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XLITHE CREAM OF COMSTOCK HUMORWith the adjournment of the legislature, Samuel Clemens returned toVirginia City distinctly a notability--Mark Twain. The shards of broken pottery, some small, some quite large, sometimes had sketches instead of inscriptions. Not necessarily, said Ramses. One caneasily imagine Clemens's enthusiasm over a banal project like that; hisimpulses were always rainbow-hued, whether valuable

Huh, Moses--three hundred miles fortyyears--why, Ben Holiday would have brought them through in thirty-sixhours! --[Ben Holiday, owner of the Overland stages, and a man of greatexecutive ability. You can't see it. I wrote fifty-two letters for the San Francisco Alta California duringthe Quakes City excusion, about half of which number have been printedthus far. We can listen so much better.