The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-05

tingui.hed for their peculiar amiability. Hee-
nan himself was described as a ~singularly pre-
Weighed four tons and some twenty odd ounces.
with a shaved head, upon the top OF which he
sistins OF a briei sack coat and a short pipe.
As to the fight itself, Browne protested that
he could hardly mud words In which to express
tor adding. however. that II MIR. Heenan had
Cleaned out" Mr.. Morrissey. he would have
tlemen had been mauled within m inch Of
their respective Ives. his JOY would have been
overwhelming Indeed.
One ~ Brownies tricks OF humor was that
o. exploiting unexpected subjects, At one OF
the sunday morning sessions spoken OF In a
former article. he mnle a sudden. violent at
taCk upon certain patent medicines In language
s uoIH HrapA!c and picturesque. supposed. y,
preliminaries. that DuruO's suuf l. "a great.
maHnltl,ent. incompatible. and altogether cx-
inttent thing. | suppose tIat Dutch.s Norway
blt;ers are great, also: lEd so, too. | suppose,
Is StamJoluff's tuyi.Uratpr. but | have Hereby
sworn, nnd do now uuuryrAsuhly swear,
either ot them. Nv aife shall not touch them,
nor shall my ehlldrea he had no wife, and died
they do so.tn that mome.t | shall disown them.
ana forever. Were my head a mass q catarrh.
anu 1 knew That DurnOs snuH wOuld make IL
sound In an instant, | would dash the sndtf to
the ground and spit on it.
,phSt buTuO all hs Snun. Eternal curses
)n dutch ana his NOrwGy bitters, To the devil
with stambolotf and his invisorator. I'll none
or them; No doubt Durno means wall, no
Dutch with his bi'ters, and WHAT'S His Nance
lnvigorator; but when | see that some idiot has
taken seventeen bottles of the bitters. another
nine bottles ~ the inviguratrr, and a third the
Lord knows now much Of Durno's snuf. | get
never will"
\ paragraph going the rounds Of the papers
10 tDp pHHtr that n EfrFfFua nnfngrruIkT NJ
King Henry the Eighth, dated l5.S, had sold
in New York for 50. Browne advertised that
all admitted to be curiJu-. at half the price ~
that Of King Henry. orders ACCOMPANIED
with the cash will receive prompt attention. '
writing under assumed names.
sir lore Ouseley. was the British Minis
ter resident at Washington. Browne one day
made this Statement: sir Gore Ouselcy likes
the Plhtn Dsd!sr very much. He reads it every
day AFTER dinner, and says that the local tens
Gore hasgut u new vest
The following verses. now reprinted. I he
lieye for the. first time in nearly forty years,
exhibit all Of Browne, pecullari4es in an NJ
Good ship Polly Ann: \ Pathetic Nautical
Ballad"
A the good ship P0liy Ann was sailing
Across the brihy. briny sea,
she spr.ns a leak, and no lind OF balins
For she went town To the bottom Of the sea-
The sea, the sea. MY boys,
With her cargo, and old captain Grives,
Being the total loss of the good ship Polly Ann and
l,4O0- lives.
Captain Grtves was a gallant old man.
Gallant, gallant was he.
He frank his run, from a large tin pan,
Says he, Ny boys, ' when the storm was rasn',
e arewel! TO our friends and wives.
For were soin' down in waters very 'urgin', "
Being the total loss OF the good ship Polly Ann and
Then up ,G aaa ,psak the = 1r2,s srs' mate
say, h., Ere we 90 We a suggestion for to make.
That very well said, says the good Captain
So he nIIei up his pan; the brave scatartug men
R p]rbS snd tho to 'n1tgtig asta,iy, 4 I%i. c2', SSn, FoW I'M
being the total loss OF the sooi ship Polly Ann
and l''oo lives ~
Previous to which the second mate he spoke.
His name, and hts name was Brown.
At the idea. the :tra OF going down
While ashore my Betsy rleons the dishes,
Likewise the spoons ami the knives,
I shall be tool tcor Tho Po.ky Old n'Pss"
loss u TIE good sh.p Polly Ann, and fourteen
hundred lives.
And now young men of high AMI, 10y degree,
Your attention, your attention | AK;
Secer leave the land for a ure upon the seq
YOU'D Far better plough, you'd far better NOW,
Than TO go, 70 go fu- u sailor.
Never leave the land-!on't a sailing go,
For feaT you may suHer tire sane melancholy
and narrowing fate tha- hvrnll the gallant Cap
tain Grlycs, his energetic and worthy crew,
AMI tn" very valgailr cargo on board the III
fi'cd vessel; being, a. : have already Informed
my r"l iers, the total loss u the good sLlp
Polly Ann and fourteen hundred lives.
A-ter.us Ward is a name familiar enough.
but ArteInu. Ward n ,oca. editor OF \ t.eve-
Land journal forty years ago is scarcely known
even to his own COuutryInen. My design has
been u illustrate him briefly IL that character.
As "lural' II the Plan Hcl'fr, it Was his bust
ness-as II was that ~ the other locals for
their respective ~Iourna.s-to gather al the
news of the city, Il labOT!Ous tasA tar one man.
In ordinary. Brownies items" were neither
better nor worse in style than those OF Lis con
temporarie-. 1t was on particular topics or
occasions that his peculiar hUmOr manifested
Itself. and Usually then at the expense OF some
distortion OF the exact truth. But the public
keenly reiiShed his tun. Ny quotations might
be extended, but the foregoing otttg ~ Efficient
variety to exhibit his eC,entrl"lties in that
in which he made the principal part
of his iame-tna- Of city e4itor.' or, more
properly. thRt OF \ news gatherer for the CleNe-
land pam ItutcT.