Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-17

Thus, ten years earlier, through the
-5uu Of the exchange editor, the
..-0r Of the DanbUry NGCS man,
r..,h appeared IN little weekly which
sowued, became OF great repute, and
he trOlI sketches and dry wit OF Bur
s.,s TO a similar way were brought to
,sie view. The Laramie Boomerang
-l1, BIrdette, Bailey, Artemus Ward
ri the first Of all that glorious race Of
l1oriSJs, John Phoenix, won the APP
-ya. Of that great class which is the
-5rgth Of the country and which has
4 D. little time for other reading than
4 Is. which is furnished by the newspa-
r,S These men became popular with
Be masses, aud some OF them won not
7 fame but fortune thereby.
o. course it was asked who this
s-.1s OF humOr Of the Wyoming up
lis was, and the papers began TO cir
-.lte a rumOr that his name was Bill
i y7s. and that he was a relative OF
,ll who had won great repute, not
-y as a statesman, but as a fun lover
/ ID maker, the late United States Sen
n-. jim Nye. OF course every one
U,iered whether the Bill Nye that
Us writing, with that spOntaneity
mich is the basis Of all genuine humor,
no Boomerang. sketches was also the
/ BIZ Nye whom Bret Harte had immOr-
a zsd in his Heather Chinee."
-l,,e's celebrity had before this
zen supposed to be a myth, a
nature OF his fancy; but there were
rlny persons in the east who felt sure
1l, the Bill Nye Of the poem and the
B D I'VE, Of The Boomerang, could be no
clsr than one and the same person.
]. was many months before the public
i-sw that Bill Nye was anon dc plume,
r3 that this genius Of humOr was bap-
-si Edgar Wilson Nye; that be was
,,l near the pine forests OF Maine,
.lrad on the frontier OF Wisconsin, was
.,st lawyer, and had ventured as far
e Laramie while a young man that he
night practice law or grow up with the
e-rit0ry lu any way that offered. he
-si actually become an otticehOlder,
-lvirg been elected a jutice OF the
pace. His Office brought him small
,ol0r and much misery, but it also gave
,n, though at the time he little sus-
,c,sd 10, q rich fund OF experience
F-'Ch is now serving him IN drama and
,ZLer literature and is giving delight
@ his almost countless readers.
When the public found that Bill Nye
F-s q nom de plume (Which was really
.-cel upon him), almost everybody sun
lung % the impression that Mr.. Nyee
VlS a near relative OF the distinguished
ellt0r who represented Nevada In the
United States Senate during Lincoln
ed Johnson's administrations, yet the
oily reason for such an impression was
similarity OF surname and reputation
%, the capacity TO make humOr. IhoSe
Who saw senator Nye in his prime, and
T10 have also been fortunate enough 10
AXE BIT. Nye By the hand, must nave
a., however, that the only kinship be-
.saen these two men was their capacity
% say those things which give people
pertinent.
Me-, the Senator, was man OF me-
-.m height, of Jolly iotundity. he had
a.gu, m0onllke face, something Ike
-2. which Cruikshank depicted 10 rep
-Sslt the cOuutenanCe OF the Immortal
1caw.c6 He was one OF those men
soon be made one jolly TO look upon
'-l seemed bubbling over his lips even
'1al be- was quiet, and mirth constant
smiled from his eyes. Yet this Nye
'ls what BIZ Nye never was, and proc
g. y never can be-a successful pOlltl-
Can. His humor served him well, Tor
-a made use Of It in such effective man
sr upon the stump that vast tnronSs
-.caed 70 hear him whenever ne was
--loglced TO speak, and the laihe
s-.cl Tom Corwin had won as the Wiz
ls, speaker upon the hastings Nye
a-la.ued after Corwin had passed over
Tie majority.
Bl Nye has been and is everything
.--, jim Nye has not, excepting that tue
40 men possessed a common surname
"a a common gift Of humOr. The Aye
]. Tue newspapers stands six feet IN MS
s.cS.ugS, and could have looked down
s91 the parting Of Jim Nye'S curry
--r. BIZ Nye IS OF pale complexloS'
,.a Nyo was rudy. Bill Nye until re-
emily was Of such slender build as maze
- height all the more conspicuous
IN Nye was rotund, unctuous ana IN
= Isier days almost fab0y In his nesn-
SsSs. He had a splendid crown OF curly
ar and be was said to greatly resem-
-s the famous actor, Fletcher. Bill Nye
-. - made humorous capital by reason
ais badness, and that popularity ana
- spectacles and beardless face nave
i,SS4oled the caricaturist TO Suggest :
GAeaess TO the original. Nye hlmseil
~eoOntenance really does not closely