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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3383, 25 October 1879, Page 4

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Mark Twain has recently invented a patent scrap book. . The "Printers Circular,", published in Philadelphia, in reviewing it says:—"This able work of the great American humourist ia no joke. It is jUst what it pretends to be—a patent acrap-book; and weil worthy it is of a patent, being in every way a. desirable, convenient, and handsome scrap-book. Being a self-paster, it is always ready for use, without any-necessity fur using paste and brush. We append i wain's estimate of his ingenious scrap-book :—■'My dear l§lote,— I hare invented and patented anew scrap-book, not to make money put pf it, but to economise the profanity of this country...; You know that when the average man wants to put something in his scrap-book he can't find his paste — then he iwears; or,; if he finds it, it is dried so hard that it is only fit to eat— then he swears; if he uses mucilage it mingles with the, ink, and next year lie caitffTead Jais'scrap-^the retult; is!barrel* and barrels of profanity. This can all be saved and devoted to other irritating things, where .it will do, more real and lasting good, simply by substituting my self-pastjng - scrap-book for; the oldfashioned one. . It' Messrs Slate, Woodman, and Co*, wish to publish this scrapbook of mine, I shall be willing. You see by the above paragraph that is.a sound moral work, aud this will commend it to the editors: and clergymen, and in fact, to all right feeling people. If you want testimonials I can get them, and of the best sort, and from the best people. One of the most refined and cultivated young ladies iv Hanford (daughter of a clergyman) told me herself, with grateful tears standing in her eyes, that since she hadbegun using my scrap-book she had not'sWoifn a single oath? "