Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-18

rollicklng -. y. Nhllaber was born al
Portsmouth, N. II. lie was raised
printer, became an editor and acquired
great fame as Mrs, Darlington. ia
died 80 recently as 1890, yet may be
said to have belonged TO the previous
generation Of humorIsts.
II don't blame Prince Alfred" said
Mrs. Partlngton, FOR not Wishing 10
take The throne Of Greece he'd slip on
as sure as you live" She preferred
THE Venus de Medicine to any other
statute she knew Of.
An erratc genius appeared In the
person Of John @, SAKE, 1916, who was
admitted to the bar In 1913, owned and
edited a paper and set the country agog
with his poetry, witty humorous and
not lacking IN polish He died II not
Of melonoholl0 YET a melancholy man
In 1851
In 1917 was born James T. Fields, a
native Of Portsmouth, famous publish
or OF Boston, q scholarly writer who
dearly delighted to tickle the muses.
fancy with queer concelts Close upon
.he heels Of Fields trod the qualntest
and most phiIosophic humorist America
ever saw, Henry Wheeler shaw who
cxtlngulshed his rlghtful name In the
cognomon Ut Josh Billings There was
never another such as Josh except It be
Artamus Ward lie was forty-ilye
years old when he gave Josh Billings TO
The world and was slxty-seyen when
he dled In 1856 There is heap OF
humor In Josh Billings Sayings" not
because Of but despite their phonetic
spelling. 10 prove this look up Uncle
Esek, In which the hard sense IL ap.
parent without the aid Of imagination.
in 1918, also was born =. $. Co2zons
author Of the once famous sparrow
grass Papers" ana "a Sojourn Among
the lIluenoscs.' The next year the
world was blessed with the birth Of
James Russell Lowell. hardly second 70
Holmes az q humoris as those ac-
quainted with bis "Bglow Papers"
can testify In him, as also In Holmes,
hum0r and pathoF were cxqusItely
blended, and II Ia doubtful " either has
been greatly surpassed Both Holmes
and Lowell were, tlfst Of ali, men Of let
ters, and either would have become ia
nous without the expression OF the hui
morous quality. The "Blglow Papers"
abound in photographic peculIarltles
hard for an American to swallow, but
there are many gems Of "purest ray Sc
rene"
Lowells birth year was also that OF
w Il. Travers, more OF wit than hu.
morIst, but one who made many laugh,
Donald c. Mitchell 1k MarveD, who
was seyenty-nlne years old last April,
displayed quiet humor Of the gentle
sort in his "Reyerles OF Bachelor"
aud other works always olasslcally ell
egant though Of the old school style,
q. II. Derby, later and better known az
John Phoenix, was born IN 1923 and
died 1861, few years after the appear
anoe Of his "PhHnlxiana' and SOUL
bob Papers 1856 and 1859.
Americas ripe scholar and genial hui
morist Of the Easy Chair" sort. George
w. Curtis, born 1924, made a "hlt' In
his "PotIphar Papers published years
ago. Like many another humorlst,
however he rather looked askance at
fun In his latter years. He died In
1892 but a humorist Of the rolloklng
sort Charles Godfrey Leland, who was
born the same year as Curtis IS not
only living, but has Just revised his ia
nous Hans Breitman" ballads, which
first appeared more than thirty years
ago, Bin Arp Charles Henry SMITH,
whose humor has the genuine southern
smack to IT, was born In Georgia In
1896, where he still lives In Gainesville.
Major C. @. Hnplne, better known as
Private Miles O'Reilly, was one Of the
few American humorlsts Of foreign
birth. having come from Ireland In
lSi1 lie died in 1853 at the early age Of
thirty-nine, but another humorist,
Charles Dudley Warner born the same
year az Halpine, 1929, nearly reached
the century'se Halplne vase wartime
writer, but Warmers humor Is for all
time, having IN II the essence OF peren-
NAL youth. His delightful Summer In
a Garden" appeared In 1871, and his
equally attractive Backlog Studles'
In 1872 He travelled much wrote much
and died In the fullness Of years and
knowledge.
The decade opening with 1880 yields a
bakers dozen Of humorists who ac-
quired worldwide fame, first on the list
being j. Proctor Knott. author of the
amazing Duluth Speech" in congress
lie WAS born in Kentucky. 1890, and
stlll lives In Danylle. In 1889 appeared
one who wrote yoluminously in after
life az g. X, Philander Doestlcks, p. b..
born Thompson, yclept Mortimer, an
alleged humorlst who during wartime
had quite vogue, but who at his
death LETT little that will long outlast
/ the century
In 1898 was born David Ross Locke
who gave to the world the unctuou.
Petroleum V. Nasty OF "Confedrit y
Roads fame. He swung round IN,
| clrkle" with President Johnson, o.
whom by the way, he once remarked
that 1T would have been $40 In Andy
Johuson's pocket II he'd never beel
born and published "Ekkoes From
Kentucky" Nasty In Exile" as wei
as q tender poem called "Hannal
Jane" Locke (Nasby) died In 1883 aft
er a very busy lie.
The year 1894 was made notable Il
our annals II for nothing else by IN
births Of Charles Farrar Browne Carte