Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1876 — Newspapers at the Centennial. [ARTICLE]

Newspapers at the Centennial.

The Special Correspondent of the London Time* says it would to difficult to find ao apter illustration of the big way in which the American* <fo things than that fureiehed by the ‘’UeritetiiHal Newspaper Btfiltflag,*' in the Exhibition grounds. Here you may see any one, or, if you like, all of the 8,129 newspapers published regularly in the United States, and see them, one and all, for nothing! You are not only permitted as a fitvor to see them, but invited, nay pressed, to confer the fevor of entering the building and calling for what paper you like, ft is about as cool and agreeable a place—quite apart from its literary attractions—as a visitor to the Exhibition could wish to be offered a chair in. He may at first wonder how, among 8,000 papers, among them such mighty sheet* aa New York Herald, he is to get at the small, loved print of his home, thousands of mile# away, it may be, ova the Rocky Mountains. But the management is so simple that, by consulting the catalogue, or even without the aid of the catalogue, any one can at once find whatever paper he wants. They are pigeon-holed on shelvee in the alphabetieal order of their States or Territories and their towns, tho n ines of which are clearly labelled oh the shelves. The proprietors of the Centennial Newspaper Buildimr are advertising agents, the largest in all America —Messrs. G. P, Rowell & Co., of New York.- Their eaterprise wiU cost altogether about <-20,000, or £4,000, including the building and the expenses of “running” it for six months. The 8,000 and odd American newspapers are declared, by the same authority, to exceed “the combined issues cf all the other nations of the earth.”