Year: 1871

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From the Chicago Tribune.l


We have already given liberal ex
tracts from the lecture which Mark
Twain delivered in this city on Monday
evening. The matter pans out 80 we'll
both in literary and humorous point
of view, that we append few more
passages taken from the copious notes
OF our reporter: 80


LAKE TAHOE.


"One of the most attractive portions
OF the lecture and also one Of the most
polished, was description ofthe. Lake
Tahoe in Nevada. 1t is situated many
thousand feet above the level Of the sea,
and vet it never freezes. Not the thin.
nest film of ice is ever seen upon its
surface. And yet, Lake Donner, which
is at about the same altitude and not
far distant, is covered thickly with ice
every winter. Here is nut for scien,
lists to crack, said the humorist. The
question is not why Lake Donner
freezes, but why Lake Tahoe does not
freeze. Silver mining not furnishing
the seeker after wealth with steady EN-.
ployment, a large portion Of the time
was spent in a boat on this beautiful
lake. II was 30 clear that the pebbles
on it's bottom were visible at a great
depth. The extreme depth Of the water
was about one e.fourth OF q mile. The
audience was asked to imagine the
number OF church spires that could be
placed one above the other before the
surface was reached. The curative
properties of the water and the atmo-
sphere OF this region are most remark
able. Every consumptive invalid was
urged to throw physic to the dogs, and
make their systems strong and perfect
by a little camp life at Lake Tahoe.
Said the speaker:


"If it don't cure them, will bury
them. shall be glad to bury them-I
shall be glad to do it. l will give them
a funeral that will be comfort to them
as long as they live. But it will cure
them. | met q man there-he had
been a man once-now he was nothing
but shadow, and very poor shadow
at that-and that man had come there
deliberately to die, and what sickly
failure he made OF it! He was in dead
earnest. He had heard that this air was
easy and soothing to breathe, as God
knows it is and he had simply come
there to have what comfort he might
while life ebbed away. And he had
brought along a plan Of his private
graveyard, and pictures and drawings
OF different kinds Of cofins and hearses,
and such things, and he never did any
thing but cit around and study that
graveyard, and figure at coffins, and
such things, trying to make up his mind
which kind he liked best, or which
kind would be most becoming. And
when I saw that man three months
afterward he was chasing mountain
sheepover . mountain seven miles high,
with q Sharp's rifle. He did not get
them, but he chased them all the same.
And he had used up all his graveyards,
and coffins-all bis plans and pictures,
for vaddiug, and sent for more.


When first saw him, his clothes
hung about him-why, they did not
fit him any more than . circus tent
fits tie tent poles, but now they
clung to him like court plaster. He
could hardly breathe without starting 9
seam. He weighed ton-he weighed
more than . ton. / throw in the odd
oupce.-eleven, / think it was. But
know what l am talking about because
I took him TO the hay scales myself
There was lot OF US stood there with
him. ..N >,
But, really, that was q remarkable
cure. I have exaggerated it . little
You might not have noticed it. But
still il was q cure, and very remarka
be one. wish you would not heed
| nv nonsense, but simply take note O
nv earnest words. I think il l could
persuade one invalid TO 60 there
should feel - il l had done one thinf
worth having accomplished. ! am
| really sincere about that.


-RocKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP.


"If there 10 . sportsman in this audi
| snce, l say to him, shoulder your CUR