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Samuel Langhorne, the American humorist, more widely known by;his pseudonym ‘ Mark Twain,' was born in 183$. He was at different times a miner in Nevada, editor of a newspaper in Virginia City, and reporter in San Francisco. In 1866 he went to the Sandwich Islands, and. on his return, began his lecturing career. The Innocents Abroad, A Tramp Abroad, and Life on the Mi i ippi are probably his best-known books.