, 1886-04-28
A NOTED FUNNY MAN
SAYS FOLKS ARE OVERSIZE KED
WITH HUMOROUS MATTER.

A Humorist Found on Almost Evary
raper-Ths Work Done by n Local
Funny Msn-Twaln. Cable. Sye, Riley
and NJ. Quad Tired Out.
THE humorous papers, as a class, don't
hold the distinctive place they did a few
years ago said Robert J. Burdette, In a
conversation at the Monongahela house
the other afternoon.
What | mean he continued, lis that
nearly every paper OF n size In the
country has discovered that Il has one or
two men who write creditable humor.
They may not make a department of it, or
the man may not be labeled a funny man,
but you can see 1t 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 n professional You will find It in the
editorial department and the paragraphs,
and even in the head lines Oft telegraph
editor. Then, too, most papers have
adopted "A department OF clipped humor.
This effect has been produced on the daily
and weekly newspapers by the humorous
papers, and while II has frightened up
the former considerably, 1t has, to some
extent, hurt the humorous papers, as IL
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 il
he had met the Bill Nye and Whitcomb
Riley combination.
mo, | have not, he replied, "but | m
derstand they are very successful. That
rarely happens, when two lecturers travel
together. don't think it would be posi-
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combination. The similarity would sur
felt an audience.
Now Mark Twain and Gable were two
Of the best combinations | ever knew. One
conldr hardly conceive OF two more op-
posite, In manner, taste, style. and every
thing else, than these two. Mr.. Gable is a
small, refined, scholarly man. very quiet,
almost effeminate In look and manner, and
Twain. tall, %ungainly, with a sort Of west
ern dash about him. They always act rs
n foil to zach other, and an audience never
tires Of them
HE GETS TIRED OUT AT LAST.
What has become Of your Railroad
P~assengers" was asked.
"Oh, 1 get tired of running it. l never
could keep up a line Of sketches Of any
sort. They make me tired. The only
man who can 10 that sort OF thing, and do
IL wei Tor so long a period, Is T. Is. 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 1
can't see but what 1t is as bright and
quaint rs it was at first. 1t is a wonder to
me how he does it. l can not do it,
and. if l try it | get so disguised
with the subject that 1 wouldn't
write II for 800 u 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- n relief TO the public as well as my
self
when is that new book of yours coming
outfn
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 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 pinnhcles Of fame. / am going to call
a convention Of my discoveries, or else
send out circulars asking for a loan from
each Of them.T-Pittsburg Dispatch Inter
view.