The career of M irk Twain, the American humorist, read* like a romance. Ro has been in his time, compositor, pilot, clown, gold-digger, reporter and private secretary. Even now, rich and famous as ho is, he doolaros that the happiest days of his life wero when he was pilot on board a Mississippi boat. Mark Twain is humorous only on paper. In his taciturnity he is a Yankee <4 Yankees, and will sit for hours in silent con* temptation with a cigar between bis teeth. Hia humor is only ah elaborate effort after all. He toils like a slave endeavoring to be droll, and It is only after a fourth or fifth revise of hia proofs that the pmo wIJ u Ids |bn becomes appfttouu
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 320, 4 July 1889, Page 2
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125Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 320, 4 July 1889, Page 2
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