Mark Twain's Latest.

Evening Star, Issue 8553, 27 June 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)

Mark Twain's Latest.

Mark Twain made plenty of fun for a delighted audienoe at Bryn Mawr College the other day. "I have been elected an honorary member of the class of '94," said Mr Clemens. " I feel deeply grateful to my fellow classmates for the oompliment they have done me, the more bo because I feel I have never deserved such treatment, I will reveal a secret to you. I have an ambition; that I may go up and up on the ladder of education until at last I may be a Professor of Bryn Mawr College. I would be a professor of telling anecdotes. This art is not a very useful one, but it is a very high one. One class of anecdotes is that which contains only words. You begin almost as you please, and talk and talk until your allotted time, and close when you are ready. I will illustrate this by a story of an Irish and Scotch christening. In this Scotoh-Iriah village a baby had been born, and a large number of friends had collected to sea it christened. The minister, thinking this a good opportunity of displaying his oratorical powers, took the baby in his handß, Baying : ' He is a little fellow, yes, a little fellow ; and as I look in your faces I see an expression of scorn which suggests that you despise him. But if you had the soul of a poet and the Rift of prophecy you -would not despise him. You would look far into the future and see what it might be. Consider how small the acorn is from which grows the mighty oak. So this little child may be a great poet and write tragedies, or a great statesman, or perhaps a future warrior wading in blood to his neck; he may be—er—what is his name? His name, oh, is Mary Ann.'"—'Philadelphia Record.' If the seat of intellect is in the stomach, as some people have held, the two-headed girl must experience an awful disappointment in not being able to surprise her other half with a secret. The Texas Senate has passed a Bill to establish an industrial institute for the education of girls in the arte and dcfendes,