The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-14
1.-THE THUNOERER."


Founded on the lst of January, 1885,
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
rarcr is it, in both cases, for the hun
dredth anniversary to be attained with
out any trace or token of decrepltude
and decay. There is but one London
morning journal which, having lived
for upward of a century, continues
brimful Of life and yigor, which is even
more luSty and energetic now than in
earlier days and bids fair to see sue
ceedng centuries pass over its head.
This is the .UorRjHg Post, which. was
founded i'll 1772 with the title of the
M0rWiRG Post and Generak Adrertiser.
Other London morning journals. enjoy
ing boundiess circulation and an un-
precedented popularity. are compare
lively young. The Oldest among them is
the HorRtt2g AdUerJjScr, which is aged
ninety: the Youngest is the Standard.
which is only twenty-eight. The Daily
NerS has lived and exercised world
wide influence for thirty-nine years !:
the DalIY Telegraph and Daily CwoRi-
cite for thirty. Newspapers, like human
beings, 'have their day and cease to
be, and in the cases of both their dis
appearance seems often untimely and
incomprehensible Not many years AGO
the .RorRjRg Hcrdld and the lIornj8n
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 ablest pens of the day CON
tributed to their columns. Both Jour
mails appeared to be indispensable to
large section of the reading public. and
both enjoyed the favor OF many adver-
tisers, when they rapidly dccayed and
passed away. For many years the
Morning star twinkled brightly in the
journalistic armament, yet its light was
suddenly quenched. Others. such as
the Representative and the Mirror, the
Constitutional, the Day, and the Hour.
expired after very short struggle for
existence Though the first number of
the Times was published on the 1st of
January. 1875, yet the journal was not
called by its present name till the APP
pearance of its 940th number on the
LIST of January, 1888. 1t was then no
unusual thing for an established news
paper to assume new face. For in
stance, the Public AdCertjScr, to which
"Junius" contributed. was first known
as the London Dajig Post ami General
AdUertjSer, next as the General -Adrer-
tjSer, and lastly by the title which is
now familiar. The Morning Post has
dropped half of its original designation.
For the first three years of its existence
the Times was styled the Dajig Uni
GerSdi Register. On the oath of Deem
Der. 1897, the following intimation was
made to its readers: various reasons
having occurred since the first publca-
ton of the U@jccrSai Register which
render it essentially necessary to change
the present title, we respectfully inform
our readers that on the lst 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 "1he D0iiy Universal register,
printed geographically by His Ma
iesty's patent" there was substituted
the following: "Ihe Times, or Ddily
+ GnjrerSa} Register, printed Topographic
ally. 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. The Nine
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