. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. The night I was there a Chinese comic vocalist sang a Chinese comicsong. It took him six weeks to finish it — but as my time was limited Iwent away at the expiration of 215 verses. There were 11,000 verses to this song—the chorus being Tural lural dural, ri fol day which was repeated twice at the end of each verse- making—as you will at once see — the appalling number of 32,000 tural lural dural, ri foldays and the man still Virginia City — in the bright new State of Nevada. A wonderful li
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. The night I was there a Chinese comic vocalist sang a Chinese comicsong. It took him six weeks to finish it — but as my time was limited Iwent away at the expiration of 215 verses. There were 11,000 verses to this song—the chorus being Tural lural dural, ri fol day which was repeated twice at the end of each verse- making—as you will at once see — the appalling number of 32,000 tural lural dural, ri foldays and the man still Virginia City — in the bright new State of Nevada. A wonderful little city — right in the heart of the famous Washoe silver regions the mines of which annually produce over twenty-five millions of solid silver. This silver is melted into solid bricks — ofabout the size of ordinary house-bricks —? and carted off to San Fran-cisco with mules. The roads often swarm with these silver wagons. One hundred and seventy-five miles to the east of this place are theEeese River silver mines—which are supposed to be the richest in theworld. The great American Desert in winter-time the desert which is so frightfully gloomy always. No trees no houses no people —
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