The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23
PHILIP.
A skelah Of the Alleged Enrxer ~ tlse
Morey Letter.
Philadelphia Pres.

kenwald Philip, the assistant elltJc u The
Truth, who was arrested 10, completely in
the forgery of the Chinese site. Il. a little
fellow with a high torehe.su an : restless
eye. His reputation a. u pslcSical joker is
metropolitan if not national, ana N:!s never
perfectly happy unless when engaged IN the
| perpet-.t'on of something funny. If 1t be
true that he is the author of the Chinese
letter, it is then without doubt that he did the
thing for the purpose Of gratifying his desire
t o quietly erjcy the discontinue its publica-
tion " ou!d occasi N. He has been a politician
in tie local affairs of Brooklyn for many
years, although he was never natuIaliZed and
never attempted TO vote. lie is the bosom
friend of Thomas Kinsella, the editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, a Democratic organ, and
was at one time employed upon that paper as
a general writer. His business of late years
has been 9e"ia. s.o1y-writing of the blood
and-thunder character for Norman L. Mon
roe's F0mHy story Paper, and when the
D:Gm0tir -NeUS was staltcu his were the
earliest and most readable contributions.
Philp il about So years Of age, an English
mar by bilth, and is the sun of the founder
Of Tie IondCd &~iTndurN. lie is a descriptive
and humorous writer ul the very highest
oldel Vi ability, and as companionable and
,ioly Il dog as any one would care to know.
AS the editor Of d recently deceased bat once
brilliant journal, tie Brooklyn Sunday Sun,
he kept the staid inhabitants of the City of
Churches in Il condition of the greatest en-
element by his eXasperating personalities.
He seemed gifted with the power of penetrat-
ing Che weakness of people, and was so uni
formly successful IN hitting the mark that
there was not a period during his editorial
ship that lie wasn't pursued by at least u dozen
nate citizens who would have been glad of
HE opportunity to Quarter him. A fellow OF
infinite Jest, lie never fou nd himself in a
position from which he could not escape
with lis colors flying, and his ability to get
oul of a tight place without a scratch is pro-
verbal. He was CnCe in New York IN a
lark, and, as was usual with him, spent all
his money and exhausted his resources be-
foe lie thought of returning home to Brook
Ign. 1t was only a penny to cross the terry
Dut NIP naunC even tnat. his creQlt was
exhausted with the ferry gate-keeper, and to
most men under similar circumstances the
case would have appeared hopeless. PHIL
only chuckled as he cut a button from hi
coat and slowly approached the ferly-eate
Crowds were filing through the narrow pas
sageway at the foot of Fulton street, SO he
writer until the whistle blew and the boat
was about to start. Then lie rushed through
the gate, and, throwing his button down, man
aged to get inside the railing before the
ferry-keeper detected the fraud. When tho
latter called hin back Philip, with a patroniz
ing flourish of his hand, told him to 'nevel
mind the change and sprang upon the boai
just as it was leaving the dock. After tina,
he always visited New York by the way o.
the Wall street ferry. He would stop OF
Broadway where the crowds were thickes
aud peer own a coal grating IN the side
walk with u facial expression of the utmost
horror; and when the street became impass
able from the crowds that had gathered to SEE
what was the matter, Philip would slip of
and chuckle at his little joke. When it i.
known that he is little above five feet high