ARTEMUS WARD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 20, 31 October 1879, Page 2

ARTEMUS WARD.

i In repartee Charles Farrow Browne (Axtemus Ward) had scarcely an equal among the journalists of his time, aud his pen was held in wholesome fear by rival members of the fraternity. He had. always a ready answer for any that attacked him, and he used his. power of ridicule in reply to his assailants. One day he found a neat package on his desk, whioh on opening, he discovered was a jack-knife. A reporter of a morning paper — a notoriously homely man — heard of it, and wrote a paragraph to the effect that Browne richly merited the knife. That evening Browne retorted by naming this person, and saying — " He is the homeliest man in America- He Softs' j broken five cameras in endeavouring J to get a picture of himself to send to the children of a bitter personal enemy, maliciously intending to frighten them to death He has been offered a good salary to stand up in a certain field as a scarecrcrw. He is compelled to get up three times every night to rest his face. In his courting days he was totally ~i unsuccessful until he had procured a mask. He has a gait like a sawhorse, and when he w,alks the side- i walks the very brioks recoil in hor- A ror." £M