ually from the
Boston press, is given in Shattuck's "Census of Boston," published by the
city in the year 1846.

Class of Publications. Number. Square inches. Value.
Daily subscription 5,075,320 4,786,029,240 $106,076
Daily penny 11,408,000 7,018,617,000 110,400
Semi-weekly 1,460,448 1,442,010,336 58,748
Weekly 11,610,040 8,738,546,856 334,895
Semi-monthly 458,400 216,314,000 31,700
Monthly 2,583,600 1,522,477,200 127,100
Two months and quarterly 37,200 143,076,800 24,500
Annual 255,500 265,045,300 31,565
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Total 32,890,508 24,132,117,132 $825,074

Here are 32,890,508 publications issued annually, averaging 109,098 daily,
and containing 3847 acres of printed sheets, or about twelve acres per
day. The newspapers alone, daily, semi-weekly and weekly, are 29,555,808,
producing $610,119 per annum. Add the semi-monthly issues, which are
mostly newspapers, and you have thirty millions of newspapers issued in
Boston alone, being nearly fifty-five per cent. of the whole number mailed
throughout the union.

A newspaper of the common size, say 38 by 24 inches, or 912 square inches,
will weigh from 1-1/4 to 1-{~VULGAR FRACTION ONE THIRD~} oz. with the wrapper, in the damp state in
which it is usually mailed. The New York Journal of Commerce, 28 by 46
inches, that is, 1288 square inches, weighs a little short of 2 oz. as
mailed. A lot of 100 papers received in exchange by a publisher, weighed
1.2 oz., that is less than an ounce and a quarter. The average weight of
all the newspapers published in the country is believed to be one ounce
and a half; which would give 1066 newspapers to every 100 lbs. weight.

The number of newspapers sent by mail was estimated in 1837, by Postmaster
Kendall, as follows:

Newspapers paying postage 25,000,000
Free and dead papers 4,000,000
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Total 29,000,000

The report in 1847, by Postmaster Johnson, estimates the paying newspapers
at fifty-five millions, dead papers two millions, and the pamphlets two
millions, being fifty-nine millions in all; paying postage to the amount
of $643,160, being an increase over the preceding year,