Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — The World’s Reading. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Reading.

It is estimated that in England on an average each person spends $2.25 a year on books, periodicals, newspapers and so on, which would give a total of about $85,000,000. Some statistician has gone so far as to calculate that the aggregate annual circulation of the world Is about 12,000,000,000 copies of printed matter of every kind, for which 781,250 tons of paper is used. • The height 5f tyranny—To arrest a brook because it murmurs. A mutton-headed doctor always has his sheepskin with him.