Show FACTS ABOUT DAILY PAPERS A steady increase reported in their number in this country the latest newspaper directories show that there has been an increase every year since 1877 in the number of daily publications issued in the united states on the other hand says the cleveland leader the number of tri weeklies has now fallen to one third of what it was as far back as 1809 there lias been a gradual increase ber of publications issued semiweekly and the weekly papers have also increased though slowly of late there are fewer biweekly and semimonthly publications now than there were five years ago all of these statements it should be explained applying to the united states and canada there was a great increase in the number of publications issued monthly between 1870 and 1891 but now there are fewer of these than in 1892 and 1893 the increase over last year is small there has been a decided decrease in the number of bimonthlies since 1891 and the quarterlies have also become less numerous than they were in 1892 1893 or 1894 the dailies alone have not failed to grow in numbers every year ainee 1877 fewer publications were issued weekly in 1893 than in 1691 and since then there has been a loss one year or more than one in all kinds of periodicals except the daily paper the figures for every class as given in the rowell directory for 1895 which is just out are as follows dailies 2050 tri weeklies 40 semi weeklies weeklies lies and semimonthlies semi monthlies monthlies bimonthlies 55 quarterlies the relatively greater and more constant growth of the daily papers as compared with other classes of periodicals means that the american people are more and more hungry for the latest intelligence of the worlds doings and that the eagerness of the nation to keep in the very front of progress is more marked than ever before the improvements lately made in the telegraph the telephone and railroad service have served the daily papers well and aliey have made the most of their opportunities more and more they are becoming the typical american periodical more popular and more powerful than any other the indications are that in the future their relative multiplication and development will show even more than it has in the past their superior vitality and the leaning of the american people to the paper which is never belated and never out of date in the age of electricity the periodicals of less frequent issue than the daily paper great beautiful and popular as many of them are can hardly hold their own relatively speaking against the publications which are full of alie nervous energy the freshness and the terse strength of the telegraph |