QUEER NEWSPAPERS

Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 3

QUEER NEWSPAPERS

FLYCATCHER WITH TEH LINES A newspaper with only ten lines of news is certainly a novelty. Such a paper enjoyed, many years ago, a large circulation in some parts of finance. it was very small, and the inner pages were smeared with a sticky lluid. Tho editor explained that as the inhabitants of tho district in which it was circulated were too much employed in the fields to have any time to read, the important news was condensed into ten lines. It was intended that the paper should be used as a flycatcher. ‘ Berthold's Political Handkerchief ’ was another unusual journal. It was published in 1831, and was printed on calico. Having read the paper, all that it was necessary to do was to wash it, and then use it as a handkerchief. Not very many years ago, during an epidemic of influenza, ‘ Answers ’ published an issue, every copy of which had been soaked in eucalyptus. During a printers’ strilso in New York ten different papers were combined in one publication. This bore tho names of ten periodicals at tho head of the first sheet. ‘ L’Organe Official dcs Cents Kilos ’ was a paper published in Liege, Belgium, especially for fat people. Most of its readers weighed more than 16st, and prizes were offered for outstanding avoirdupois. The largest paper ever published, however, is probably the ‘ Illuminated Quadruple Constellation,’ which first appeared in Now York in 1859. It measures BJft by 6ft. _ The editor 'apparently has to give his readers enough reading matter to last, for the I.Q.C. is published only once in every hundred years! •