About two hundred years have gone since the publication of the first number of the first American newspaper. It was a monthly, called _Publick Occurrences, both Foreign and Domestic_, first printed September 25, 1690, by Richard Pierce, and founded by Benjamin Harris. At that time public favor did seem to control newspaper interests, for that first paper aroused antagonism, and it was almost immediately suppressed by the authorities. Only one copy of it is now in existence, and that is in London. The first newspaper to live, in this country, was the Boston _News Letter_, first issued in 1704 and continued until 1776. New York's first newspaper, the New York _Gazette_, appeared October 16, 1725. At the outbreak of the revolution there were 37 newspapers, and in 1800 there were 200, of which several were dailies. In 1890 there were 17,760, of which there were 13,164 weeklies, 2,191 monthlies, 1,626 dailies, 280 semi-monthlies, 217 semi-weeklies, 126 quarterlies, 82 bi-weeklies, 38 bi-monthlies, and 36 tri-weeklies. The circulations belong largely to the weeklies, monthlies and dailies, the weeklies having 23,228,750, the monthlies 9,245,750, the dailies 6,653,250, leaving only 2,400,000 for all the others. The largest definitely ascertainable daily average circulation for one year, in this country, has been 222,745. Only one other daily paper in the world has had more--_Le Petit Journal_, in Paris, which really, as we understand it, is not a newspaper, but which regularly prints and sells for one sou more than 750,000 copies. The largest American weekly is the _Youth's Companion,_ Boston, 461,470. The largest monthly is the _Ladies' Home Journal_, Philadelphia, 542,000. The largest among the better known magazines is the _Century_, 200,000. Of the daily papers which directly interest us--those of the city of New York--the actual or approximate daily averages of the morning papers are given by "Dauchy's Newspaper Catalogue" for 1891, as follows: _Tribune_, daily, 80,000; Sunday, 85,000. _Times_, daily, 40,000; Sunday, 55,000. _Herald_, daily, 100,000; Sunday, 120,000. _Morning Journal_, 200,000. _Press_, daily, 85,000; Sunday, 45,000. _Sun_, daily, 90,000; Sunday, 120,000. _World_, daily, 182,000; Sunday, 275,000. Of the afternoon papers, _Commercial Advertiser_, 15,000; _Evening Post_, 18,000; _Telegram_, 25,000; _Graphic_ (not the old, but a new one), 10,000; _Mail and Express_, 40,000; _News_, 173,000; _Evening Sun_, 50,000; _Evening World_, 168,000. The entire circulation of New York dailies, including with those named others of minor importance, and the German, French, Italian, Bohemian, Hebrew and Spanish daily newspapers, is 1,540,200 copies.