Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — NAMING A NEWSPAPER. [ARTICLE]

NAMING A NEWSPAPER.

Some Unique Titles Borne by “Sheets” 1» the East and West. There is the class of aerial disturbance, including such journals as the Cyclone, Breeze, Zephyr, Blizzard and Hot Blast. Closely related to this class is one which includes Wave, Breaker, Surf, ' Ocean Wave, Tide, Spray from the, Sound, Seaboard, Current Wave,: Header, Rudder, Helm, Coast News, Coast Mail and Canoe. * The Reporter who starts out to mold Public Opinion, and is very Wide Awake and a Hustler or a Rustler after News, often degenerates Into a mere Ink Fiend or Ink Hustler. Anna, 111., appropriately has a pa-, per called Talk. To keep it company, elsewhere is found Chaff and. Chat. In the divisions of Time we have a Century, an Age, an Epoch, a Cycle,' a Day, a Year, an Hour, a Month and a Week. Likewise we have Dawn,; Noontide and Daylight. Not far offare to be found the Watch, the Clock, the Horologer, the Timekeeper and a Dial. The above suggests Light, a Lighthouse, a Beacon, a Flambeau, a Torch, a Lamp,- a Headlight and; •Blazes. Ax, Broadax. Tomahawk and Hatchet follow each other naturally, and after the latter Chips may be placed. Mephisto, Lucifer and other Mephistophelean characters of a Plutonian Nature may also be’found. When it comes to real eccentricity of nomenclature, however, let me commend you to the Jefferson (Texas) Jimplecute, the Sedalia (Mo.) Bazoo; the Wayback Astonisher, the Solid; Muldoon, of Ouray, Col., the Moral, and Scientitlc Companionfin Arizona), the Rip Saw. the Deaf Mute Critic, the Wahoo (Neb.) Wasp, the Ram’s Horn, the Poor Soul’s Advocate, the Haw Patch (Ind.) Gospel Exhortation and Reproof, the Spirit of Jefferson, a Firm Foundation, the Orphan's Friend, the Unteriifled Democrat (Linn, Mo.), the Headblock, Thirteerr Towns, Thielensien, the Bedrock Democrat, the Herald-Disseminator, the Screw Driver, the Appeal-Ava-lanche, Ball, Shepherd’s Voice, the. Big Stone (Va.) Post, the Cosmocrat, Manna, tire Chronotype, Car, the Times-Reflex and Hop Reporter, Conglomerate Short Line, Snook’s Journal, Deaf Mute Pelican, Sand Me, Why?, the Growler, the Diamond Telescope, Nutmegs. There is an approach to humor in the Tombstone (A. T.) Epitaph, the Thomas (County) Cat, of Colby, Iowa; the Jamaica (Vt.) Ginger, and Hain and Eggs (pork and poultry), of Topeka, but the pun never gets any closer to the surface than in these instances, and even then it hardly can be said to exist in paying quantities. —Printers’ Ink.