AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 146, 20 November 1874, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.

A striking proof of the varied nationalities settled in America is afforded by the list of newspapers published in other languages than English. There are French, German, Scandinavian, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Bohemian, Portuguese, Polish, Welsh, and Cherokee newspapers. According to the new volume of the American Newspaper Directory,” German journals arc by far the most numerous. There is only one Portuguese newspaper, the Noro Jfimdo, ol Non - \ork. Illinois and Missouri have each a newspaper in Polish. The Welsh of New Turk and Philadelphia have four, and the Indians of the Indian territory one, printed in Cherokee. The extent to which newspaper reading prevails in the United States may he learnt from the fact that there are at the present time 7784 newspapers published in the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Newfoundland, of which 7380 belonged to the republic, while only 445 arc printed in the British possessions. The United (States, therefore, have 5(149 newspapers more than tlic United Kingdom, in which 1(190 only appear. New York, as might be expected, stands first among the States in the number of its publications. It issues 1055, of which 98 arc daily papers, (181 weekly, and 201 monthly. Pennsylvania has 74 daily papers, 785 weekly, and 201 monthly. Florida is the only State without a daily paper. Turning to the Dominion of Canada, we find only 4(1 daily papers, 41 monthlies, and four quarterlies. Ontario, the Protestant Province, has 255 papers, while Quebec, essentially Roman Catholic, can boast of 88. In the former, the weekly publications number 212 ; only 41 are issued in the latter.