THE LATEST THING IN NEWSPAPERS.
There are many newspaper ventures nowadays (writes Atticus in the “ Leader”). Not a sect but has its particular journal, not an industry but owns a newspaper affiliated to its interests. Perhaps, however, the “ Railway Times ” may be held to mark a new era in literature. A copy of this paper is now lying before me. It contains the latest news of home and foreign politics, the money market, Parliamentary debates, and theatrical and musical events. It is printed in the train running between Now York and San Francisco. News is telegraphed from different parts of the States to certain stations on the line, and these are collected by the editorial staff attached to the train. A printing press works in a carriage set apart for it, and the traveller has his newspaper every morning at breakfast during each day of his week’s journey. I should like to hear Dr. Richardson discourse upon the “ expectation of life ” which the editors and printers of this journal would have. Newspaper work is exhausting enough at any time, but I should say that, performed in a vibrating railway car, it would speedily make itself seriously felt. But the greedy public wants its news, and eo gets it. The more you give that insatiate monster the more he wants.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1884, 8 March 1880, Page 3
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219THE LATEST THING IN NEWSPAPERS. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1884, 8 March 1880, Page 3
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