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+ <h1>PUNCHINELLO</h1>
+ <h2>Vol. 1. No. 26.</h2>
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+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD</b>.</p>
+ <p>AN ADAPTATION.</p>
+ <p>BY ORFHEUS C. KERR</p>
+ <p>CHAPTER XIX.</p>
+ <p>THE H. AND H. OF J. BUMSTEAD.</p>
+ <p>The exquisitely sweet month of the perfectly delicious
+summer-vacation having come, Miss CAROWTHERS' Young Ladies have
+returned again, for a time, to their respective homes, MAGNOLIA
+PENDRAGON has gone to the city and her brother, and FLORA POTTS is
+ridiculously and absurdly alone.</p>
+ <p>Under the ardent sun of August, Bumsteadville slowly bakes,
+like an ogre's family-dish of stuffed cottages and greens, with here
+and there some slowly moving object, like a loose vegetable on a
+sluggish current of tidal gravy, and the spire of the Ritualistic
+church shooting-up at one end like an incorrigibly perpendicular leg of
+magnified mutton.</p>
+ <p>Hotter and hotter comes the breath fiery of nature's cookery,
+until some of the stuffing boils out of one cottage, in the shape of
+the Oldest Inhabitant, who makes his usual annual remark, that this is
+the Warmest Day in ninety-eight years, and then simmers away to some
+cooler nook amongst the greens. More and more intolerably quivers the
+atmosphere of the sylvan oven with stifling fervency, until there oozes
+from beneath the shingled crust of a vegetarian country-boarding-house
+a parboiled guest from the City, who, believing himself almost ready to
+turn, drifts feebly to where the roads fork and there is a shade more
+dun; while, to the speculative mind, each glowing field of corn, or
+buckwheat, is an incipient Meal, and each chimney, or barn, a mere
+temptation to guess how many Swallows there may be in it.</p>
+ <p>Upon the afternoon of such a day as this, Miss POTTS is
+informed, by a servant, that Mr. BUMSTEAD has arrived, and, sending her
+his love, would be pleased to have her come down stairs to him and
+bring him a fan.</p>
+ <p>"Why didn't you tell him I wasn't at home, you absurd thing?"
+cries the young girl, hurriedly practicing a series of agitated looks
+and pensive smiles before her mirror.</p>
+ <p>"So I did, Miss," answers the attached menial, "but he'd seen
+you looking at him with an opera-glass as he came up the path, and said
+that he could hear you taking a clean handkerchief out of tho drawer,
+on purpose to receive him with, before he'd got to the door."</p>
+ <p>"Oh, what shall I do? My hands are so red to-day!" sighs
+FLCKA, holding her arms above her head, that the blood may retire from
+the too pinkish members.</p>
+ <p>After a pause, and an adjustment of a curl over her right eye
+and the scarf at her waist, to make them look innocent, she yields to
+the meteorological mania so strikingly prevalent amongst all the other
+characters of this narrative, and says that she will receive the
+visitor in the yard, near the pump. Then, casting carelessly over her
+shoulder that web-like shawl without which no woman nor spider is
+complete, she arranges her lips in the glass for the last time, and,
+with a garden-hat hanging from the elbow latest singed, goes down,
+humming un-suspiciously, into the open-air, with the guileless bearing
+of one wholly unprepared for company.</p>
+ <p>Resting an elbow upon a low iron patent-pump, near a rustic
+seat, the Ritualistic organist, in his vast linen coat and imposing
+straw hat, looks not unlike an eccentric garden statue, upon which some
+prudish slave of modern conventionalities has placed the summer attire
+of a western editor. The great heat of the sun upon his back makes him
+irritable, and when Miss POTTS sharply smites with her fan the knuckles
+of the hand which he has affably extended to take her by the chin, more
+than the usual symptoms of acute inflammation appear at the end of his
+nose, and he blows hurriedly upon his wounded digits.</p>
+ <p>"That hurt like the mischief!" he remarks, in some anger. "I
+don't know when I've felt anything smart so."</p>
+ <p>"Then don't be so horrid," returns the pensive girl, taking a
+seat before him upon the rustic settee, and abstractedly arranging her
+dress so that only two-thirds of a gaiter-boot can be seen.</p>
+ <p>Munching cloves, the aroma of which ladens the air all around
+him, Mr. BUMSTEAD contemplates her with a calmness which would be
+enthralling, but for the nervous twisting of his features under the
+torments of a singularly adhesive fly.</p>
+ <p>"I have come, dear," he observes, slowly, "to know how soon
+you will be ready for me to give you your next music-lesson?"</p>
+ <p>"I prefer that you would not call me your 'dear,'" was the
+chilling answer.</p>
+ <p>The organist thinks for a moment, and then nods his head
+intelligently. "You are right," he says, gravely, "&#8212;there <i>might</i>
+be somebody listening who could not enter into our real feelings. And
