Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-04-29
A Noted FUNNY MAN
SAYS FOLKS ARE oVER-STockED
WITH HUMOROUS MATTER.
4 UumoFiSt Found on Almost Every
Paper-Ths Work Done by n Local
Funny Man-Twain, Cable, Nye, Riley
and VI. Quad Tired Out.

anu VI. Huhh '''" ""s
"The humorous papers, as a class, don't
hold the distinctive place they did few
years ago" said Robert j. Burlette, in a
conversation at the MouOnganela house
the other afternoon.
what mean he continued, as that
nearly every paper of any size in the
country ia, discovered that il has one or
two mru VINO write crelitahle humur.
They may uJl make n department Of it, or
the MIA may not be labeled funny man,
but yus "u see it cropping outall through
the pa9rr Iou will find in the city de-
pa, u reports with touches vi bright
an ori l.al nulaor which would do credit
toa rr. -ipuIL uu will find il ia the
editorial department. aud the paragraphs,
and tl-atl tllp head lines OF The telegraph
ed,iur Ln,g, too, most papers have
aGup,-t r. department OF clipped humor.
Tlis effect has beeu produced ON the daily
and weekly newspapers 10y the humorous
paper. aud while il has frightened up
the FORMER considerably, il has, TO some
extent, hurt the humorous papers, as 1t
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.
"NU, have not he replied, "but IN
derstand they are very successful. That
rarely happens, when two lecturers travel
together. don't think it would he posi-
biz for two humorists TO make a successful
combination The similarity would sur
felt an audience.
Now Mark Twain and Gable were two
Of the best combinations ever knew. One
could hardly conceive of two more OPP
posite, in manner. taste, style, and every
thing else, thnn these two. Mr.. Gable is u
small, refned, scholarly man, very quiet,
almost effeminate i'm look and manner, and
Twain, tall ungainly, with sort Of west
ern dash about him. They always act as
a foil 10 each other, and an audience never
tires Of Them
Hi GETS TIRED OUT AT LAST.
"What has become Of your Railroad
Passenger" was asked.
"Oh, get tired of running it. ! 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 period, is c. Ii. 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 i
can't see but what it is as bright and
quaint as IL was at first Ii is a wonder to
me how he does it, / can not do il,
and If | try it | get so disguised
with the subject that / wouldn't
write it for 500 column. am getting
tired of writing any way. Next summer
am going to take tent and 90 up in the
mountains and camp out for four months,
clear away from every one. think il will
be RELIEF to the public as well as my
self"
"When is that new book of yours coming
outs"
swell, 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 long-suifering
world. Pnocian Howard also dragged me
out of my rural nonenity TO the plying
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. | am going to call
a convention of my discoveries, or else
send out circulars asking for a loan from
each of them. '-Pittsburg Dispatch Inter.
view.