Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-16
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The study or
packed pages of a new
reveals much that is * = y Is
amusing, and not a Etfi -
es Importance. Especial ue
in the case of newspaper nda Ire.
People often display stranger aries
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 d
great deal more practical truth in the
proverb about giving dog bad name
than in the familiar Shakspearian say
ing about ssthe rose, by any other
NAME" and when an editor confers
upon his paper a 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-
bersare the Journals, of which there
ere more than 600; many of these,
however, are magazines or publications
devoted to special subjects or interests.
There are loo medical and surgical
periodicals. in the country, of which
/ tfty ARE Journals. The News is the
name next in favor; nearly 600 papers
bear it. There are about 800 Heralds
and as many Illnesses. the great pro-
portion of them newspapers It may
be said that these. three titles are most
in vogue at present with founders
of new journals Next on the
Lief hn nd hn
sTribunes, not quite 200 of each.
with about 100 Suns and as many
Posts. AS a newspaper title, the Sun
is at a 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 tit
impartially newspaper published in
the morning or in the evening. The
Gazettes and Couriers probably follow
the eight papers already named, but
the Gouriers are going out. Consider
ing the prominent part which the tele-
graph has played in the development
OF the American newspaper there are
comparatively few 1elegraphs and
Telegrams fact, the Mails are rela-
lively more numerous. On the other
hand, there has been quite a ruk @on
the Telephones and Calls.
1t is not easy to account for local
fashions in newspaper nomenclature.
Kansas has only seven .Tribunes;
young Dako a, with a quarter of her
population, has as many. OF New
Hampshire's hundred newspapers a
dozen are Journals. Ohio probably
taxes the lead in the matter of political
names. having twenty-six Republicans
to forty-tive democrats, while there are
fifteen Independents. In the case of
ALMOST every prominent American jour
nal thus distinguished, the whirligig of
time has not failed to bring in his re-
venge. The ST. Louis Uemocrat is a
Republican; SO is the Rochester Denao7
crOt; the st. Louis Republtc09 is "a
Democratic paper; SO is the Rochester
Repu6 icGn. Every tenth paper in
Kentucky is a News Louisiana has
just over a hundred papers, and this,
short listincludes seyenty-two different
names, fifty-sM of the Journals of the
Pelican State enjoying within its bor7
ders a monopoly of the titles which they
bear On the other hand. Vermont
publishes less than sixty periodicals,
and of these a fourth bear the name of
the State, while twelve of Arlzona's
twenty-three papers commemorate the
territory in which they appear.-Caa-
cL0O Times ~