+now, how about those music-lessons?"</p>
+ <p>"I don't want any more, thank you," says FLORA, coldly. "While
+we are all in mourning for our poor, dear absurd EDDY, it seems like a
+perfectly ridiculous mockery to be practicing the scales."</p>
+ <p>Fanning himself with his straw hat, Mr. BUMSTEAD shakes his
+bushy head several times. "You do not discriminate sufficiently," he
+replies. "There are kinds of music which, when performed rapidly upon
+the violin, fife, or kettle-drum, certainly fill the mind with
+sentiments unfavorable to the deeper anguish of human sorrow. Of such,
+however, is not the kind made by young girls, which is at all times a
+help to the intensity of judicious grief. Let me assure you, with the
+candor of an idolized friend, that some of the saddest hours of my life
+have been spent in teaching you to try to sing a humorous aria from
+DONIZETTI; and the moments in which I have most sincerely regretted
+ever having been born were those in which you have played, in my
+hearing, the Drinking-song from <i>La Traviata</i>. Believe me, then,
+my devoted pupil, there can be nothing at all inconsistent with a
+prevalence of profound melancholy in your continued piano-playing;
+whereas, on the contrary, your sudden and permanent cessation might at
+least surprise your friends and the neighborhood into a
+light-heartedness temporarily oblivious of the memory of that dear,
+missing boy, to whom you could not, I hear, give the love already
+bestowed upon me."</p>
+ <p>"I loved him ridiculously, absurdly, with my whole heart,"
+cries FLORA, not altogether liking what she has heard. "I'm real sorry,
+too, that they think somebody has killed him."</p>
+ <p>Mr, BUMSTEAD folds his brown linen arms as he towers before
+her, and the dark circles around his eyes appear to shrink with the
+intensify of his gaze.</p>
+ <p>"There are occasions in life," he remarks, "when to
+acknowledge that our last meeting with a friend, who has since
+mysteriously disappeared, was to reject him and imply a preference for
+his uncle, may be calculated to associate us unpleasantly with that
+disappearance, in the minds of the censorious, and invite suspicions
+tending to our early cross-examination by our Irish local magistrate. I
+do not say, of course, that you actually destroyed my nephew for fear
+he should try to prejudice me against you; but I cannot withhold my
+earnest approval of your judicious pretence of a sentiment palpably
+incompatible with the shedding of the blood of its departed object. If
+you will move your dress a little, so that I can sit beside you and
+allow your head to rest upon my shoulder, that fan will do for both of
+us, and we may converse in whispers."</p>
+ <p>"My head upon <i>your</i> shoulder!" exclaims Miss POTTS,
+staring swiftly about to see if anybody is looking. "I prefer to keep
+my head upon my own shoulders, sir."</p>
+ <p>"Two heads are better than one," the Ritualistic organist
+reminds her. "If a little hair-oil and powder <i>does</i> come off
+upon my coat, the latter will wash, I suppose. Come, dearest, if it is
+our fate to never get through this hot day alive, let us be sunstruck
+together."</p>
+ <p>She shrinks timidly from the brown linen arm which he begins
+insinuating along the back of the rustic settee, and tells him that she
+couldn't have believed that he could be so absurd. He draws back his
+arm, and seems hurt.</p>
+ <p>"FLORA," he says, tenderly, "how beautiful you are, especially
+when fixed up. The more I see of yon, the less sorry I am that I have
+concluded to be yours. All the time that my dear boy was trying to
+induce you to relase him from his engagement, I was thinking how much
+better you might do; yet, beyond an occasional encouraging wink, I
+never gave the least sign of reciprocating your attachment. I did not
+think it would be right"</p>
+ <p>The assertion, though superficially true, is so imperfect in
+its delineation of habitual conduct liable to another construction,
+that the agitated Flowerpot returns, with quick indignation, "your arm
+was always reaching out whenever you sat in a chair anywhere near me,
+and whenever I sang you always kept looking straight into my mouth
+until it tickled me. You know you did, you hateful thing! Besides, it
+wasn't you that I preferred, at all; it was&#8212;oh, it's too ridiculous to
+tell!"</p>
+ <p>In her bashful confusion she is about to arise and trip shyly
+away from him into the house, when he speaks again.</p>
+ <p>"Miss POTTS, is your friendship for Miss PENDRAGON and her
+brother such, that their execution upon some Friday of next month would
+be a spectacle to which you could give no pleased attention?"</p>
+ <p>"What do you mean, you absurd creature?"</p>
+ <p>"I mean," continues Mr. BUMSTEAD, "simply this: you know my
+double loss. You know that, upon the person of the male PENDRAGON was
+found an apple looking and tasting like one which my nephew once had.
