Nye Bill

Bill Nye's Sparks


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       Bill Nye

      Bill Nye's Sparks

      Published by Good Press, 2021

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066183370

       BIOGRAPHICAL

       BILL NYE'S SPARKS

       REQUESTING A REMITTANCE

       [Personal.]

       A PATENT ORATORICAL STEAM ORGANETTE FOR RAILWAY STUMPING

       VERITAS

       THE DRUG BUSINESS IN KANSAS

       THE PERILS OF IDENTIFICATION

       A FATHER'S LETTER

       THE AZTEC AT HOME

       IN THE SOUTH

       IN THE PARK

       LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD.

       HE SEES THE CAPITAL

       HE SEES THE NAVY

       MORE ABOUT WASHINGTON

       A GREAT BENEFACTOR

       DIVORCES PREPARED

       WHILE YOU WAIT!

       THE COUPON LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

       HOW TO TEACH JOURNALISM

       THE GREAT WESTERN CLAIRVOYANT,

       HIS GARDEN

       WRITTEN TO THE BOY

       ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

       TRIFOLIATA,

       BELOVED DAUGHTER OF

       GERALD AND VASELINE TUBBS,

       DIED MARCH 27,1888.

       SHE CAUGHT COLD IN HER FRONT NAME.

       THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF.

       A CONVENTIONAL SPEECH

       A PLEA FOR ONE IN ADVERSITY

       THE RHUBARB-PIE

       A COUNTRY FIRE

       FRESH PAINT!

       ALONZO BURLINGAME,

       BIG STEVE

       SPEECH OF RED SHIRT, THE FIGHTING CHIEF OF THE SIOUX NATION

       TO THE POOR SHINNECOCK

       WEBSTER AND HIS GREAT BOOK

       Table of Contents

      Edgar Wilson Nye was whole-souled, big-hearted and genial. Those who knew him lost sight of the humorist in the wholesome friend.

      He was born August 25, 1850, in Shirley, Piscataquis County, Maine. Poverty of resources drove the family to St. Croix Valley, Wisconsin, where they hoped to be able to live under conditions less severe. After receiving a meager schooling, he entered a lawyer's office where most of his work consisted in sweeping the office and running errands. In his idle moments the lawyer's library was at his service. Of this crude and desultory reading he afterward wrote:

      "I could read the same passage today that I did yesterday and it would seem as fresh at the second reading as it did at the first. On the following day I could read it again and it would seem as new and mysterious as it did on the preceding day."

      At the age of twenty-five, he was teaching a district school in Polk County, Wisconsin, at thirty dollars a month. In 1877 he was justice of the peace in Laramie. Of that experience he wrote:

      "It was really pathetic to see the poor little miserable booth where I sat and waited with numb fingers for business. But I did not see the pathos which clung to every cobweb and darkened the rattling casement. Possibly I did not know enough. I forgot to say the office was not a salaried one, but solely dependent upon fees. So while I was called Judge Nye and frequently mentioned in the papers with consideration, I was out of coal half the time, and once could not mail my letters for three weeks because I did not have the necessary postage."

      He wrote some letters to the Cheyenne Sun and soon made such a reputation for himself that he was able to obtain a position on the Laramie Sentinel. Of this experience he wrote:

      "The salary was small, but the latitude was great, and I was permitted to write anything that I thought would please the people, whether it was news or not. By and by I had won every heart by my patient poverty and my delightful