Show I THELATEMIUaiNNEK I TUB EDITOIt OF PUCK WAS A PROLIFIC WRITER llririel la Now lasts from the Test lorn a Ilr and MoretwIrd as a Nowtipnoer 31anIttedis u InOnll1 Iuno of sit II lifelity C IIUNNKIt editor of Puck who re n cenlly died of consumption WH con-sumption wan born iPi In Oswego New York Aug t ISM rJ J lie went to New i V York an a boy nnd prepared forColum I bla Although In at mil ot going to I college he entered 11 the employ of Messrs Amilnck r Co Merchants ho early Khowel a strong I literary I bent nod his reading omnivorous omniv-orous and < l unhampered ted him over n wide ranK ot subject and < l Into many littlefrequented I byways of literature I He rarely forgot anything he had once re id and his mind became n 1 storehouse store-house of valuable and often nmaslng r Information MI disposed and classified I as In be limUntly available While he may have mined hla I college course others Lever missed It In him and the honorary degiee of A M which was recently re-cently conferred on him by Yale was mare than a graceful compliment lluslnem life not strangely proved uncongenial and In 1873 he gave It up nod look to writing contributing to the Arcadian n weekly periodical which led a brief but exciting existence and Mrvlng is porter on the World < and Sun When the lltullsh Puck won started by Adolf Schwirimann and Joseph Keppler In 1877 with Sidney IloMnfeld as nlltor lImner became assistant editor and very toon sue j ceettloil l his ctetcr hut Impractical chief ltn His output Ht this I time was mormons The entire paper WM wrltttn by two or three men tho lloni share of work always falling1 to Ilunner IMIlorlnlt poems jokes dialogues Puerto came front his pen In prodigal profusion For Paine time the paper was a doubtful doubt-ful experiment hut Milliners filth In It never trarered When largely through his encouragement and Industry Its I KUCCMS WM assured and he was relieved re-lieved of mueli of the oliltlme drud gory he began to contribute to the I magazines the stories and verse II IIO = through 1 which his permanent reputation reputa-tion M a writer was made Hut his I lonlly to Puck never faltered lie worked constantly to make It something I some-thing more than merely a humorous piper Ho succeeded Ills short fear I Im trenchant editorial were power on tho side of honest government anti latterly many of hU man charming i short starlets have appeared first In tho paper which he edited 1 TenV N rt TfW Mr Ilunnsr married I Mine Alice Learned of Nex london and soon after they went to live In Nut I ley Now Jersey Ills family consists i of two daughters and a son Litirence nimel after his friend Laurence 1 Hutton I Hut-ton In Nutley Mr Banner learned to love the country ns snarls as he continued con-tinued to love the city He surrounded < iilniMlf with flowers and animals In great variety n donkey pigs rabbits I I and bird ol various plumage while no I frlcndlMw cot or dog won ever turned from his door I Here ho h1 l a happy healthful life I but the germs of Inherited disease 1 nere already ut work The svmpa thstle humanity which characterizes life Ktorki and his essays chnracterlic the ui3n When he should < 1 have raved Ms strength he give It lavishly for oih ers Yet he never mlistd tho humorous vide of rny situation and the relief which thlt capacity afforded him doubt lew I kept him up long I after he had exceeded ex-ceeded tho limits which nature ordinarily ordinar-ily lmpocn Ho Will n delightful com pinion and n natlif > Inx helpful friend the umo man In roil lIfo that he was 7e I T th I V11111i 1 II C IIUNNUft t to those who know him only In his books stores 10 u OutlllJ The proprietor ol a large hotel at Atlantic At-lantic City noted for tho alch standard ot his hostelry had a puwlon for keeping keep-ing a solid sliver cup at the lea cooler In the main ofllce A great many ptople cannot resist the temptation to steal a handsome cup and for a lung time the liotcl man was obliged to buy a new cup every two or threat weeln sun he would not yield up his fad but lire year sro made o couijiroralif lie had made a cup I of solid silver sil-ver In the shape of the ordinary ordi-nary tin Clip found Attached to fountains foun-tains In tin parks The deception was BO cleverly executed that no one ever stupefied the true value of the com 1 monloonng drinking vessel and It has remained ul the cooler now for over three yearn New York Jouinal |