The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-03-14
1.-THE THuNDERER."
The London Times Reaches the End oi
Its First Century.

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 case, 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
tor upward of 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
eeeding centuries pass over its head.
This is the Morning Post, which was
founded in 1772 with the title of the
Morning Post and General AdUertiser
Other London morning journals, enjoy
ing a 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 Daily
.NeDs has lived and exercised world
wide influence for thirty-nine years
the Daily Telegraph and Daily Chroni.
Gle for thirty. Newspapers, like human
beings, shave 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 Morning Herald and the Morning
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
nails appeared to be indispensable to a
large section of the reading public, and
both enjoyed the favor of many adver.
tisers. when they rapidly decayed and
passed away. For many years the
Morning Sto,. twinkled brightly in the
journalistic armament, yet its Ii CHIT was
suddenly quenched. Others, such as
the Representatives 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 LIST Of
January, 1876, yet the journal was moi
called by its present name till the APP.
pearance of its 940th number on the
1st of January. 1888. 1t was then no
unusual thing for an established news.
paper to assume a new face. For in
stance, the Public 1dcerttser, to which
'Junius" contributed. was first known
as the London Daily Post and General
1d3,pTfiepy payt 90 tho Go3oora5 df},or.
tiser, and lastly by the title which is
now familiar. The Morniag Post has
dropped half of its original designation.
For the first three years of its existence
the Times was styled the Daily Uni
Uersal Register. On the oath of Decem.
Der, 1887, the following intimation was
made to its readers: s'Various reasons
having occurred since the first publica-
ton of the Universal Register which
render it essentially necessary to change
the 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 Register,
printed geographically, by His Ma
jesty's patent" there was substituted
the following: "7he Times. or Dahl
Universal Register, printed Geographic
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
teeaah CenturY.