The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-02-06
Newspaper Nomenclature.

The study of thirteen hundred
packed pages of a 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 anding sponsors
for newspapers that they give the freest
rein to their originality. There is
great deal more practical truth in the
proverb about giving dog bad name
than in the familiar Shakspearian say
ing about ''the rose, by any other
name," and when an editor confers
upon his paper title which isvulgar or
ridiculous he invariably lessons its
presti e and influence.
Not that the great minority OF period
icals in the United States do not bear
rational and busineSs-l 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 sub: ects or interests.
There are loo medical and surgi nj
period Gals in the country, of which
fifty are Journals. The News is the
name next in favor; nearly GOO papers
bear it. There are about 500 Heralds
and as many Illnesses, tie great pro-
portion of them newspapers 1t may
be said that these three titles are most
-, 1ax
of new journals. Next on the
list come the Presses and the
Tribunes, not quite 200 of each.
with about 100 Suns and as many
Posts. As newspaper title, the 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 Tit
impartially n newspaper published in
the morning or in the even ng. The
Galettes and Couriers probably follow
the eight papers already named, but
the Courisrs 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
kilograms lin fact, the Mails are rela-
lively more numerous. On the other
hand, there has been quite run on
the Telephones and Calls.
1t is not easy to account for 10 al
fashions i'm newspaper nomenclature.
Kansas has only seven Tribunes;
young Dako q, 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 democrats, while there are
fifteen Independents. In the ,ase 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 Democrat is q
Republican; SO is the Rochester Demo
crdt, the St. Louis Republican is a
Democratic paper; so is the Rochester
Rcpub ican. Every tenth paper in
kentucky is News. Louisiana has
Just over hundred papers, and this
short list includes seventy-two different
names, fifty-six of the journals of the
Pc lean State enjoying within its bor
ders monopoly Of the titles which they
bear On the other hand. Vermont
j publishes less than sixty periodicals.,
and of these fourth bear the name of
| the State, while twelve of Arizona s
twenty three papers commemorate the
territory in which they appear.-Chs-
tago Tines.