The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-03-07
About our newspaper Hnmor-

Something About our Newspaper Humor-
lists.
MIR. S. o. Hammond in the Chicago Ledger
"Wit, the flavor Of the mind, writes
the eloquent Sydney Smith, himself al
humorist Of the first order; and vel
surmise that were the highly-seasonedI
Sidney an American of to-day he would
appear early at the roll-call of the par
sgraphers This feature Of American
journalism has developed SO rapidly
within a few years that their pithy
sayings are copied far and near, and
j these free 1ances Of fun are chiefly re-
sponsible for the peculiar character
Of American humor. Happily, few
are those who cannot be persuaded to
smile If tickled in the right spot, and,
as you nibble the tid-bit out of the pot
pourri which forms the mass Of daily
news, you look up and demand to
know who "these fellows" ara that
make us laugh.
Well, there is c. 3. Lewis, Of the
!, Detroit Free Press, humorist and po-
, lice-court historian. He who has
never Toasted the eye Of his soul on the
life pictures BY M. Quad" has certain
! " missed the sunny side Of the walk.
The sustained fun of this popular and
most widely-copied writer is perfect
mine Of mirth, bat there's a H010k-
Eye on us from over ON the MISSISSIPPI
pi that has some Editorial Dots" in
: it which must be looked after These
"dots" OF diversion confess to the
facile zen Of Mr. Robert j. Burdette,
Of the Burlington Hag0k- Eye, whose
spontaneity, audacity and versatility
have won him a place among the very
first of American wits, and made the
Haaok-Eye famous. From the land of
! the Alamo the ringing slogan Of Alex.
e e. Sweet, Of the San Antonio Herald
s will not let US forget to remember the
Alamo boys; while from the region
: OF counting in" and returning
( boards" Nathaniel Burbank, of the
a New Orleans Republican, gently bull
! dozes our vell-preserYed risibles OF
Il course, George T. Rabbit, Of the Bos-
'e ton Post and "Spicer," Of the CONNER
q cia( Bulletin, will answer to roIl-cal-
i from down East" and Danbury Bal.
III ley who gets credit for that spring OF
g laughter that ripples among the liter
! ! airy luXuries Of the Nep8, you better
h believe will be there. Then what
i would the association be without the
e quiet fun and the harmless badinagt
- - Of Stiles L. Stanton, Of the Norwich
s. Bulletin? and what could be done
L without that other general favorite
?, among newspaper readers, J. II. vii
y liams, of the NorristeWn Herald? and
It yet another, the facetious knight OF
J. the Buffalo EgpreSs, formerly of the
q Rochester Democrat, L. M Gregory
/ Surely their yivacious pencilings have
d swung wide al open door in such an
d assembly.
: Among the eligible parties for reg
istratiOn in such an organization as
l we are talking ab7ut must be in
; cluded those scientific and polished
; writers, e. M. Remey, of the Worces-
: ter (Mas8.) Press; w. A. Croffut,of the
Q only Illustrated daily in the world
: the New York Grapbjc-and Mr..
! George L. Catlin, the ilYeterate pun
e ster of the New York Commercial
AdUertiser. The author Of those pithy
E notes in the Baltimore Gazette, Charles
= Burdette Hart, must be counted in"
Q and so must that other man Of brevi-
| ties. ]. Il. P Holden, who scintillates
through the columns of the Yonkers
: Gazette; and yet what an aching void
: would there be if that sunny sketch
; list, George B. Bayard, Of the New
York San, who won popularity by his
fnely-fayored Echoes" in the Brook
Ign Argus were left out. "Max Adeler''
: is guilty of some Of the most anus
Tag things ahoat on the sea of journal
; istic humor, so please bring forward
! "high-cbair" for MI. Charles Heber
Clark, of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
But before the committee on admir-
alton retire, let it be refreshed by the
colloquial eloquence of "Old Si'' Is. w
SmalD, of the Atlanta Constitution,
; treated to the crisp brevities Of e. e..
Wood, of THE CHICAGO EVENING