The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-12
1.-THE THuNDERER."
The London Times Reaches the End OF
Its First Century.


Founded on the 1st of January, 1875,
the Times has reached the hundredth
year OF its existence. To survive to so
great an age is as rare among newspa-
pers as it is among human beings, still
rarer is it, in both cases, for the hun
dredth anniversary to be attained with
out any trace or token of decrepitude
and decay. There is but one London
morning journal which, having lived
for upward of a century, continues
brimful of life and vigor, which is even
more lusty and energetic now than in
earlier days and bids fair to see sue
ceeding centuries pass over its head.
This is the Morning Post, which was
founded in 1772 with the title of the
Morning Post and General Adrertiser.
Other London morning journals. enjoy
ing a bOundless circulation and an I'M
precedented popularity, are compara-
lively young. The oldest among them is
the Morning AdCertiser, which is aged
ninety: the youngest is the Standard,
which is only twenty-eight. The DAILY
Netcs has lived and exercised world
wide influence for thirty-nine wears
the Ddity Telegraph and Daily CirORi-
Gle for thirty. Newspapers, like human
beings, have their day and cease to
be, and in the cases of both their dis
appearance seems often untimelv and
incomprehensible. Not many years ago
the Morning Herald and the n0rning
Chronicle were, to all appearances, as
popular and powerful as several of the
contemporaries which have survived
them. Their conductors were. enter
prising and untiring in collecting news:
the ablcst pens of the day con-
tributed to their columns. Both Jour
nails appeared to be indispensable to a
large section of the reading public. and
both enjoyed the favor of many adver-
Users. when they rapidly decaved and
passed AWAY For MANY wears the
Morning star twinkled brightly in the
Journalistic armament, vet its light was
suddenly quenched- Others. such as
the Representatives. and the Mirror, the
Constitutional, the Day, and the Hour,
expired after a very short struggle for
existence. Though the first number of
the Times was published on the lst of
January, 1875, yet the journal was not
called by its present name till the APP
pearance of its 94Oth number on the
LIST OF January. 1888. 1t was then no
unusual thing for an established news
paper to assume a new face. For in
stance, the PWjLic Adrertiser. to which
''Juniusn contributed. was first known
as the London Dniiy Post and General
-1dccrtjSer, next as the General Adrer-
ttSer, and lastly by the title which is
now familiar. The MorRiRg Post has
dropped half of its original designation.
For the first three wears of its existence
the Times was styled the Dai'g Uni
rcrsm Register. On the oath of Decem-
Der, 1877, the following intimation was
made to its readers: Various reasons
having occurred since the first pubIica-
ton of the JRicCrS0L RcqiSter which
render il essentially necessary to change
the present title. we respectfully inform
our readers that on the LIST of January
next it will appear with an entire new
set of features under the title of the
Times. Thus, for the first title. which
was ''Ihc Daily TRirerSm RcqiSter,
printed geographically. by His Ma
the following: "The Times, or Dailt
UnjrerSai Register, printed Biographies
allv." The last number of the journal
under its old title does not materially
differ from the earlier ones under its
new one, nor at the outset was there a
marked superiority of the new journal
over its contemporaries Nine
tccRh Century.