+You know, that when Miss PENDRAGON went from here she wore an alpaca
+waist which looked as though it had been exposed more than once to the
+rain.&#8212;See the point?"</p>
+ <p>FLORA gives a startled look, and says: "I don't see it."</p>
+ <p>"Suppose," he goes on&#8212;"suppose that I go to a magistrate, and
+say: 'Judge, I voted for you, and can influence a large foreign vote
+for you again. I have lost a nephew who was very fond of apples, and a
+black alpaca umbrella of great value. A young Southerner, who has not
+lived in this State long enough to vote, has been found in possession
+of an apple singularly like the kind generally eaten by my missing
+relative, and his sister has come out in a waist made of second-hand
+alpaca?'&#8212;See the point now?"</p>
+ <p>"Mr. BUMSTEAD," exclaims FLORA, affrighted by the terrible
+menace of his manner, "I don't any more believe that Mr. PENDRAGON is
+guilty than I, myself, am; and as for your old umbrella&#8212;"</p>
+ <p>"Stop, woman!" interrupted the bereaved organist, imperiously.
+"Not even your lips shall speak disrespectfully of my lost bone-handled
+friend. By a chain of unanswerable argument, I have shown you that I
+hold the fate of your southern acquaintances in my hands, and shall be
+particularly sorry if you force me to hang Mr. PENDRAGON as a rival."</p>
+ <p>FLORA puts her hands to her temples, to soothe her throbbing
+head and display a bracelet.</p>
+ <p>"Oh, what shall I do! I don't want anybody to be hung! It must
+be so perfectly awful!"</p>
+ <p>Her touching display of generous feeling does not soften him.
+On the contrary, he stands more erect, and smiles rather triumphantly
+under his straw hat.</p>
+ <p>"Beloved one," he murmurs, in a rich voice, "I find that I
+cannot induce you to make the first advance toward the mutual avowal we
+are both longing for, and must therefore precipitate our happiness
+myself. My poor boy would not have given you perfect satisfaction, and
+your momentary liking for the male PENDRAGON was but the effect of a
+temporary despair undoubtedly produced by my seeming coldness. That
+coldness had nothing to do with my heart, but resulted partially from
+my habit of wearing a wet towel on my head. I now propose to you&#8212;"</p>
+ <p>"Propose to me?" ejaculates Miss POTTS, with heightened color.</p>
+ <p>"&#8212;That you pick out a worthy man belonging to your own section
+of the Union," he continues hastily. "Here's my Heart," he adds, going
+through the motions of taking something from a pocket and placing it in
+his outstretched palm, "and here's my Hand,"&#8212;placing therein an equally
+imaginary object from another pocket.&#8212;"Try the H. and H. of J.
