STRANGE NEWSPAPERS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 14

STRANGE NEWSPAPERS

» : The smallest newspaper iu the world is now being printed in Ivew lork. pages are only about hy*; inches wide and six inches long, but tliey contain Short news items that are very casilj and nuicklv read. Another odd. newspaper published in this same city is called "Tho Deaf Mutes' Journal, all of its editors and general staff l)cin 0 members of a deaf and dumb school. However, "The Deaf Mutes a real newspaper m sizo nj'/l contains four pages of interesting reading. In Germauv there is a. newspaiier that has nothing in it but stones about rheumatism. People having this trouble write in their experiences, doctors tell new ways to get rid of it, and it seems that everybody there having rheumatism sub-, scribes co this queer iviwspapor. Some years ago n Eussian editor started a postcard size neivspaper, the print of which was so small that lie furnished a niagmfyin" glas to each of his reaular subscribers " Somehow the idea didn t ns he onlv printed a few numbers bet ore finding* out that the people didn t appreciate tlie idea., even though the magnifying glass was' furnished free. fireonland hasn't many newspapers, of anv kind, but the oddest of them nil is a monthly paper called "The Kalonkmit. Tho most unusual thing about this paper is that a three months' subscription costs two ducks, while it requires a sable skm to pay for a year. ■