Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — How Do the Newsboys Manage? [ARTICLE]

How Do the Newsboys Manage?

The names of the Russian newspapers are noted for their brevity! and the ease with which Englishspeaking people may pronounce them. Here are a few specimens: Wjedomosty Gradonatshalstwa, Olonetzkija Goubernskija, Pskoffsky Gorodskoi Listok, Jekaterinoslawsky Listok, Wastotshuoje Objaaflenij, Estlandskija Goubernsk Wjedomosty, The tongue of the newsboy, which is seemingly capable of pronouncing almost everything unintelligible, would certainly require a great deal of twisting to shout the names and latest editions of these papers. Among the various periodicals all over the world there are papers devoted to no less than eighty-two separate and distinct trades, while ol class papers and those devoted to religious dogmas, creeds and scientific theories, there are 253 distinct groups. It is an interesting fact, quite worthy of mention, that newspapers of the United States are printed in more languages than those of any other country, no less than twenty-one being used at the present time. In Austria-Hungary sixteen languages are used. In India sixteen, Russia ten, Germany four. The five principal languages used in the world’s newspapers in the order of their importance are English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.— Providence Journal.