Their idol may be painted clay, up then at the surface, and fade and waste and crumble and blow away, there being much weather there; but down below he is gold and adamant and indestructible." V.
This is from this morning's paper: MARK TWAIN LETTER SOLD.
_Written to Thomas Nast, it Proposed a Joint Tour._ A Mark Twain autograph letter brought $43 yesterday at the auction by the Merwin-Clayton Company of the library and correspondence of the late Thomas Nast, cartoonist.

The letter is nine pages note-paper, is dated Hartford, Nov.

12, 1877, and it addressed to Nast.

It reads in part as follows: Hartford, _Nov.

12_.
MY DEAR NAST: I did not think I should ever stand on a platform again until the time was come for me to say I die innocent.