BROWNE, CHARLES FARRAR, an American humorist, better known as " ARTEMIIS WARD," was h. in Waterford. Me., in 1836, and graduated from the free village school into a printing-office--the American boy's college. As a printer's boy, lie worked in all the principal towns in New England, until settled at Boston. where lie began to write comic stories and essays. A roving disposition carried him to the west, and he was as local editor in Toledo, and later in Cleveland, Ohio, where his letters from " Artemus Ward, showman," a pretended exhibitor of wax figures and wild beasts, first attracted general attention. In 1860, he became a contributor to Vanity Fair, a New York comic weekly paper; and being invited to lecture, soon became very popular and attractive. As a lecturer, in 1808, lie visited California, making the overland trip, visit ing Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital, and drawing crowds in every town he visited. In 1864, he opened his illustrated lectures on California and Utah in New York, with immense success; and in 1866, was induced to visit England, where he became a con.
tributor to Punch, and gave his lecture on the Mormons in the metropolis, at the Egyp tian hall, Piccadilly. nut while convulsing crowded audiences with laughter, he was wasting with pulmonary disease. Early in 1867, he went to Guernsey for a milder air, but with no benefit; and was about to embark for America, when he died at South ampton, Mar. 6, 1807. He was tall, slender, with striking features, and a most amiable character, which attracted and attached to him many friends. By his will, after pro viding for his mother, leaving legacies to his friends, and his library to the best boy in the school of his native village, he left the bulk of his property in trust to Horace Greeley to provide an asylum for printers. His collected writings, which have had a wide circulation in America and England, are Artemus Ward His Book; Artemus Ward among the Mormons; Artemis It among the Fenians; and a posthumous collection and biography entitled Artemus Ward in England.