Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-27
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A NOTED FUNNY MAN
SAYS FOLKS ARE oyER-sTocKED
WITH HUMOROUS MATTER.

Hnmorist Found ON Almost Every
Paper-The Work Done by q Local
Funny Man-Twain, Cable. Nye, Riley
and M. Quad Tired Out.
hold the distinctive place they did q few
years ago. said. Robert j, Burdette, in a
conversation at the Monongahela house
the other afternoon.
What I mean" he continued, us 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 q department Of it, !.
the marl may not be labeled a funny man,
but you can see it cropping out all through
the paper. Yon will find in the city de-
Tpartment reports with touches OF bright
and original humor which would do credit
to a professional. You will sind it in the
editorial department aad the paragraphs,
and even in the head lines O the telegraph
editor. Then, tco, most papers have
adopted a department of clipped humor.
This effect has been produced on the daily
and weekly newspapers by the humoTcrs
papers, and while it has heightened up.
the former considerably, 1t has, to some
extent, hurt tho humorous papers, as it
furnishes about all that sort of matter
that meet rrSsppse care to road
The conversation running upon the lec-
ture platform, the huInorist was asked il
he had met the Bill Nye and Whitcomb
Riley combination. f
sNo, I have not" he replied, shut I'M
derstand they ars very successful. That
rarely happens, when Two lecturers travel
together. don't think III would be possi-
BILE for WI humorists to make o successful
combination. The similarity would sur
felt an audience.
aNow 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, than these two. Mr.. Gable Is b
small, refined, scholarly man, very quiet,
almost effeminate in look and manner, and
Twain IL, tall, ungainly, with a sort Of west
ern dash about him. They always act as
a foil to each other, AN audience never
tires Of themsn
HE GETS TIRED OUT AT LAsT
What has become OF your Railrosd
Passenger was asked.
AOh, I get tired of running It. / never
could keep up a line of sketches Of any
sort. They make me tired. The only
man who cane DO thai sort OF thing, anddo
it we'll for SO long q period, is C.@B. Lewis,
OF The DetroitFree Press. Year in and year
out he goes IN grinding out that Limekiln
Club and the Central Police Court, and I
can't see but what 1t is as bright and
quaint as it was at first. It is a wonder to
me how he does it. can not do it,
and il ! thy 1t ] get so Disguised
with the subject that l wouldn't
write it for S1o0 column. I am getting
tiredof writing any way. Next ulnmer
1 am going to take d teri and go mp In the
mountains and camp out for four months,
clear away from every one. I think it will
be q relief to the public as wei as my
self
asEhen'is that new book Of yours coming
out2,'
3Nell. now, rye heard OF that book. The
newspapers flash it up about as often as
they dc my ~discoverer. According to the
newspapers, Frank Hatton discovered me,
ssnd brought me before q long-suffering
world. Phocian 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-
guishcd honor of boosting me up among
the pinnacles Of fame. am going to call
. convention Of my discoveries, or els6i
send u circulars asking for q loan from
ebch Of them.p-Pittsburg Dispatch Inter
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