Aurelia's unfortunate young man --
Information for the million --
Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized" --
Lucretia Smith's soldier --
A touching story of George Washington's boyhood --
Advice to little girls --
Answers to correspondents --
From California almanac --
Brief biographical sketch of George Washington --
A complaint about correspondents --
Concerning chambermaids --
Honored as a curiosity --
An inquiry about insurances --
Literature in the dry diggings --
Origin of illustrious men --
The facts concerning the recent resignation --
General Washington's negro body-servant --
My late senatorial secretaryship --
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's farm --
The case of George Fisher --
An entertaining article --
History repeats itself --
John Chinaman in New York --
Judge's "Spirited Woman" --
The late Benjamin Franklin --
Note on "The Petrified man" --
Riley ; newspaper correspondent --
Wit inspirations of "Two-year-olds" --
The danger of lying in bed --
First interview with Artemus Ward --
My first literary venture --
Portrait of King William III --
"Blanketing" the Admiral --
A genuine Mexican Plug --
The great landslide case --
How the author was sold in Newark --
A hundred and ten tin whistles --
Markiss, King of Liars --
What Hank said to Horace Greeley.
When the buffalo climbed a tree --
A curious pleasure excursion --
A couple of poems by Twain and Moore --
An encounter with an interviewer --
"Party cries" in Ireland --
Petition concerning copyright --
Speech at the Scottish banquet --
Speech on accident insurance --
The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut --
Punch, brothers, punch --
Some rambling notes of an idle excursion --
The Whittier birthday speech.
About magnanimous-incident literature --
The great revolution in Pitcairn --
Ascending the Riffelberg --
The awful German language --
My long crawl in the dark --
Skeleton for a Black Forest novel --
A telephonic conversation --
Why Germans wear spectacles --
Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims --
Concerning the American language --
Legend of Sagenfeld in Germany --
On the decay of the art of lying --
Keelboat talk and manners --
Introduction to "The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English" --
A petition to the Queen of England --
A majestic literary fossil --
About all kinds of ships --
The enemy conquered ; or love triumphant --
Traveling with a Reformer --
Private history of the "Jumping Frog" story --
Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses --
A hell of a hotel at Maryborough --
The Austrian Edison keeping school again --
From "London Times" of 1904 --
My first lie, and how I got out of it --
Does the race of man love a Lord? --
Italian without a master --
