MARK TWAIN

at a glance the contents of a column. But here I must spell
the column through, and it takes an hour.

When the King and Queen of Wiirtcmbcrg were here
they double-banked the "Holy Land" with soldiers, who
shouted: "lie's coming!"

I would like to be Kmperor awhile.

Apparently he has almost recovered from the
fierce attack of king-phobia that had caused
him to rage, through the period of writing the
in Kiti^ Arthur's Court.

Feb. 14. Prof. Helmholty, called.

The Court CJay.ette of a (lerman paper can be covered
with a playing-card. In an Knglish paper the movements
of tilled people take up about ihree times that room. In
the papers of the Republic of France from six to sixteen
times as much. There, if a duke's dug should catch a cold
in the head they would stop the press to announce it and
cry about it. In Germany they respect titles, in England
they revere them, in France they adore them, that is, the
French newspapers do.

Been taken for Mommsen twice. We have the same
hair, but upon examination it was found that our brains
were different.

Thirty days sick abed — full of interest — read the de-
bates and get excited over them, though I don't under-
stand- By reading keep in a state of excited ignorance.
Like a blind man in a house afire — flounder around — im-
mensely, but unintclligently, interested, don't know how
I got in and can't find the way out but I am having a
booming time all to myself,

Don't know what a "Schclgeseteentwurf" is, but I keep
as excited over it and as worried about it as if it was my

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