Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-01-10
TIE EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

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"MAEK TwA'N.'-AlmOst every body who
faLc.,s Lc kuu-,- = good thing, in the humorous
Wy, ..i"n hs secs OF hears IT, wa on h.nd
I..tu H. 20 a. i-t at the d"bG; ol NJ. CIemen.
CIL,IWse Known As M ,Tk Twain as 4
kttIttI.
III, s,t &c, announced was s.Ergzen TRUTH,
Tut a. IN In" e.Isc of tie WeI.-reu smDsrcd
'',Is ,UrsiN," D. u @ of the lamsnted @ArIanus
v NT',' Upon - h. BIbs in the WO NJ IN
TL-,A ;Ls atdj, nee wee favor d with oliy -
s.uCle aiiu-IOn TO the bab-s, to the effect TN t
tG'y w,-, the Children OF poor, but rysp c,ablp
aI'Its, aLd died young, 30 in this discour 90
OF Hat Hi-Lt, the promised geld fIcts never
made th'sr appearances, though anXiousIy
10, krO Tor by literal sDIt OF hearers.
1 lie tLT, I'd Of the lecture was a RAINING re-
NItw Il the rcnowned excursion OF t-r,. n "
IEEI&ud pilsTiHls, per Il amer QuIker & II.
10 tie Holy Land. and this trip, illustrated
nCm tie '-N.rk Twain" point of view, al,JrI-
ed HaiS 7 for = mo a.eessfuI attack upon the
rIsILi,>. las description Of the sess--Ich pill
sTlm,, (the i!srIu.s Le iIkeG, hut dldn '.iooa'
OI > Ol tue arsT~V V.t,n- doctor, who was cJn-
uI,any m@kiuE E'limself disa. reeIbIe by b,,v-
inE IT, To, tL-Ishr and the heart Iise;lsa though
r'EoustI1t,d with; Of the fellO travel yyIo
sItUp all night. on tue watch for ScyIla aud
"
CfRUss-.:; his personal description of tn. En-
I,r.T, y no treated him 50 Kindly add frankly,
Hing HIM he could leave whenever he want
Cd :" his rough experience in Syria, tie on y
III, u IuC TrmIui~CrncS Of which wis tn, :. IN
hs had TIA" cholera a Damascus; his mI.iIe-
ma;lcai g, ,mp2rI>on oI the proportion Of arabic
land 70 Gvs' TtIn ri1 TO thar of absolute lemon
al TIE ie- known as lrmoG pies, ~ his Wash
ingtsn hotel: his - armIy expressed detestation
OF the NIllIinoGs cJnels that were ALWAYS try
Ing to b.te yOu Wheu YOU hadn't done any-
thing to ''m: bis UHans WeTable argument
sgaInst matrimOny, found i'll the fact that the
sultan Eas 80 wives and isn't happy; his
al caI tJndum app. n to his bachelor anditJrs
apr,p pes tu this IA uchnsss of matrImony How
would yoE like your sleeping apartment Ium-
b,Isd up with . .. : six feet long and thirteen
Iundr.d i-et ;,i. =: his COmparison of the
public institutions, buildings and n. m.onuments
of th" u =. Ia those of the Old World: his
proud claim that no quarter of the Old World
has So a q monument a, the Washington Mon
um"nt; and that no officials there are more ef-
hciCnt and patriotic. or collect their salaries
more promptly than our members of Congress
the" and a thousand other kindred touches
and points, served 10 give piquancy To he lee
ture- In the didacuc portions he was not so
sfsCtiys, his voice and sTyIs being net favor
MARX Twain III a certain grotesque fanci-
ful hUmoT reEli1ds one of sArtemus Ward
and though not IN any sense an irnitator his
humorous dt sCrIptlOn OF the incon yenienceS
and E"rple kite experienced by the Sultau
with ms suTplusaSe OF wives, was much in the
same vein "A. Ward-S'' description of the
xindT'd tribulations Of Brigham Young. In
y'rsCn hr- Clemens Il not the kind of III IN the
spectator .-cXprcted To SEE OF mesiuTn size
i ,a-t-iron inr'@xihility of ie.iturs, grave lace
'yCs that lack expression from their neutral
hU" and the light color OF tine brows 2 dr:tvyI-
ing r,h, ano general air of being abou
half asleep. Mark Twain has a very un-
promising look for humOr. Many Of the au-
dience last n Igkt supposed that his sIowness OF
hI~-ch and movement was stage MANNER I'D
fUt hat VS. 4 mistake. That Impertu -babla
crawl Is habitual 10 him; and he is probably
the lazi"st walker that ever stepped. In hi
most nu'nt and yiyaciOus moods he has never
teen known to di>gorge more thar ten words
per minute; and the saunter of Walt WhitmIn
y a rae -hors" pace compared with his snlil-
like Progress over the ground.