. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. h. While in the office of the Plaindealer, Mr. Browne first con-ceived the idea of becoming a lecturer. In attending the variousminstrel shows and circuses which came to the city, he would fre-quently hear repeated some story of his own which the audiencewould receive with hilarity. His best witticisms came back to himfrom the lips of another, who made a living by quoting a stolenjest. Then the thought came to him to enter the lecture field him-self, and become the utterer of his own witticisms, t
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. h. While in the office of the Plaindealer, Mr. Browne first con-ceived the idea of becoming a lecturer. In attending the variousminstrel shows and circuses which came to the city, he would fre-quently hear repeated some story of his own which the audiencewould receive with hilarity. His best witticisms came back to himfrom the lips of another, who made a living by quoting a stolenjest. Then the thought came to him to enter the lecture field him-self, and become the utterer of his own witticisms, the mouthpieceof his own jests. On the 10th of November, 1860, Charles Browne, whose fame,traveling in his letters from Boston to San Francisco, had nowbecome national, grasped the hands of his hundreds of New Yorkadmirers. Cleveland had throned him the monarch of mirth, anda thousand hearts paid him tributes of adulation as he closed hisconnection with the Cleveland press. Arriving in the Empire City, Mr. Browne soon opened an engage-ment with Vanity Fair, a humorous paper after the manner of.
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