About Mark Twain

An oía JaLiiornian says he can readüy remomber when Sam Clemens, as Mark Twain was then called, was a very indigent reporter on the Morning Cali ia San Francisco, not having money enough often to buy hls dinner. He was standing disconsolate one day on the corner of Montgomery street with a cigar-box under nis arm. Aa aoquaintance saw hirn and asked him what he was about ' í am moving, " said the humorist, ' 'and carrying with me all my worldly goods." He then opened the box and displayed hls entire wardrobe, as he styled it - an old clay pipe, a paper collar and a wellwora necktie. He is now worth probably $1,000,000, but he got this, not by writing, but by an advantageous marriage and by the publication of other persons' books, which he considers the only profitable kind of authorship. An intimate friend of Twain says that it is as easy to get a. joke out of him as it is hard to get a dollar.