Show SOMETHING ABOUT newspapers A gentleman of the east the other day was vi as talking about the romance of jour journalism nall sm and here are some of his remarks kot not long ago I 1 we went nt carefully over one of our papers paper sPIt it contained exclusive of all advertising advert ing dil different Terent items on almost every subject imaginable lo 10 adding the distances that the different dispatches had traveled that result was a total of miles what worl work all this entails I 1 in the short 8 pace of a dozen hours will have to be left to the imagination and yet ct it is but a daily incident of journalism at tho close of the revolution there were 1 in tins this country forty three papers ft hose aggregate circulation was very lo 10 low in the thousands now there aro are newspaper publications which print and distribute every year ear copies or over two copies for cery every man woman and child in the tile world if you want to carry out the tile figures you will find that the tile newspapers of this country print cery every year ear tile rather comfortable total of nearly neatly 00 00 bow words of matter if one PC re on were to read twelve hours a day ho he would be a good many thousand years old before he got through this mass it if sir mr kider rider she tile wo wonderful darful woman who waited w ailed 2000 yea years rs for a oung young man T without becoming an old maid had set out to read as many nc newspapers shapers as are publish published ea in this country lu in twelve months eho would not hae been half way through her task when the young man arrived and probably not that far as eho she might have advertised for him w m ith the uati result from I 1 rom presses that mado made impressions an hour less than a century ago m wo a have wonderful pieces of mechanism that from a continuous roll of paper cut print and fold complete copies copie of a newspaper every sixty minutes minu tee presses are now being built that anvill w ill run a mile a minute and the day is not fir far distant when m ben wo we will lave bave machines that will run that mile and turn out 2000 newspapers in less than contrast the newspaper w ith tho the newspaper present comp a re its yesterday and its today to day place its performance alongside the greatest feats of invention aud and progress and wo we have a result that Is a romance of enterprise an achievement of hu man effort beyond the rosiest dreame dreams of our ancestors A journalists exclaimed napoleon le on 1 I that means a grumbler a censurer a giver of advice a regent of sovereigns a tutor of nations four hostile newspapers are more to bo be dreaded than bayoneta bayonets |