Show The Spanish Nightcap La Correspondencia of Madrid Spain has the largest circulation of any paper published at the capital Everybody reads it and from the universality of its perusal it is facetiously called the Spanish Span-ish Nightcap because no one is supposed sup-posed to have gone to bed without having hav-ing read it entirely through And it must be read through for it is the most extraordinary extra-ordinary hodgepodge and ollapodrida ever printed as a newspaper It is a newspaper rather than a paper of opinion opin-ion The staft consists of a dozen bright reporters and an editor The reporters scour the capital and pick up every item of interestcabinet resignations the accident ac-cident to your washerwoman the illness of the king the latest earthquake news the price of eggs the opening of the new cafe a Carlist rising in the north the burglary of a shop an excursion partys adventures in the mountains the latest club scandal the running away of a horse a convention of wine merchants everything in fact that occurs and can be put in print This is La Correspon dencia It is all set and all printed without with-out any regard to order or typographical display You read it because you know I that in its crowded columns is everything of note occurring at the capital You read every line for if you skip at all the very bit of news you want may be the one skipped The circulation of this is rated at two hundred thousand paper daily and on occasions at three hundred thousand |