Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
A Pair of Funny Fan

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 All our comic newspapers have ., failures, vet, strange to say everv,l. ous is read with avidity. Tom HooI known on this side as on the otba, tic, and the comic characters of Dicl come household personages within. Holmes are copied and read with a,, Doesticks and John Phoenix are ;r mouth. The south has produced ous writers, among whom we may pos author of the Big Bear of Arkanso. land, whose recent death is mournrr bered; the author of Major Jope,, c,, the author of the Sut Lovengood 2, In tru''' we are lun-loving peop. relish a joke, and will have a lar.l an opportunity offers.
 The South Arkansas Demoo. every issue, has some good thing. '., other newspapers of the State - come across smart saving or ag.. cism. But we notice in the h.. p a two of its correspondents are da.,. exceedingly droll, decidedly waco. fun is seen to some disadvantaee f3 92 ed with the dry subject of polsc, that form which fun always takes snr p~ with politicians, it comes in tbe g and irody. One funny fellow hail. den, under the title of Sigma .., morou'Iy dlscourSes of the prosD.. Rust, the democratic nominee fa.c the second district. To uDders,.., the joke, it may be necessary to James A. Jones is self pomir,. tor Congress. Sigma, after discourt ing the circular of Col. Rust in ous style, says that J eemes can rou "u h0Ws dehce say, "0ent, vioi vci.n Jin,,. modest announcement of himself. sald that hls engagements would ro. him to canvass the district, but a,. remain at home. This fact rahe,3,., joke so far as ''veni' is copeerD.s that, it is very funny.
 The following paragraph is as hs as an egg is full of meat or an oIi,. The fun sticks out of it at all correr hardly necessary for Sigma to t,ra,, ny portions of it. He further sar,.
 "Jones Is plain, open spoken r.. appreciated for his modeStv and kTJ without having any apparent op,F.. sesses a shrewd, good iudgmerl bs make a brilliant lumiaary, but wjl%. work-quietly, silently and efecHy., ed, than his opponent"
 The phrase brilliant lumina,v We wish we had space to norcs f, joke of this wag.
 In another part of the paper we f5 letter from another funny fellow, wbs Clark county, but unfortunately n he Is nameless; has not written eys, The fun of joker number two is br,i, and bolier than that of joker nutiJg first is satirical, covert and is ersri, dos. The wit of the second cor5a, an outrageous story with a grave a, stance, he says:
 " Gov. Drew Is making friends hss. has election IS considered aImos. err,
 The use Of the word "almostn alnos the joke, but, when we consider that get more votes in one county than get in the whole district, the point of becomes apparent. In fact the deadl like Drew really pretending to opp@ Rust's abilities is ridiculous, but to aa he could beat him for any office; taas gent people would prefer Drew to Ra premely absurd.
 We are glad to haue some reHd dryness of political campaign, and refreshing to find two disciples of Ja ! start up in our midst. We greet tht ance in print, as the boys will greet ta's of the clown who will exhibit in the I day, as d promise of fun to come, for shown themselves to be wags of the fs really and truly pair of funny fsIan