Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-11-28
Newspaper Nomenclature.

The study of thirteen hundred
packed pages Of q newspaper directory
reveals much that is interesting and
amusing. and not little that possess
es importance. Especially is this true
in the case of newspaper nomenclature.
People often display strange vagaries
when selecting names for their chill
dren, their. dwellings their vessels, or
the horses that are within their stable
gates, but it is when Standing sponsors
for newspapers that they give the freest
rein TO their originality. There is a
great deal more practical truth in the
proverb about giving q dog a bad name
than in the familiar Shakspearian say
ing about 1.-THE rose, by any other
name," and when an editor confcrs
upon his paper title which is vulgar or
ridiculous he invariably lessons its
prestige and influence.
Not that the great minority OF period
icals in the United States do not bear
rational and business-like names; they
do. Fully quarter of them are to be
classed under ten titles. First in num-
Der are the Journals, of which there
are more than 60; many of these,
however, are magazin or publications
devoted to special subjects or interests.
There are loo medical and surgical
period Gals in the country, of which
I fly are Journals. The News is the
name next in favor; nearly GOO papers
bear it. There are about 500 Heralds
and as many Illnesses, tho great pro-
portion of them newspapers 1t may
be said that these three titles are most
in vogue at present with founders
De =.
list come the Presses and the
Tribuncs, not quite 200 of each.
with about 100 Suns and as many
Fo>t.. AS \ newspaper title, tho Sun
is at disadvantage; 1t is peculiarly a
name for daily journal, and morn
ing paper at that. In this respect the
Star is more fortunate. since it will fit
impartially newspaper published in
the morning or in the evening. The
GaHctteS and COuriers probably follow
the eight papers already named, but
the COuriers are going out. Consider
ing the prominent part which the tele-
graph has played in the development
o! the American newspaper, there are
comparatively few 1'eiegraphs and
kilograms in 'act, the Mails are rcla-
lively more numerous. On the other
hand, there has been quite run on
the 1elephOnes and Calls.
Il is not easy to account for 10 al
fashions in newspaper nomenclature.
Kansas has only seven Tribunes;
young Eako a, with quarter of her
population, has as many. OF New
Hampshire's hundred newspapers a
dozen are Journals. Chic probably
taxes the lead in the matter of political
names, having twenty-six Republicans
TO forty-five Lemocrats, while there are
fifteen Independents. In the case of
almost every prominent American Jour
nal thus distinguished, the whirligiy of
time has not fa lcd to bring ia his 10
vengo. The St Louis Democrat is a
Republican; SO is the Rochester Demo
crdt. the St. Louis Republican, is a
nemoc cotic paper; so is the Rochester
Re: sI6 icdss. Every tenth paper in
kentucky is News. Louisiaia has
just over hundred papers, and this
short list includes seventy-two different
names, fifiy-six of the journals of the
Pelican State enjoying within its boz
ders monopoly of the titles which they
bear. On the other hand. Vermont
publishes less than sixty periodicals,
and of these u fourth bear the name OF
the State, while twelve of Arizona s
twenty-three papers commemorate the
territory in which they appear. - Ch:.
td1O inns