STATISTIC'S. ACeOnlillg to estimates at the close of the year 1900. the total number of news papers published in the world was about 50.000 (an increase of 10,000 (hiring the previous ten years), distributed as follows: United States and Canada, 21,789; Germany, 7000; Great Brit ain. 9000: France, 4300: Japan, 2000: Italy, 1500; Austria-Hungary, 1200; Asia. exclusive of (Japan, 1000; Spain, 850: Russia, SOO; Aus tralia, SOO; Greece, 600; Switzerland, 450; Hol land. 200; Belgium, 300; all others, 1000, Of the 21,789 estimated for the United States and Canada, only 924 were published in Canada. According to frequency of issue, they ran thus: weekly. 15.375; monthly. 2930; daily, 2279; semi-monthly. 296; semi-weekly. 470; quarterly, I so: bi-weckly, bi-monthly.68; tri-weekly, 52. The number for each State and Territory in the United States was as follows: Alabama, 231; Alaska. 9: Arizona, 54; Arkansas, 257: Cali fornia. 698; Colorado, 326; Connecticut, 190; Delaware. 42; District of Columbia, 82; Florida, 159; Georgia. 362: Hawaii, 26; Idaho, 70; Illi nois. 1706; Indian Territory. 64; 'Indiana, 859: Iowa, 1073; Kansas, 703; Kentucky, 314; Louisi ana. 192: Maine. 154; Maryland, ; Massa chusetts. 018; Michigan, 790: Minnesota. 653; Mississippi, 222; Missouri. 1033; :Montana, 92: Nebraska, 617; Nevada. 30; New Hampshire, 105: New Jersey, 384: New Mexico. 52: New York. 2032; North Carolina, 235; North Da kota, 153; Ohio. 1217; Oklahoma, 125: Oregon, 102: Pennsylvania. 1403: Porto Rico, 7: Rhode Island, 59; South Carolina. 128; South Dakota, 267; Tennessee. 289; Texas, 794 ; Utah. 77; Ver mont, 75; Virginia. 240: Washington. 221; \Vest Virginia, ISO; Wisconsin, 642: Wyoming, 41.
The fullest analysis ever made of the C0111 moreial side of newspapers for any one country appeared in the United States Census Report for 1900. It varies considerably from the figures compiled by advertising ageneies in the number of periodicals, because the latter contain numer ous transitory publications of small consequence.
The growth of the periodical press in the United States during the last half-century is best shown by the following table: from 1690 to 1872 (New York, 1S73). Hudson gives much information in regard to foreign jour nalism. The A wrican Weekly Mercury for 1719 21, the first American newspaper in the middle colonies, was reprinted by the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania in 1898. For England. consult Grant, The SeIrspaper Press (London. 1871-721 ; Pebody, Engli.sh Journalism (ib., 1882), a brief account; Jackson, The Pictorial Press (ib., 1885) ; Andrews, history of British Journal ism (ib., 1859) : Fox Bourne, English Nezrs papers (ib., 1887) ; and the catalogue of the British Museum. Full statistics are given for each year in Sc//'s Dictionary of the World's Press (London). Ayers and Rowell's Xeirspaper Directoric,s, give statistics for the 'United States and Canada. United States Cen sus Reports are most trustworthy. For the Con. see llatin, Histoire politiquc ct lit teTaire de la press(' en France (S vol,;., Pa ris, 1859-61) ; and Les Gazettes (le Hollande it la presse clandestine aux ct slick's (Paris, 1S65) ; Warz6e, Essai historique t critique des jourAatx beiges (Client. 1845) ; Larousse, Grund Dietio,nmire L'aircrsr/ (15 N.01,., 1866-76; supplements 1878-90), which describes under separate heads the most important jour nals; Salomon, Geschichte des deutsche)? Zei tungslresens, vol. i. (Leipzig. 1900) ; and the German encyclopedias, especially Brockhaus's Konrersations-Lexikon (Leipzig). See also JOUR NALISM, COLLEGE; PERIODICAL; and l'ulYrixo.