NEWSPAPERS A LA CARTE.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 90, 8 November 1907, Page 7

NEWSPAPERS A LA CARTE.

- - F N In an Italian work which has lately been published, the author, Signor Buovino, gives some curious of some absurd methods which certain short-lived newspapers have been! known to adopt in the hope of securing subscribers. Thus a Spanish paper, the “Luminaria,” offered tc its readers lines which, if not luminous with wit, were at least so by, the the aid of a phosphorescent ink. This, it was held, would make the paper invaluable, as one could read it in the dark —a great attraction to sufferers from insomania. More wonderful still was an Italian' journal which was printed on a kind of very thin pastry, so that, the contents mentally digested, one might eat one’s newspaper, and try how it agreed with one’s physical digestion.

The “Bathers’ Courier” and the “Naiad,” which appeared ini the mid- ■ die of the ninetqpiith century, were t printed on impermeable paper, so that they might be read while sitting in the water. But it is to be feared, from the very brief existence enjoyed by these well-intentioned journals that baths were but rare luxuries at that epoch. Finally, our author states that there exists in Scandinavia at the present day a'newspaper so strong that a rope can be made of it, and utilitarians have been found to hang themselves with it,;