MARK TWAIN'S SKETCHES. 



have lately done) that " The police are positively ordered to arrest all boys, of 

 every description and wherever found, who engage in assaulting Chinamen." 



Still, let us be truly glad they have made the order, notwithstanding its 

 inconsistency; and let us rest perfectly confident the police are glad, too. 

 Because there is no personal peril in arresting boys, provided they be of the 

 small kind, and the reporters will have to laud their performances just as loyally 

 as ever, or go without items. 



The new form for local items in San Francisco will now be: — "The ever 

 vigilant and eflficient officer So-and-so succeeded, yesterday afternoon, in arrest- 

 ing Master Tommy Jones, after a determined resistance," etc., etc., followed by 

 the customary statistics and final hurrah, with its unconscious sarcasm: "We 

 are happy in being able to state that this is the forty-seventh boy arrested by 

 this gallant officer since the new ordinance went into effect. The most extraor- 

 dinary activity prevails in the police department. Nothing like it has been seen 

 since we can remember." 