+BUMSTEAD."</p>
+ <p>His manner is as though he were commending some patent article
+of unquestionable utility.</p>
+ <p>"But I can't bear the sight of you!" she cries, pushing away
+the brown linen arm coming after her again.</p>
+ <p>Taking away her fan, he pats her on the head with it, and
+seems momentarily surprised at the hollow sound.</p>
+ <p>"Future Mrs. BUMSTEAD," he cheerfully replies, at last, "my
+observation and knowledge of the women of America teach me that there
+never was a wife going to Indiana for a divorce, who had not at first
+sworn to love, as well as honor and obey, her husband. Such is woman
+that if she had felt and said at the altar that she couldn't bear the
+sight of him, it wouldn't have been in the power of masculine brutality
+and dissipated habits to drive her from his side through all their
+lives. There can be no better sign of our future happiness, than for
+you to say, beforehand, that you utterly detest the man of your choice."</p>
+ <p>There is something terrible to the young girl in the original
+turn of thought of this fascinating man. Say what she may, he at once
+turns it into virtual devotion to himself. He appears to have a
+perfectly dreadful power to hang everybody; he considers her strongest
+avowal of present personal dislike the most promising indication she
+can give of eternal future infatuation with him, and his powerful mode
+of reasoning is more profound and composing than an article in a New
+York newspaper on a War in Europe. Rendered dizzy by his metaphysical
+conversation, she arises from the rustic seat, and is flying giddily
+into the house, when he leaps athletically after her, and catches her
+in the doorway.</p>
+ <p>"I merely wish to request," he says, quietly, "that you place
+sufficient restraint upon your naturally happy feelings to keep our
+engagement a secret from the public at present, as I can't bear to have
+boys calling out after me, 'There's the feller that's goin' to get
+married! There's the feller that's goin' to get married!' When a man is
+about to make a fool of himself, it is not for children to remind him
+of it."</p>
+ <p>The door being opened before she can answer, FLORA receives a
+parting bow of Grandisonian elegance from Mr. BUMSTEAD, and hastens up
+stairs to her room in a distraction of mind not uncommon to those
+having conversational relations with the Ritualistic organist.</p>
+ <p><i>(To be Continued.)</i></p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>A GOOD FIGHT</b>.</p>
+ <p>We presume that all the Boston people "lecture" at times; at
+any rate they could, if they wanted to. No one doubts their ability.</p>
+ <p>But, let the number of these imparters of information be ever
+so great, we have reason to doubt whether any other of these
+accomplished parties has grappled with so formidable, so tremendous a
+subject, as that which is now exciting the powerful mind of Miss
+LILLIAN EDGARTON.</p>
+ <p>She is going to do it, though! If her life is spared, and her
+constitution remains free from blight, (both of which felicities we
+trust will be hers,) that subject has got to come under.</p>
+ <p>That all may know how great is the task, and the confidence
+required to pitch into it, we announce, with a flourish, that Miss L.
+E. is about to attack that well-known Saurian Monster, termed GOSSIP!
+Considered as a Disease, she proposes to find the Cause and the Cure.
+Considered as a living and gigantic Nuisance (by far surpassing any
+Dragon described by SPENSER,) she designs to hunt him out and slay him
+incontinently.</p>
+ <p>Courage, fair Knight! Our eldest Son is kept in reserve for
+some such Heroine! If you would be famous, if you would make a perfect
+thing of this Crusade, if you would render the lives of your fellow
+mortals longer and happier, if you would win that noble and ingenuous
+youth, our son, go in vehemently!</p>
+ <p>And, while you are about it, LILLIAN, would you object to
+giving your attention to certain relations of the monster which you
+propose to slay? We name them, Detraction and Calumny. They are tough
+old Dragons, now, we tell you; perhaps it were best to fight shy of
+them.</p>
+ <p>We have it, LILLIAN! Leave 'em to us! Us, with a big U! You
+kill little Gossip, and see how quick his brothers and sisters will
+fall, before our mighty battle-axe!</p>
+ <p>(And so they will fall, sure enough, but it will be simply
+because when our dear young knight, L.E., has killed <i>her</i>
+Dragon, she will have wiped out the whole brood! They can't live
+without their sweet and attractive little sister. And so, like many a
+bigger humbug, we shall take great credit, that belongs to somebody
+else, and assume to have done big things, at enormous expense of blood
+and money. Trust us, for that!)</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>NAPOLEON III AT SEDAN</b>.</p>
+ <p>September, 1870.</p>
+ <div style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span
+ style="margin-left: 1.25em;">I <i>was</i> an Emperor. <i>Voil&agrave;
+c'est bon!</i></span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.75em;">BAZAINE, MACMAHON,
