Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls

We will suppose that it is a great newspaper, in a great city, printing daily 25, 000, or more, copies. Here it is, with wide columns, with small, compact type, with very little space wasted in head lines, eight large pages of it, something like 100, 000 words printed upon it, and sold for four cents—25, 000 words for a cent. It is a great institution—a power greater than a hundred banking-houses, than a hundred politicians, than a hundred clergymen.