The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-10-31

Anecdotes Showing That His Humor IL
Not Confinsd to His writings.
Mark Twain ut home is not more
serious than his writings would lead
one to expect. Ho has always been
fond of perpetrating jokes for which
his wife has only Of late years. through
practical education. been able to pre-
pare herself
When, for instance, Mr.. Clemens, on
the lecture platform, once drew out a
dilapidated handkerchief, worn to
shreds, and after gazing at 1t in an as
tonished fashion, apologized. saying
that no had been .obliged to borrow
one from Mr.. -" naming some i'm
portant parsonage Of the town. his
wife, sitting with fricnd in the audi
ence. has turned to her neighbor in the
most distressed way and said:
People will think | do not properly
take care of my husbands clothes"
It is true that Mr.. Clemens has no
tendency toward dudishness, and that
he sometimes appears in u costume
more BETTING poor author than a
Observation-Disclosures; but every body
has his taste! Hc is careless and alb
sent-minded, and sometimes forgets
some of the requirements OF the age tor
the establishment of mankind.
At any rate. he is said 10 have called
upon Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe with
out necktie one day after her return
from the South. When he came back
from his visit he hurried to his wife to
tell her how their neighborhad with
stood the journey and Of the present
condition OF her health. But no was
stopped in the midst Of his story by the
Mortified look in his wife's face.
"You don't mean to say that you
have been to see Mrs Stowep" said
she. why. you haven't got on any
| pecktie.n
He protested great chagrin at his
carelessness and rushed up stairs, up
parently to remedy the defect in hi.
toilet. When he came back. some
time later. he laughingly tossed hi
wife q letter and a necktie.
i seems that Mr.. Clemens had writ
ten to Mrs. Stowe In his own inimita
bio fashion that as he had found he hai
committed the objectionable crime 0
calling on her without necktie h,
now sent her one. hoping to mitigat,
the sentence which she would pass upon
him for his carelessnesa The not,
which he handed his wife was cleve
| reply which Mrs. Stowe had sent baol
with the necktie. Toledo Blade.
1T is believed by naturalists tina
cartridges never indulge in moro thai
twelve eggs for setting" and con
sequently the Smithsonian institute
has for several years offered q rewar,
OF ten dollars for q partridges nest con
tanning more than q dozen eggs. Re
certify party of Worcester girl
pulled down the purse by presenting
nest containing fifteen eggs
The man that guesses at probabil.
tiles often oyerrcaches the man that
waits for the truth.
One may ruin himself by frank.
ness, but one surely dishonors himself
BY duplicity. tieiilard.
Cherish your best hopes as faith
and abide by them in action. Sucl,
shall be the effectual means to their
fnlfliment
1T Is great misfortune not to have
enough wit TO speak well, or no,
enough Judgment 70 keep silent -
La Bruyere.
Restraint and liberty go hand in
hand in the development of character
indeed without tho former the latter
Is impossible,
--Good qualities nre tho substantial
riches OF tho mind; but it is good.
breeding that sets them off to udvan-
tage. Locke
Some persons never get further out
Of their own little circle than the
wooden horses in the merry go-round.
jamestown News
No state can be more destitute
than that OF a person. who, when the
delights OF sense forsake hia, has no
pleasures Of the mind. -Burgh.