Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-06
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 "PUDD'NtIEAD WILSON.u
How Queer Genius Came to be Kndwi
 by That Name.

by That Name.
 He was a homeIy, freclxled, sandy- haired young fellow with an intelli- rent blue eye that had frankness and ,omradeship il it, and q covert twinkle ,f pleasant sort. But for an unfor- Sunate remark of his he would no soubt have entered at once upon a suc- sessful career at Dawson's Landing. But he made his fatal remark the first iay he spent in the village, and it gagged" him. He had just made the acquaintance of a group of citizens when an invisible dog began to yelp tnd snarl and howl, and make himself fery comprehensively disagreeable, vhereupon young Wilson said, much US one who is thinking aloud:
 q wish I owned half of that dog.''
 ''Why?" somebody asked.
 Because I would kill my half"
 The group searched his face with curiosity, with anxiety even, but tound no light there, no expression that they could read. They fell away from him as from something uneanny, and went into privacy to discuss him. One said:
 Pears to be a fool. ,
 :" Pears?" said another. sB, I ,ecSon you better say'''
 Said he wished he owned huff of the dog, the idiot" said third. ssWhat did he reckon would become of the other half if he killed his half? Do you reckon he thought it would live?'
 Why, he must have thought it un- less he is the downrightest fool in the world; because if he hadn't thought it, he would have wanted to own the whole dog, knowing that if he killed his half and the other half died, he would be responsible for that half just the same as if he had killed that half way to you, gents?'
 ''Yes, it does, if he owned one-half of the general dog, it would be so; if he owned one end of the dog and an other person owned the other end, it would be so, just the same; particu- l larly in the first case, because if you kill one-half of general dog there ain t any man that can tell whose half it was, but if he owned one end of the dog, maybe he could kill his end of it , and
 ''No, he couldn't either; he couldn' t and not be responsible if the other end died, which it would. In my opinion the man ain't in his right mind''
 ''In my opinion he hain't got any mind"
 No. said: "Well, he's lummox, anyway"
 That's what he is, said No. 4; 'he's labrick-just Simon-pure labrick, if ever there was one.
 "Yes, sir, he's dam fool, that's the way put him up" said No. }. Any body can think different that wants to- but those are my sentiments"
 ''Tm with you, gentlemen, said No. 6. Perfect jackass-yes, and it ain't going too far to say he is a pudd nhead. If he ain't a pudd nhead, I ain't no judge, that's all
 Mir. Wilson stood elected. The incl dent was told all over the town, and gravely discussed by everybody. With in week he had lost his first name; Pudd' nhead took it's place. In time he came to be liked, and we'll liked too out oy that tllne the nickname hdd goI well stuck on, and it stayed That first day's verdict made him fool, and he was not able to get it set aside or even modified. The nickname soon ceased to carry any harsh or unfriend. l ly feeling with it, but it held it's place, and was to continue to hold it's place for twenty long years. rs.-MarlS Twan, 1 in Century