The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1869-01-19

MAX TwAix.-Mssk Tawin bsins N old
Ksokukian, our readers will be pleased to
read this notice Of his lecture at DaysnpoFe:
Il il from the Gasstte: 'AaTk Twain, ~
veil. known humorist, lsctured = NJ Opsfs
Hodse, lat evening, under the saspices o.
The Library Association: The largest Ard
most brilliant audisnoe, ofshe lecture ssasoo,
thus far, greeted the speaker. The lecturers
sub;ect va Tho vAnda Abroad He sid
he w. mol exa<s'y embarrassed to b iatro-
doced IN % public anannes, -he ra1her
liked Il. He accompanied the Quaker City
Expedition to the. Burmsdas, Paris, the
C,imea, Constantinople, Palestine, Rome,
Athens and ether portions Of the old world.
Here CAME in the 'Vsndsl.' The lecturer
pitched into the guides who beset and belay
American travellers in Europe, making the
laugh come with his description Of their Of
forts, He gave ludicrous history Of Col
umbus and the Egyptian Mummy to which he
was introduced 1t Genoa and Rome respec'
lively. He didn't like the mummy, preferrins
: fresh corpse The true American Vsndal
il not remarkably we'll versed in science, arts
and antiquities, bat 10 sure to be 1t home
anywhere. In the grand Quaker City holy
Land funeral excnrsion,' WAS doctor, who
vas in.rnduced TO the audience a. tie
s.upidsst Of fellows, who knew everything.
He prescribed for sailor who WAS troubled
with An horizontal parsllex,' for which
doctor prescribed four shovslsful OF laud-
anum four times . day, and > mustard
plaster about the size Of saddle, scross the
small Of his back, the laadanun 70 put him
asleep and tho blister to wake him up, for
he must be kept active. The Vandal il never
astopished. He will sand unabashed in the
presence Of one Pope, two or three Kings
and Grsndees innumerable, and will stand
unawed, unsubdued, and pick his teeth be-
fore the venerable, time>honored, time-defy-
ing placid face Of the Sphynx. Hero came :
description Of the Sphynx which is almost
sublime in expression and thought.
The true homo Of the Vandal is Paris
he drinks champagne in large quantities,
attends to oil the plays, weeps whom the
crowd weeps, and splits and stamps when
other people do the same, though he cannot
tell the dialogue from the scenery. He learns
to talk French so we'll in six weeks that be is
constantly abusing tho Parisians for not
knowing their own language. He knew one,
who, on his return, failed to answer the SAL
utations Of bis Friends. he had become 80 IA
milar with his adopted name that he found
it difficult to recognize his original one.
After doing Paris he generally goes to
Genoa, to see the birthplace Of Columbus
and get stone from the very house where he
was born. II has been estimated that Ill
the stones taken from that house, if COLLECTS
cd, would build one "A, 900 feet long and l6.-
600 feet high.
/" But We have not time to follow Marx
Twain through the whole Of bis intensely
spicy lecture. With his "party" hs did II .
Crimea where relic hunter cou'd fad 10
other relic Of the war than . hiI b me of .
horse which he labelled "jaw bono Of Gen
eral" and carried of in triumph; be de.
scribed Milan, with ito Cathedral and skinned
man Venice, with all its peculiarities Of
canal, palace, gondol. and sondolief Whose
songs the Vandal suppressed in four minutes)
Athens, the description Of which ~ viewed
from its ruin-crowned heights, Vas marvel
lousy beautiful visit to tho Emperor Of
Russia, the only real friend America has
among the monarchs Of Europe, with whom
the party had = good time, - we'll q .
breakfast with the Grand Duke-each refer
ence being interlsrded with unlocked for
4spiints of Wit and humor which set his
hearers in . roar. He il not . remarkably
good looking man-nor . bad looking one
either. His eyes are deep-set beneath .
noble forehead, which il surmountsd by dark
curling hair. His manner is peculiar; he
hangs round loose, leaning on the desk, OF
flirting round the corner Of it; then march.
ing and counter marching in the rear of i,
and talking with . kind Of monotonous
drawl. 1t Was mighty good lecture