American Publications

It is interesting to note the enormous increase the business of publishing newspapers and (periodicals has undergone in this country during the last twenty-five years. It is without parallel anywhere in the world. Sta tistics show that in 1870 there were B.871 publications; now there are 20,000, "varying from daily to quarterly." Of this total 1,885 are dallies, and 14,077 weeklies. In 1890 the aggregate capital representeil by those publlcatlons was about $105,000,000; to produce them, 106,005 ppTSons were employed; thé wages paid fv,unted to $70,000,000 per annum. while the material used cost