The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-02
ART.Hgvs WARD

Arfemus will e,-ls.bit his beautiful MOI
mon panorama, comprising eighteen collos
sal painting, faithfully photographing tn
streets OF Salt Lake City, and the singular
4 ly beautiful valley of Utah Arty's spic
ters' cover over 500 yards of canvass. anf
are CONSIDERED connoisseuls in such matter,
as perfect gems of art. Said ''picters'' are
4 described by Artemus In his own peculiar
manner, who largely posses the faculty OF
| amusing an audience, as much by his quick
sInooth moving manner of talking as his
| prod1gaiIty IN fitting his cornucopia, which
: always 1ull ofthose sparkling bon bons of
VII anu sugar pluns Of fancy which are so
| palatabie and eXhilrating He is ouaint
queer and original, and arrives a+ concIn'
| slons with unerring certainty and pleasing
| erect by the way we have lust received
| from Artemus his autobiography Here il is.
DR. SIR 1Ts, into which YOU ask me TO
| send you sum leadin incidents of nv life so
you can rite my BogfTy for the papers. cum
dooiy 70 hand. L have no doubt that arti-
cle onte my life, grammatticaIlv ierked and
properly punktooated, would be a addition
TO the ctioIs ilteratoor of the day.
10 the yooth OF Ameriky it would be val
lyple as shown how high a ninnyIzle of
1alne a man can reach who commenst his
career with small canvass and a pea-green
OK, which he rubbed it off while scratch his
IiiO ICiiIti pOie CtbilSlIl Ill halfway
N > :, a discrnnlnatm mob to say humbuGs
would not go down iii them village. The
OK Fesoomd agncultooral pursoots shortly
afterards
L next tried my hand at givin blindman
concerts, kappearin as the poor bliudm0n
myself. BRt the infamous cuss who | hired
10 Iead me round town in the day time to
t4clte t;1 sympathy drank freely of spiritoous
Ilkef, unbeknOwns to me one day. Il while
under them lntuance he fed me into tbe
kanal. had to either tear the green han.
dage from my eyes or be drowned I tbo,t
d restore my eve-sirht.
In Wrltln about these things, Mr.. Editor.
kinder smooth 'eln over. Speak of 'em as
eccentrlsslties Of Genius.
by next venture would have bin n suc- |
cess II hadn't tried to do too much. rot |
up series of wax figures and amono others |
ole OF socrates. thOt a wax figoer of Old |
90ch would be popular with eddycated ne |
PIE, but untortuni5ly | put a brown linen
custer ana L. $. Army regulation can ON |
Hlhl, winch pc9io with Classyc..l edd yca ions
>''id ii was a iafce. This enterprise was nm
- UNI IN Ctler r-spocks. At Il certin |
.oH IL st'tN eItiaeH WAX nggeF of the HoDTa
amos Perkins who was railroad President
ana a Sfeat person in them parts. But il an
9edfed L had shown the same foger for n
'lrut named Gibbs IN that town the preyious
season, winch created intense toomult. &
ie adiitnce remarked shame on TO me"
other sentiments OF the same similarness
tfled 20 moliity 'en. | told them that anv
amlly poSsessin children might have my
ne tgef to play with half dav. &, 7
Vouidht charge 'em a cent but aiars II
vas OF no avail | was forced to leave e I
nier from article in the Advertiser of that
own, III which the editor saws. "Altbo,
me has sllvered this mans he'd with - s
IoStS, he still brazenly wallows in infa1ov
tlll are his snakes stuffed, and his wax
iorks unreliable. We are glad that he has
oncluded never to revisit our town. altbo, +,
icredlble as itkmay appear, theIfellow realIy
III contemplate so doing last summer, when
llll tfue to the craven instincts of his black
cart, ne wrote the hireling knaves of tbr
3scre journal across the street TO know :.
nat they would charge for 400 small bills
ne o2ne ON yellow paper! We shall re-
II to this matter again
Judge from this that there is stiu q,
Gln G9il felt against me in that picturesllc :
llage. '''i '9Nc Z
viii not speak of the time when. helm, in
IHtened circumstances / let myself to
5oatll-sehool - pic-nics to sing ballads adam
q to chIIdrens understandings, accomnani- m
: myself on the claironet, btit one dav yc
rgot where / was singin' instid Of "0b IS
;" pleasant to be little child