+fought&#8212;'twas my affair.</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">Only, to please my doctor,
+NELATON,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.75em;">I left the throne, to take a
+Sedan chair.</span> </div>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>Unlimited Lie-Ability</b>.</p>
+ <p><i>Veritas</i> writes to say that as he was crossing the ferry
+from Wall Street to Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, he counted 117
+persons reading PUNCHINELLO. He did not observe a single copy of the <i>Sun</i>
+on board, until the boat neared Brooklyn, when a man of squalid
+appearance produced from a dirty newspaper some soiled articles, all of
+which seemed to have been steeped in Lye, from contact with the sheet,
+which proved to be the <i>Sun.</i></p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>A Con for the "Ninth."</b></p>
+ <p>What is there in common between Colonel FISK'S war-horse and a
+New York Ice Company?</p>
+ <p>Both are tremendous Chargers.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>THE PLAYS AND SHOWS.</b></p>
+ <p><img alt="H" align="left" src="images/05.jpg">ere I am again,
+back from the seashore, to find the theatres opening, the war closing,
+and GREELEY burning to imitate the late French Emperor, by leading the
+Republican hosts to defeat in the Fall campaign, so as to be in a
+position to write to the Germanically named HOFFMAN&#8212;"As I cannot fall,
+ballot in hand, at the head of my repeaters, I surrender to your
+victorious Excellency."</p>
+ <p>Being back, I went to see <i>Julius C&aelig;sar</i> at
+NIBLO'S Garden. It was the day when the French CAESER fell, and the
+impertinent soothsayer, ROCHEFORT, who had so often advised him to
+beware, not of the Ides of March, but of the <i>Id&eacute;es
+Napol&eacute;oniennes,</i> (there is a feeble attempt at a pun here)
+obtained his liberty, and the right to assail in his newspaper, the
+virtue of every female relative of the Imperial family. Of course I
+know that JULIUS C&AElig;SAR was not a Frenchman&#8212;for the modesty of his
+"Commentaries" is proverbial&#8212;and that SHAKESPEARE never so much as
+heard of the Man of December. Nevertheless the two C&AElig;SARS were
+inextricably mixed up in my mind. I know that two or three editorial
+persons who sat close by me, were continually talking of NAPOLEON, and
+I may possibly have confounded their remarks with those of the actors.
+Still I could not divest myself of the impression that I was sometimes
+in Paris and sometimes in Rome, and that the sepulchral voice of Mr.
+THEODORE HAMILTON, was more often that of NAPOLEON than that of JULIUS.
+The play presents itself to my recollection in the following shape. As
+I said before, it was represented at the very moment that the French
+republicans, being satisfied with the bees in their respective bonnets,
+were obliterating the imperial bees from the doors of the Tuileries,
+and being anxious to take arms against a sea of Prussians, were taking
+down the imperial arms wherever they could find them. Remembering this,
+the reader will be able to account for any slight difference in text
+between my <i>Julius C&aelig;sar,</i> and that of the respectable and
+able Mr. SHAKESPEARE.</p>
+ <center>
+ <p>ACT I.&#8212;<i>Enter various Irish Roman Citizens, flourishing the
+shillelahs of the period.</i></p>
+ </center>
+ <p>1ST. CITIZEN. "Here's a row. Great C&AElig;SAR is going to
+march to Berlin. Hooray for the Hemperor."</p>
+ <p>1ST EDITORIAL PERSON. "I grant you he was popular when the war
+began, but to-day the people despise him."</p>
+ <p>CASSIUS. "I hate this C&AElig;SAR. Once he tried to swim
+across the British Channel with a tame eagle on his shoulder, and
+couldn't do it. When he is sick he takes anti-bilious pills, like any
+other man. Obviously he don't deserve to live."</p>
+ <p>CASCA. (<i>Who is fat enough to know better, and not pretend
+to be discontented</i>.) "Let's kill him and break all the glass in the
+windows of Paris."</p>
+ <p>BRUTUS. "My friend, those who live in stone houses should
+never throw glass about. I don't mean anything by this, but it sounds
+oracular, and will make people think I am a profound philosopher."</p>
+ <p>EDITORIAL PERSON. "What I say is this. He, C&AElig;SAR,
+governed the Roman rabble vastly better than they deserved. His only
+mistakes were, in not sending CASSIUS, who was a sort of ROCHEFORT,
+without ROCHEFORT'S cowardice, to the galleys, and in not sending
+BRUTUS as Minister to some capital so dreary that he would have shot
+himself as soon as he reached his destination."</p>
+ <center>
+ <p>ACT II.&#8212;<i>Enter</i> BRUTUS <i>and fellow radicals.</i></p>
+ </center>
+ <p>BRUTUS. "I have no complaint against C&AElig;SAR, and I
+therefore gladly join your noble band of assassins. We will kill him
+and establish a provisional government with myself at its head.
+C&AElig;SAR is ambitious, and I hate ambition. All I want is to be the
+ruler of Rome."</p>
+ <p>CASSIUS. "Come, my brave fellows. Haste to the stabbing. Away!
