MARK TWAIN'S LAST JOKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 16 July 1910, Page 9

MARK TWAIN'S LAST JOKE.

CHARACTERISTIC APOLOGY. I On April 7th all Banmm and Bailey's clowns—s7 varieties, in every eonceivabel make-up—joined in kissing a bride. With transfers of rouge, lampblack, urease, llesh-color. and chalk that was purple, pink, white, axe-en, yellow and elephant's breath, the lady's face at the end of the congratulations resembled a Sid Lonir pietur'e. The occasion was the marriage of the most eminent clown in | New York to Miss Fanny Maginley, billed as •Tlercula." the earth's strongest woman, who plays catches with cannon balls and does the snail act with her villa residence.' 1 The bridegroom struck the original idea of liavin.' the ceremony conducted in costume, his botinie bride revealing her massive proportions by means of bare biceps and pink tights, and he and his nG groomsmen in the or"villa residence." The bridegroom struck humorist. The wedding duly eventuated in Barnum and Bailey's ring, with the j eilcphant trumpeting the responses, and I the rhinoceros 'cooing his congratula- | tions from his tank. In a true spirit ! of comradeship, the clowns wired to their fellow-humorists, Mark Twain. . (iconic Ade, and e>:-President Roosevelt, invitinsr them to the affair. The former. , very-weak, an! just them endeavoring ' to '>vt the better of the grim practical j joke which the Man with the Scythe wa> I txyinsr to work oil' on him, g"'- the wire : late. His repiy was: "1 am sorry, bnt all last week's dates are 'illed. 1' will gladly come week !>.■■ fore la-t. if that will answei/'