CHAPTER XII.

THE NEWSPAPER.

Starting the Third Newspaper in America--Opposition to it--Number of Newspapers now--Forty Million Sheets from Eight Presses--Seventy-one Miles a day of Newspapers from One Office--Almost enough to reach around the Earth in a Year--Weigh these Papers--Four Million Pounds in a Year--Two Thousand Two-Horse Loads--The New England Courant started--Printer, News-carrier, and Collector--The Club--Incited to write an Article--Tucks it under Printing-office Door--Hears it favourably commented on--Writes other Articles--This an Incident that decides his Career--Canning at Eton and the "Microcosm"--Similar Paper in Seminaries now 114-122