The Irish standard., 1886-05-01
NEWSPAPER NAMES.
Pecu}iarities About Them Noted by
an Gbservant Journalist.

Au VUScIVdhL OOuIAsABAe1s
The old proverb that there is no &C.
count ng for tastes finds a marked illus
tration in the names which are given the
more than 10000 newspapers and other
periodicals published in the United States.
When it is remembered that some of these
names are repeated hundreds OF times, it
might seem that there was q lack of orig
inality in the coinage Of newspaper names,
but study of the newspaper directories
quickly shows that some of the names
which have been adopted are not only
original, but most strikingly so.
For example, Arkansas has Tack
Hammer at Viola, and Greeley, Col, a
Rocky Mountain Howler. Pennsylvania
has daily Blizzard in Oil City, Cupid's
Sitting Room in Bangor, Multum in Par
vo in Cleartield, and the Derrick in Oil
City. South Carolina is favored with a
Psalm Singer in Due West, and the Cotton
Plant in Marion. Texas supports the
Quill In Abilene, the Cross Timbers in
Bowie, the Roundup in Cisco, the Cow
Boy in Dallas, Dot in Del Rio Jimplecute
III Jefferson, Black Waxy in Mckinney,
and Quid Nunc in Round Rock. Arizona
has Silver Belt in Globe, and the Daily
Tombstone in the city OF that name in
place of the Epitaph, deceased.
The longest name is owned by Die
Deutsch-Amerikanisch Gewerbe und In
dustrie Zeitung: Fortschritt Der Zeit, q
commercial paper Of Milwaukee. Atlanta,
Ca, has Light for Thinkers. and Sparta
an lshlnaelite. Illinois has the Barry
Unicorn -Greenback, Blue Mound Cyclone,
Casey Acorn "a weekly at so cents a year,
and Chicago Alarm, the last the organ Of
the Socialists. indianapolis has the Iron
clad Age, an anti-religious paper, and the
Scissors. Terre Haute has What Next?
an advertising sheet. Iowa has at Angus
the Black Diamond. and at Fayette the
Postal Card In Kansas Atchison has
every week q Sunday Morning Sermon,
ependent-Democratic; Carbondale has
the Astonisher and Paralyzer, Clay Cen
tire Firebrand, Dodge City the Cowboy,
Garden City the Prairie Dog and a Bundle
of Sticks, and Valley Falls it's Lucifer, a
free thought paper.
The Condenser operates at Leesville,
La, and Tip Top halls from Baltimore,
Nd. Massachusetts has perhaps less va
riety OF newspaper names than other
States and it's Traveller is one Of the most
unique of its names. The most common
name is quite naturally that Of News, by
which, either with or without I. prefix,
some $50 papers are called. Forty-four
of these are in Illinois, 80 in New York. 3S
in Ohio, "a in Pennsylvania while the
others are scattered through the other
States and Territories. There are 4s9
called the Times, AIS Journals, 4O6 Demo-
Gratis, 29' Gazettes, 273 Republicans, 1913
Enterprises. 1870 Independents, 18O Trib-
unes, l79 Records, TT Couriers, IT'S SEN
tinels, 149 Presses 1877 Registers, 1913
Chronicles, 1876 Reporters, 1l9 Stars, III
Reviews los Suns, LOT Leaders, SO Ad.
vertisers, SO Arguses, 80 Standards, 80
Free Presses, 83 Posts, ~ Bulletins, 72
Expresses, II Banners, 20 Observers,
63 Unions, 81 Citizens 50 Messen-
gers 81 Eagles, 53 Dispatches 40
Advances, 49 Indexes, 46 Transcripts,
A Mirrors, SO Pioneers, 81 Com
mercials, 81 Globes, IS Echoes, ~ Watch
men, ~ Mercurys, and 20 indicators.
1t is little curious that some Of the In
dependents are most rabid partisan sheets.
Some of the most stalwart Republican
papers rejoice in the name OF Democrats,
and others called Republicans arc most
emphatically hide-bound Bourbons. There
is at least one Democrat in every State
except two, and sturdy Republican ILL.,
nois heads the list with thirty-;ix of them.
No State is without it's journal and News
and every one but Delaware has q Ga
zette. AS to language in which American
newspapers are printed, almost every ma
tionality is represented, showing the cos
mopolitan character of our civilization.
The German publications are of course the
most numerous, and they are followed in
order by the French, Scandinavian and
Spanish. There are five Polish, two Fin
nish, one Cherokee, and one Chinese pa
pers. The United States takes the lead in
newspaper and periodical literature, if the
number in existence is to be made a. test,
nearly two-tifths of the worlds publica-
tions being published in her territory.