[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!