+Away!"</p>
+ <p>EDITORIAL PERSON. "What a farce is history. Here are
+PUMBLECHOOK, BRUTUS and JOHN WILKES CASSIUS held up as models of
+excellence and integrity. What did they and their fellow scoundrels do
+after they had killed C&AElig;SAR, but desolate their country with
+civil war?"</p>
+ <center>
+ <p>ACT III.&#8212;<i>Enter</i> ASSASSINS <i>headed by</i> BRUTUS <i>and</i>
+GAMBETTA, CASSIUS <i>and</i> ROCHEFORT.</p>
+ </center>
+ <p>CASSIUS. "Here is C&AElig;SAR with his back toward us,
+fighting the German's hordes. Let us steal up and stab him before he
+can help himself." <i>(They stab him.)</i></p>
+ <p>CASSIUS. "Now we will kick his wife out of Paris and smash his
+furniture. We will all become a Provisional Government, and fix
+everything to suit ourselves. I will revive my newspaper, and hire a
+staff from the New York <i>Sun,</i> who will make it more scurrilous
+than ever."</p>
+ <p><i>Enter the Parisian populace crying, "Hooray for</i>
+C&AElig;SAR."</p>
+ <p>CASSIUS. "Hush. C&AElig;SAR is dead, and we are going to
+proclaim a republic. Begin and abuse him with all your might. We'll let
+you smash some windows presently."</p>
+ <p>POPULACE. "Hooray. The tyrant has fallen. Let's go and insult
+his wife and smash everything generally."</p>
+ <p>1ST EDITORIAL PERSON. "Yesterday these precious rascals voted
+for him. To-day they insult him&#8212;it being safe to do so&#8212;and to-morrow
+they will want him back again."</p>
+ <p>2ND EDITORIAL PERSON, "There lies the ruins of the noblest
+nephew of his uncle that ever lived in France or elsewhere. He was
+unscrupulous, I admit, but he knew how to rule. Shall we stay and hear
+MARK ANTONY praise him, and set the fickle rabble at the throats of
+ROCHEFORT and BRUTUS, and their gang?"</p>
+ <p>1ST EDITORIAL PERSON. "That will take place very shortly, but
+I can't wait for it. I must go home to write an editorial welcoming the
+new republic, and prophesying all manner of success for it. The
+American people like that sort of trash, though they have already twice
+seen the French try republican institutions only to make a muddle of
+them."</p>
+ <p>2ND EDITORIAL PERSON. "What do you think of the actors here at
+NIBLO'S."</p>
+ <p>1ST EDITORIAL PERSON. "DAVENPORT is good but heavy, BARRETT
+rants like a raving French radical. MONTGOMERY is excellent, and the
+rest are so so."</p>
+ <p>And the undersigned having seen the French revolution played
+on the Roman stage at NIBLO'S, also went home without waiting to see
+the prophetic fourth and fifth acts, in which the conspirators come to
+grief, and the empire is re&euml;stablished. We shall read all about it
+in the cable dispatches a few months hence. Good Heavens! who can
+listen calmly to the speeches of the players, while the grandest drama
+of the century is acting across the sea, where a mad populace, freed
+from the firm grasp of its master, breaks windows and howls itself
+hoarse as the best preparations for holding the fairest of cities
+against the resistless veterans of VON MOLTKE.</p>
+ <p>MATADOR.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>Insurrectionary.</b></p>
+ <p>PUNCHINELLO, pondering over the vast sums that have been
+forwarded to Cuba, in aid of the insurrectionary movements there, and
+struck with the disadvantages under which the promoters of liberty
+labor in that sunny isle, blesses his stars that, thanks to the
+enterprise of Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY, he can raise a <b>Revolution</b>
+in New York City, at any time, for ten cents. Let those whom it may
+concern take heed.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>Bluff King Bill.</b></p>
+ <p>L.N. declared his determination to kick old King BILLY, of
+Prussia, off from French territory. Well, it would only have been a new
+illustration of "footing the Bill."</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>Query.</b></p>
+ <p>As soon as the abominable fat-boiling nuisances have been
+abolished, will it be right to say that they have fallen into de-<i>suet</i>-ude?</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>A Seasonable Conundrum.</b></p>
+ <p>Why is New York City like the ex-Emperor of the French?
