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the last number,” 50 an interesting illustration that the impulse to “ stop my paper ” is not of to -day. The consideration of the personality of a newspaper also in cludes the question as to how far the paper as a whole is normal and how far it must be deemed eccentric or abnormal. A long list

could be made of newspapers like " the lonesomest newspaper in America ,” - published thirty -five miles from the nearest railroad station ; the smallest daily newspaper in America ; a freak news paper printed with ink containing phosphorus so that the paper could be read in the dark ; a paper printed with non -poisonous ink

on thin sheets of dough which could be eaten ;papers published by the patients of hospitals for the insane; newspapers in the extreme north that are published once a year; newspapers for theatre

goers that go to press at 10: 30 P. M .; the " continuous-per formance" newspaper published " at all hours of the day and night that conditions and the development of newsmay warrant;" the world whose language has been developed to a point where its own characters can be used ;" papers printed on yellow silk as was the oldest Chinese newspaper, - all these are but a few of the variants from the conventional that have been noted .51 The his

torian may have a passing interest in these peculiar issues, re cording as they do the existence of peculiarities in the human mind that find expression through these channels, but he must regard them only as curiosities having a psychological rather than an historical value.

Anonymity as an element in thepersonality of the press usually centers around the question of the signed or the unsigned review , 50 Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, I, 359. The number referred to contained an article on “ Don Cevallos on the Usurpation of Spain. "

61 One of themost interesting of these unusual papers is the first number of the Sitka Times, September 19, 1868. It was written by hand, nearly all of it in red ink. Reduced in size, it is reproduced in The Pahasa pa Quar

terly (Rapid City, S. D .), April, 1916. The London Sun printed in letters of gold an account of the coronation

of Queen Victoria in 1838. The New York Independent printed a limited but sumptuous edition on white silk in honor of its twenty- first anniversary, December 2, 1869. Pre sentation copies were sent to the crowned heads of Europe, and at least two of them have found their way back to