Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-12-10
NO. 36.
A NOTED FUNNY NAN
SAYS FOLKS ARE OVER-STOCKEp
WITH HUMOROUS MATTER.

A Humorist Found on Almost Every
Paper-The Work Done by n Local
Funny Man-Twain, Cable, Nye, Riley
and NJ. Quad Tired Out.
"The humorous papers, asa class, don't
hold the distinctive place they did few
years ago." said Robert J. Burdette, in a
conversation at the Monongahela house
the other afternoon.
What l mean" he continued, "is that
nearly every paper of any size in the
| country has discovered that it has one or
two men who write creditable humor
They may not make a department of it, or
the man may not be lebelcd q furny mnn,
| bit you can see il cropping out all Through
the paper. You will find in the city de-
partment reports with touches of bright
and original humor which would do credit
to professional. You will find it in the
editorial department and the paragraphs,
and even in the head lines of the telegraph
editor. Then, too, most papers have
adopted department of clipped humor
This effect has been produced on the daily
and weekly newspapers by the humorous
papers, and while it has frightened up
the former considerably, it has, to some
extent, hurt the humorous papers, as it
furnishes about all that sort of matter
that most people care to read"
The conversation running upon the lee
ture platform, the humorist was asked if
he had met the Bill Nye and Whitcomb
Riley combination.
mo, l have not" he replied, "but l I'M
derstand they are very successful That
rarely happens, when two lecturers travel
together. don't think it would be posi-
bic for two humorists to make successful
combination. The similarity would sur
felt an audience
"Now Mark Twain and Cable were two
Of the best combinations | ever knew. One
could hardly conceive of two more op-
posite, in manner, taste, style, and every
thing else, than these two Mr. Cable is a
small, refined, scholarly man, very quiet,
almost effeminate in look and manner, and
Twain, tall, ungainly, with sort of west
ern dash about him. They always act as
a foil to each other, and an audience never
tires of them"
HE GETS TIRED OUT AT LAST
What has become of your Railroad
Passengers" was asked
"Oh, l get tired OF running it, l never
could keep up line of sketches of any
sort. They make me tired. The only
AAAth W Nv Seth OO llIttC stIt VI lulLH, anu 10
it well for so long period, is c. b. Lewis,
of The Detroit Free Press Year in and year
out he goes on grinding out that Limekiln
Club and the Central Police Court, and
can't see but what it is as bright and
quaint as it was at first 1t is wonder to
me how he does it. l can not do it,
and if l try it 1 get so disgusted
with the subject that 1 wouldn't
write it for 800 column. am getting
tired of writing any way. Next summer
am going to take tent and go up In the
mountains and camp out for four months,
clear away from every one. think it will
be a relief to the public as well as my
self,n
when is that new book of yours coming
outsn
"Well, now, I've heard of that book. The
newspapers flash it up about as often as
they do my discoverer According to the
newspapers, Frank Hatton discovered me,
and brought me before a long suffering
world, Phocian Howard also dragged me
out of my rural nonenfty to the plying
gazes of tho public, and some twenty-five
ether newspaper men claim the distin-
guished honor of boosting me up among
the pinnacles of fame. l am going to call
a convention of my discoverers, or else
send out circulars asking for loan from
each of them, ,"-Pittsburg Dispatch Inter
view,