+Because it has just got rid of its Census.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>A Suggestion.</b></p>
+ <p>In consideration of the splendid jewels worn by him, might not
+Colonel JIM FISK be more appropriately called Colonel GEM FISK.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <center> <img alt="" src="images/06.jpg">
+ <p><b>THE SPIRIT OF THE WAR</b>.</p>
+ <p>A Sketch In the Bowery.</p>
+ <p><i>Small Frenchman.</i> "WHAT FOR YOU HIT ME WITH YOUR DAMBABY
+VEN YOU PASS?"</p>
+ <p><i>Big German.</i> "WANTS TO FIGHT?&#8212;DINKS YOU CAN WHIP ME, EH?"</p>
+ <p><i>Small Frenchman.</i> "NO&#8212;BUT I CAN GIVE YOUR DAMBABY ONE
+BLACK EYE!"</p>
+ </center>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>BY GEORGE!</b></p>
+ <p>LAKE GEORGE, August 30.</p>
+ <p>DEAR PUNCHINELLO:&#8212;I arrived here last Saturday, and as I would
+be the last person to allow a commendable enterprise to languish for
+want of proper encouragement, and in order to put the Hotel proprietors
+out of suspense, I thought I would let you know without further delay
+that I consider Lake George a success.</p>
+ <p>Not being expected, as I supposed, I must admit I was somewhat
+gratified to find a full band playing on the veranda as the coach I was
+in drove up.</p>
+ <p>It was a sort of delicate attention, you know.</p>
+ <p>I notice, however, that they continue playing in the afternoon
+since then, I suppose it struck them as a good idea at the time.</p>
+ <p>The Fort William Henry Hotel is a gorgeous affair in every
+respect. It is situated very near the old original Fort, just where the
+French troops advanced to capture it, and made their celebrated charges.</p>
+ <p>Perhaps the present proprietor can't discount them at that
+sort of thing.</p>
+ <p>Perhaps not!</p>
+ <p>Looking over one's bills reminds you a good deal of the Police
+Courts, five dollars fine, twenty-five dollars costs.</p>
+ <p>The costs they make here are very good, however, altho' they
+do put a little too much mint in them, I must say.</p>
+ <p>L.G. is all right, though. It is supplied with all the modern
+conveniences. It isn't within five minutes walk of the post office, but
+its water conveniences are apparent to all. There is no end to its
+belles, and as for its ranges, it has two of them&#8212;both Adirondacks.</p>
+ <p>Yesterday I took a trip up the Lake and across to its
+neighbor, Champlain.</p>
+ <p>Everybody takes this trip because its "the thing," and it is
+therefore particularly necessary to take it. Ostensibly, you go to view
+the scenery, really, to be inveigled into paying for a low comedy of a
+dinner at the other end.</p>
+ <p>The first place our boat stopped at is called the "Trout
+Pavillion," principally, so far as I can learn, on account of the
+immense number of pickerel caught there, and from the fact that it is
+unquestionably a good site for a Pavillion whenever the esteemed
+Proprietor turns up jacks enough, at his favorite game, to build one.</p>
+ <p>The next place was set down in the Guide Book as the "Three
+Sisters" Islands, an appellation arising from the fact that there are
+precisely <i>four</i> of them.</p>
+ <p>I mentioned this apparent discrepancy to the boat clerk.</p>
+ <p>This young man, who belongs to a Base Ball Club, informs me
+that these islands invariably travelled with a "substitute," as one
+occasionally got "soaked."</p>
+ <p>This certainly seems a little curious, but as the young man
+says he was born here, I suppose he knows.</p>
+ <p>This same young man pointed out a beautiful spot called Green
+Island and asked me if I wouldn't like to live there.</p>
+ <p>He said he thought it would just suit me.</p>
+ <p>The attention of these people is really delightful.</p>
+ <p>Some of these places, however, have very inappropriate names,
+for instance another little gem is called "Hog Island." No one knows
+why it was so called. The clerk of the boat don't either.</p>
+ <p>He wanted to know if I had ever dined there.</p>
+ <p>I always make it a point to get on the right side of these
+Steamboat fellows, always.</p>
+ <p>About half way up the Lake is a place called Tongue Mountain.</p>
+ <p>A long time ago a colony of strong-minded women settled there.</p>
+ <p>That may have had something to do with its name.</p>
+ <p>Nobody ever goes there now.</p>
+ <p>People go very near the mountain in boats, however, as it is
+noted for something very extraordinary in the Echo line.</p>
+ <p>It has what is called a "Double Echo."</p>
