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Our One Literary Midas

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
September
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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From the Cleveland Leader. Mark Twaiu ia the literary Midas of the United States. Everytliing he touche turns straight into gold. He is now worth about a million, and his income varié.running high into the tbousaudsof dollar yearly. I am told by a friend of his tha he madr $30,000 as his shareof the prdftfc of the Twnin-Cable reHdinrs last year.am tliat ' Huckleberry Plnn " has brought ii soinewlieiein the lifllghborhood of$7o,000 He experts to make a great pile off of tlie Grimt Memoirs, and in order togetthein for pabllcation he mnde terms with the G rauta wliich other publishers did not dare to inake. As Twaln aid : " They did no appreciate ttie magnitude of the occasion.' His scrap-book whioh he invented tor his own use an) Ihen patented, bas brought a fortune to its makers, and nearly a million of copies of it havo been sold withiu the past ei;ht years. Mark Twain is now 60 years old, or he will be in November. When he wrote "Innocents Abroad " at Washington, less than twenty years ago, he was living in a second class boardinf? house in a litlle back room, which was he.ited with a sheet-iron stove. Now he has an elegant residence al Hartford, Conn., Ulied with the treasures of furniture and plcturea whicU he hus ffathered in bis tours over the world. In this home at Hartford, Mark Twain's workshop is in hls billiard room at the top of the house, and when he grows tired of pushing the pen he rlses and eases his muscles by doing some scientiflc strokes with tlie cue. A Hartford man told me the other dny he was calling on Twain in this room at one time during the pust year, when the fire in the glate threw tomé iparka out upon the floor. These cangnt sume loóse paper and the room for a moment promlsed to break out in ilames. "Twain wusplaying billiardsat the time,'' says the man, "anti he did not stop his gaine. He immediately rung for the servitnl-, and lazily told them ihat they had better extinguiah the üre, and witli that he leaned over the table and made a slrokc with his billiard cue which would have done honor to the world's ehampion. Twain," said this man, "never getS.BKeited."

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Ann Arbor Courier
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