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“ Everything he saw assumed a comical aspect, and he saw fun everywhere, even at the funeral of a man noted for his bitter speech, where he remarked, "Well, after all, he makes a nice quiet corpse." His lips were always smiling. His very looks, with all his assumption of gravity, were provocative of laughter. In the summer of 1858, when twenty-four years old, he went to Cleveland to write for the Plaindealer, and his connection with this paper enlarged his reputation and its circulation. ”

“ The "Moral Show" took Cleveland by storm, and scarcely a day passed without some country reader of the Plaindealer applying at its counting-room for a sight of the "Kankaroo," the moral "Bares" and the wonderful wax "figgers." After several years' connection with the Plaindealer, he removed to New York, and for a while was a contributor to, and afterwards editor of, a short-lived journal, Vanity Fair. ”

“ It may be said of him that he made the world happier by his living in it. Laughter is a good medicine, and he compounded it with skill and prescribed it with unfailing success. He provided in his will for an asylum for printers and for the care of their orphan children; for the education of a young man in whom he had become interested, and for his widowed mother, for whom during his life he showed an affection peculiarly beautiful. His published works are: Artemns Ward, His Book. Artemus Ward, His Travels (1865) ; Artemus Ward in London (1867) ; Artemus Ward's Lecture (1869) . ”