The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-09
1.-THE THUNDERER."
The London Times Reaches the End
Its First Century.

| The London Times Reaches tho End of
| Its First Century.
Founded on the LIST 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
rarer 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
Tor upward OF century, continues
Drlmful 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 1872 with the title of the
Morning Post and General advertiser.
Other London morning journals, enjoy
ing boundless circulation and an I'M
precedented popularity, are compare
lively young. The oldest among them is
the Morning advertiser, which is aged
ninety; the youngest is the Standard.
which is only twenty-eight. The DaiEg
Neocs has lived and exercised world
wide influence for thirty-nine years
the Daily Telegraph and Daily Garo,ai-
Gle for thirty. Newspapers, like human
beings, ''have their day and cease to
be, and in the eases of both their dis
appearance seems often untimely and
incomprehensible. Not many years ago
the Morning Herald and the Mor1aif1o
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 a
large section of the reading public, and
both enjoyed the favor of many adyer-
tisers, when they rapidly decayed and
passed away. For many years the
Morning Star twinkled brightly in the
journalistic armament, yet its light was
suddenly quenched. Others, such az
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 an
pearance of its 940th number on the
lst OF January, 1888. It was then no
unusual thing for an established news
paper TO assume new face. For in
stance, the Public AdUertiser, to which
"Junius" contributed, was first known
as the London Daily Post and General
AdcerttseT, next as the General -Advey-
taSer, and lastly by the title which is
now familiar. The MorBinq Post has
dropped half of its original designation.
tor the first three years of its existence
the Times was styled the DatIv Uni
sersdt Register. On the 9th of Decem-
Der, 1887, the following intimation was
made to its readers: 'sVarious reasons
having occurred since the first puhIica-
ton OF the UaeiUersai Reqister which
render it essentially necessary to chance
tne present title, we respectfully inform
our readers that on the 1st 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 ''7he Daily Universal Reqistey.
printed geographically, by His Ma,
Jestv's patent, there was substituted
the following: 1.-The Times, or Datlu
t1sscersal 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.-TRe Nine
tenth Century.