The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-28
From the New York World.


From the New York World.
Miss Kate Sanborn's "Wednesday
morning lectures in the parlor of DR..
Howard Crosby's church, at Fourth
Avenue and TWenty-second street, diff
fer from those delivered last Winter at
various private houses only in that she
has now enlarged their scope and at
tracts larger audiences, reaching be-
y0nd her immediate circle Of friends
The pleasant informally Of last sea
sons entertainments, however, and
Miss Sanborn, laying aside her wraps
and gloves, sits at table and talks to
her audience Of ladies-ladies Of all
ages, yesterday, from the gray-headed
to the very young. Miss Sanborn's
subject was Newspaper Wits" the
funny men of the PERIOD" as she call
ed them, "Who are real benefactors,
with the important and honorable mis-
sion of Frightening up the over worked
and over-serious American citizens"
Beginning with Seba Smith, who orig !
mated newspaper comic writing dur
ing the Administration Of Andrew
Jackson, under the nom de plume of
Major Jack Downing, Miss Sanborn
went on to Orpheus G. Kerr Robert
FL. NewelD and Petroleum Y. Nasty
Cd. r. Locke, at present editor Of the
E0e1ai1ag Mail, who have both follow
: ed in Jacks footsteps, with humorous
: letters full Of hard hits at the weak
, places III political and army life, but
for originality and genuine fun the
palm must be given to the Mayor"
|, Pomeroy, Lieutenant Derby John
S PhWniX) and Charles T. Browne CAR
! temas Ward next received a short
sketch each, and Miss Sanborn read Sc
: lections illustrating their respective
characteristics. Gone or two Oracular
! pearls from the lips Of Mrs. Parting
E ton were next given, and Miss Sanborn
: closed her comments on 3. ?. Shil1aber
g by saying, while he has written some
really good poetry, he will always be
: thought of as MISUNDERSTANDING
!, Mrs. Malaprop with large spectacles on
d her beaming face and small rogue at
u her side"
Passing Charles G. LELAND, whose
q Hans Breitmann ballads have made
: him SO well known, Miss Sanborn gave
g an illustration in the same vein from
d a wit less known to fame, but rapidly
VI growing in public favor, Charles T.
2 Adams, 'snUo the stately Charles Fran
els of the Hub" Mrs. G. Fl. Robinson
daughter of Mr. Delamater, who has q
peculiar facility for rendering broken
German, was called upon to give the
! recitation of MI. Adams "Leedle YaW
coop Strauss" Henry r. Shaw's Josh
q Billings) essay on rats followed, wher
Miss Sanborn paused to pay tribute
to George d. Prentice. She said. GAS q
brilliant journalist and versatile gen
y Jus, none can rank higher than George
!. d. Prentice; politician and poet, q
u philanthropist and an able lawyer
i statesman, author, editor, wit, and a
d success in all. Since he joined the
: ranks Of Kentuck's great dead there is
no one to fill the throne he erected and
occupied without rival. Prentice
coulc strike with rapier or blugeon.
It was he who said of Horace Greeley
that he was self-made man and Wor-
SHIPPED his creator"
"Doesticks, ""Mark Twain" Charles
Ii. Webb, better known as "John Paul."
and Chasles II. Clark, MAX Adeler," Of
the Philadelphia Bulletin. next receiv-
ed attention from the speaker. Of the
last named she said "Mr. Clark OBJ
jects to being. ranked among the pro-
fessional humorists, but his humor is
of the most rollicking and grotesque
that has ever appeared in this country.
We cannot afford to leave him out.
Both his books, Out of the Hurley
, Burly' and Elbow Room are extreme
ly popular. He is not paragraphs,
but prefers to throw his droll fun into
the form of sustained narrative" "That
, witty fellow, Burdette, known as the
, Burlington HatOk-Ege," was pronounc-
ed the most popular paragraphist, and
just at present closely followed by a
score of clever imitators; and Mrs. S.
III. Smith, of Lafayette, N j., recited
MI. Burtette's "Autumnal Reverie."
Charles B. Lewis, the Free Press
humorist, and the terror Of the De-
trOit police courts, and James M.
J Bailey, the Danbury Nea0s man, were
passed by for lack Of time with mere
mention. Miss Sanborn said: almost
0Voiy paper OI any Importance HAS
now a literary Merry Andrew on it's
staff. Mr.. Frederick Hudson, in his
History of Journalism in America,
credits the Boston Post with having
originated the column Of smart say
ings which is now to be seen SO gen
erally. It was there that Mr.. Shilla-
Der first introduced Mrs. Darlington
and her precocious son Ike to the pub
lie; some of the cleYerest epigrams of
Juhn G. Sake appeared here. Mr.. Bah
bitt keeps up it's former reputation
with steady light" Extracts were
then read from the writings of Mr..
Croffut, the funny man of the Graphic,
and with some fables from Mr.. LAM
cams "Out of the World"
1T would be pleasant" Miss San
born said, in conclusion, "to dwell on