MARK TWAIN

Had some personal acquaintance with all of them—with
Brown intimate.

The physician's is the highest and worthiest of all occu-
pations, or would be if human nature did not make
superstitions and priests necessary.

Board of Foreign Missio?is: "We have saved a Turk's
soul."

"What did it cost?"

"#2,000,000."

"Is it worth that?"

U. S. Government:

"We have killed 200 Indians."

"What did it cost?"

"#2,000,000."

"You could have given them a college education for
that."

Mental Telegraphy: The things which pass through
my mind when I lie awake in the morning are pretty sure
to be the topics introduced by others at breakfast or din-
ner, that day or the next. September 20, 1882.

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