MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 24 May 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

r oar g eat progress in journalism ta, } shown by the fact tlist in 1775 there * were in (he United States lesa than forty newspapers and periodicals, whose aggregate issue for that year comprised, 1 20f>, ' (100 copies ; now the united press "pu! - |. lishes over 500 daily newspapers, more [. than 4000 weeklies, and about 6oo monthly I publications ;of the dailies that existed , in 1870, about 800,000,{J00 copies were , "truck off that year ; and cf the weeklies about 600,000,000; and of other serial publications about 100 000,000, amounting in all *o 1,500,000,000 copies. And to sum the matter up yet more forcibly it ronst be stated that the United States publishes more newspapers, with greater combined circulation, than all the ofher countries of the world can boast of having. The oldest paper of uninterrupted publication in this country is the Hartford Courant, which has already attained the hoary age of 110 years. It regard to its last birthday it plaintive'y sajs, * We believe that .with the already announced death of a New Hampshiie paper, recently, at the age of 116, we are ?e f t in a condition of absolute isolation. The last of onr early contemporaries is gone." — San Francisco Call. A malicious story is cut-rent in London concerning the exceeding patronage Baroness BurdettsCoutts bestows upon Irving, the tragedian. It is said that the Baroness, hearing that there was discontent in the servants' hall, so that, in fact, the whole corps had determined to leave, 1 sent for the butler and inquired, " Now, Jones, what does it mean?" BuUer: "' Beggin ' yj^^^kbip's pardon. Which weJyuaj^^^^^^^^rcplain our conduct, . to make. We j^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^wiery Irvin at day nor do at lunch miss ; n>* Enerv Irvin at lives. But what hobject to is, one of us has a wfl^^HJ^^^K 6 ' should be expected togol^tD^fess suckle of the Lyceum and clap continuous* New York Journal of Ommeree slates that according to the official reports, the . total number of imnrgrsn^s who tame to •he United States between 1820 am 18 d both years included, was 8 933 215 and of this numHer, 8 553 433 came from Eump«» Of the European immigrants, 4.904.J53 or 5)3 per cpn*, were from the Frti«h Isles— vz. 3T.32 682 came From Irish nnrts, 951 331 from English, and 149 319 from Pettish. Germinv sent 2,948 612, Au«tm-Hungary 60 222, Switzerland, 80,962, Frnree, 310,053 of whom, at Ipjjsf. a forth were from Alssee. The T?n««nnn immigrants are set down at 36 030, but of these 20,000. must be con« sidered Germans either Mennonities or coming fr >m the Suibiae colonips r ear Odessa. Poles fignre at 14.223. Sweden at d Norway sent 254 462. Penn^ark, tt,692. Italy 62 874. the Neiherlan is, 43,425, Belgiom, 22,319, Portugal and. Spain 8,438. I'he immigrants from Asia are put down at 219,791.