Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — Sick of Huge Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

Sick of Huge Newspapers.

Springfield Republican. A St. Loujs paper boasts that it used eighty miles of paper in one day’s edition—and with more “padding” there could have been more boasting. The manifold supplements to Western news papers, by which an eight-page sheet is extended to 16, 20 or even 32 pages, have fairly become a public griovance, but it looks as if their days were numbered. There is univesal complaint among readers, and this, and the successes recently made by some small papers, seems to be teaching alesson. The Chicago Times which intqduced the fashion of big supplements, along with a good many other things peculiar to Western journalism, is now sticking pretty closely ito its legitimate eight Eages, and the Western ope that the day of more editing and less space, more news and less words, is near at hand. The Times will also take another step toward Eastern models by discontinuing the use of circus poster type in its advertising columns, In speaking of fire-proof buildings, the American Architect says: ..“The ordinary so-called fire-proof structures, consiting of a granite shell enclosing naked iron beams, carrying brick arches, and supported by ; unprotected cast-iron colums. in point of security against fire are little better than frames of timber and plank, and far inferior to timber frames coveredjwith wire cloth and plastered.” Fobty-six new cases of small-pox were reported in Cincinnati last week.