, 1884-11-07
The Democratic Leader.
FRIDAY. NovEMpER7 Z, IsS4.
NEWSPAPER NOMENCLATURE.
A Quarter OF Our Periodicals ciassed
Under Ten Tftfes.

Chicago Times.l
The study OF the 1900 packed pages OF an
American Newspaper directory reveals much
that is interesting and amusing. and not q
little that Possesses Importance. Especially
Is this 80 Ia the casa of ~nswspapsr nomeucla~
ture. People often display strangs vagaries
when selecting names for their children.
thoir dwellings, their vessels, pa the horses
that are within their stable gatas, but It L
when standing sponsors for newspaper that
they giv0 tho freest rein TO their originality.
Thsro Is q great deal more practical truth In
the proyerb about giving a dog a bad name
than In the familiar Shakesperean aging
about ~ths ross, by any other nAma." and
when an editor confers upon his paper a title
which IL vulgar or ridiculous he invariably
lessons its prestige and influence.
Not that the great majority Of periodicals
In the United States do not bear rational and
businesslike names; they do. Fully . guar
tor OF them are 10 DO chased under ten utles-
First in number are the Journals, OF which
there are more than $50; many of these.
however, arc magazines or publications de-
voted to special subjects or INTEREST," There
arc 100 medical and surgical periodicals In the
country, OF which 90 are Journals. The
News is the next ia favor; nearly 800 paper
benr II. There are about 500 Heralds and
as many Timeses, the great proportion OF
them newspapers. 1t may be said that these
three titles are most in vogue at present
with founders Of new journals. Next on the
list come the Presses and Tribunes, not quite
700 Of each, with about 100 Suns and As
many Posts. As u newspaper title. the Sun
h at a disadvantage; It Is peculiarly a name
FOR a daily Journal, and a morning paper at
that In this respect the Star Is morn for
tunate, since II will at impartially . news
paper published In the morning or In tho
evening. The Gnzettes and Couriers prob
ably follow the eight papers already named,
but the Couriers are going out Considering
tho prominent part which the telegraph has
played In the development OF the American
Newspaper, there are comparatively few
Telegraphs and Telcgrans-in fact, the
Mails are relatively more numerous On
the other hand, there has been quite a run
on Telephones and Calls.
1t Is not easy to account for local fashions In
Newspaper nomenclature. Kansas has only
seven Trfbunes; young Dakota. with a quar-
Ter Of her population, has as many. OF New
HampshirS's hundred newspapers q dozen are
Journals. Ohio probably takes the lead in
political names, having tmenty-siK Republ-
cans to forty-nve Democrats, while there are
fifteen independents Tho growth In popu-
larity Of the last name In worth noting. In
the case OF almost every prominent Amer1-
can Journal thus distinguished, the whirla-
zig Of time has not failed to bring In his re-
venge. Every tenth paper In Kentucky IL a
News. Louisiana has just over u hundred
papers, and this short list includes seventy
two different names. hfty-siz Of the journals
OF the Pelican state enjoying within Its bor-
ders a monopoly OF the titles which they boar.
On the other hAnd Vermont publishes less
than sixty periodicals, and OF these q fourth
bear the name OF the state, while twelve Of
Arizona's twenty three papers commemorate
the territory in which they appear.