Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — The World’s Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Newspapers.

Tha total nhmber of copies of newspapers printed throughout (he world in one year is estimated at 12,CjP0,00(),QJ(|| To print these requires 781,200 tons of papsr. The oldest newspaper is said to be the ‘Kin-Pau,’ of Pekin, which lias been published continually for over 1,000 years.