FOOTNOTES
[1] I have also heard "seven" million dollars.
[2] The word "Yankee" is a corruption of the word "English," and only applies to the people of New England.
[3] I read in a large Eastern daily paper, under the head of "Kansas News": "A clergyman in Kansas has just had his nose bitten off by a member of his flock, who took exception to some of his remarks in the pulpit."
[4] I have had this opinion corroborated since by all the public speakers and artists with whom I have spoken on the subject.
[5] I think a clock is borrowed for the occasion.
[6] This new craze was upon every tongue at the beginning of the year. I was assured that, "being ill, you have only to determine with all your soul that you will get well, and you are forthwith restored to health." Mind is universal: you are part of the universal mind, and nothing can really ail you. So runs the jargon of the sect.
[7] Mark Twain is the chief partner in the firm of Charles Webster and Co., New York.
[8] Mr. Grover Cleveland has been through it.
[9] I have seen, in American papers, European telegrams of 2,000 and even 3,000 words—at sixpence a word.
[10] My manager, as the reader will observe, was one of the rare Americans who are not Colonels.
[11] America has just lost this excellent actor.
[12] I once made this statement before a London audience. An Englishman was heard to remark to his neighbour: "Is this a fact I wonder?"
[13] If you press it twice, it is a two-horse cab that comes.
[14] It is with deep sorrow that I learn, while writing these lines, of the death of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, to whom I owe many charming hours spent in New York.
[15] One day in November, 1887, the thermometer stood at 78 in Washington. Next day all the puddles in the gutters were frozen, and the mercury marked only 17 above zero, making a fall of 61 degrees in a night!
[16] Whilst the heat kept up within doors varies from 75 to 80 degrees, the temperature outside may be 10, 20, or 30 degrees below zero. What a Turkish bath, indeed!
[17] Mark the attractive buzzing of all these s's.
[18] Even in the morning, after twenty or thirty people have passed the night in the car, it is quite difficult to get the ventilators opened to change the air.