Letting the paper fall from his hand, he aroused Hugh from the perusal of the society columns of the “Washington Reporter” by exclaiming:
“This paper is a great affair, is it not?” nodding toward the paper which had fallen to the floor by his chair.
“A very newsy paper indeed, Junius,” Hugh answered; “in fact, it is the only paper of general news in the United States.”
“How is that? Are there not other newspapers besides this?”
“Oh, plenty. But all others are published for local interests, and rarely circulate outside of their city or township.”
“And you mean to tell me that this paper is the newspaper of the whole country? It must be quite stale ere it reaches many portions of this nation.”
“Not at all. It is simultaneously printed in over five hundred different cities, and no copy has to be sent far to reach its subscriber. For instance: this copy is printed in this city; the copies for New York, in New York; and those for San Francisco, in that town.”
“But the heading reads: ‘America, September 19, 2000?’”
“That is the original paper. At America, the type is set and form made from which copies are taken and reprinted throughout the nation.”