CHICAGO NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION.
Aurora, Ill.
To settle a dispute, state which of the Chicago newspapers has the largest circulation.
Conover.
Answer.—The only criterion of newspaper circulation which there is absolutely no means of successfully disputing is the amount of postage paid on papers sent to actual subscribers. Below is given the amounts of postage paid on such circulation by each of the Chicago newspapers here named during the fiscal year ending June, 30, 1882:
| The Inter Ocean | $19,609.30 |
| The News | 7,289.14 |
| The Times | 6,581.10 |
| The Tribune | 5,644.54 |
| The Herald | 1,443.68 |
For circulation of papers outside of the mails there is nothing that can be regarded as an impartial standard of comparison; nothing which affords the reading and advertising public such unequivocal testimony as the above, but every intelligent person will naturally conclude that the proportions of circulation through the mails and outside of the mails will not differ very greatly.
TO POLISH SEA-SHELLS.