Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-07-03
A NOTED FUNNY MAN
SAYS FOLKS ARE oVER-sTocKED
 WITH HUMOROUS MATTER.

A HumorIst Found on Almost Every Paper-The Work Done by a Local
 Funny Man-rwAIn, Cable. Nye. Riley
 and M. Quad Tired Out.
 ~The humorous papers, as Q class, don't hold the distinctive place they did few conversation at the Monongahela house the other afternoon.
 What mean, he continued, @is that nearly every paper of any size in the | country has discovered that 1t has one or two men who write creditable humor. | They may not make a department of it, or the man may not bs labeled funny man, but you can see it 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 a 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 1t 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,n
 The conversation running upon the lec- ture platform, the humOrist was asked if he had met the Bill Nye and Whitcomb Riley combination.
 No, have not, he replied, @but un- derstand they are very successful That rarely happens, when two lecturers travel together. don't think it would be possi- ble for two humOrists to make a successful combination. The similarity would sur felt m audience.
 ~Now Mark Twain and Cable were two of the best combinations ever knew. One could hardly conceive of two more Op- posite, fin manner, taste, style, and every thing else than these two. Mir. Cable Is Q small, refined. scholarly man, very quiet, almost effeminate in look and manner, and Twain, tall, ungalnly, with a 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 Passengery5 was asked.
 ~Oh, get tired of running 1t. never could keep up line of sketches of any sort. They make me tired. The only man who can do that sort of thing, and do it well for SO long a 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 1t was at first. It is a wonder to me how he does it. l can not do it, and If I try it l get so disgusted with the subject that l wouldn't write it for slOO column. am getting tired Of writing any way. Next summer am going to take a tent and go up in the mountains and camp out for four months, clear away from every one. think it will be relief to the public as well as my self
 When is that new book of yours coming Outs'
 Well, now. I've heard of that book. The l newspapers flash 1t up about as often as they do my discoverer. According to the | Frank HattOn discovered me, and brought me before a long suffering | world Phocian Howard also dtagged me | out of my rural nOnenity to the pitying | gazes of the public, and some twenty-five | other newspaper men claim the distin- guished honor of boosting me up among | the pinnacles of fame. I 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