+ <p>I fully expected something of this kind.</p>
+ <p>Now if there is anything I am particularly down on, it is
+those unmitigated frauds known as Echoes. And if I ever throw four
+sixes, it is when I am tackling some unsuspecting old ass of a watering
+place echo.</p>
+ <p>I consider them "<i>holler</i> mockeries."</p>
+ <p>Of course we steamed within proper distance, and I seized the
+opportunity to "put a head on" this venerable two-ply nuisance, as
+follows:</p>
+ <p>First, I read a page of a Patent Office Report I go armed with.</p>
+ <p>This the Echo, with very little hesitation, repeated in
+duplicate as usual. From one side of the rock in English, and from the
+other in fair French.</p>
+ <p>I saw at once that old EK was pretty well filled.</p>
+ <p>Next I sang "Listen to the Mocking Bird," which it repeated
+very creditably indeed, dropping but two notes on the third verse. This
+it made up for, I am bound to admit, by throwing in some original
+variations in the chorus.</p>
+ <p>But I hadn't played from my sleeve yet, so I recited HAMLET'S
+Soliloquy.</p>
+ <p>From the wooded slope on our right came the familiar "<i>To be</i>"
+of BOOTH, while from the sloping woods on our left proceeded a finely
+rendered imitation of the Teutonic FECHTER, in the same.</p>
+ <p>This staggered me!</p>
+ <p>I had one more jack in my cuff, however. I pulled out a copy
+of the Tribune and read a few paragraphs of GREELEY'S "What do I know
+about Farming."</p>
+ <p><i>That settled him!</i></p>
+ <p>He never got to the first semi-colon. It knocked the breath
+right out of him!</p>
+ <p>The poor old fossil had to quit. He changed his repeater to a
+leaver. But then you see he had held the office a good while.</p>
+ <p>He hasn't left the business to any one, either.</p>
+ <p>In future no one will go fooling round there except the
+fishermen. The sign is down.</p>
+ <p>In my next I will finish the Lake trip, and give you some
+account of the celebrated "Roger's Slide."</p>
+ <p>SAGINAW DODD.</p>
+ <p>[<i>To be continued.</i>]</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>RAMBLINGS.</b></p>
+ <p>BY MOSE SKINNER.</p>
+ <p>POPULARITY.</p>
+ <p>Next to talk, popularity is the cheapest thing I know of. It
+is achieved by three classes&#8212;those who have brains, those who have
+money, and those who have neither. The first earn it; the second buy
+it; and the third stumble into it, perhaps by waving their hat at an
+engineer just in time to prevent the train from dashing over a
+precipice, or by chopping off somebody's head with a meat axe and
+burning the remains up afterwards, in which case the next day's paper
+gives a faithful account of their pedigree, and their photograph can be
+purchased at any respectable news-dealers, at a price within reach of
+all.</p>
+ <p>The most common-place sayings of popular men are handed down
+to posterity, and a casual remark about the weather is often framed and
+hung up in the spare-bedroom.</p>
+ <p>It behooves every public man to keep a sentence or two on
+hand, with a view to embalming them for future reference. I wish to
+state, in confidence, that if any prominent man who can't think of
+anything that sounds well, will address me, I will furnish him at the
+low price of one dollar a sentence. My stock is entirely fresh and
+original, and embraces such gems as&#8212;"Don't give up the ship," "Such is
+Life," "How's this for high?" "I die happy," "A stitch in time saves
+nine," &amp;c., &amp;c.</p>
+ <p>I am also prepared to furnish "last words of eminent men," at
+a moderate compensation.</p>
+ <p>General GRANT has taken time by the forelock in this matter.
+His "Let us have Peace," was a most brilliant effort, because nobody
+ever thought of it before. "I propose to move on your works
+immediately, if it takes all summer," was also a happy thought.</p>
+ <p>When General GRANT was in Boston he said he liked the way they
+made gravy in Massachusetts. Now this in itself would not, perhaps, be
+called deep, because others have said the same thing before, but,
+coming from a man like GRANT, it set folks to thinking, and it is not
+surprising that something of this sort went the rounds:</p>
+ <p style="margin-left: 40px;">We have the best authority for
+stating that General GRANT, during his recent visit to Boston, remarked
+that he was gratified at the manner in which gravy was produced in
+Massachusetts. Our talented Chief Magistrate is a man of few words, but
+what he does say is spicy, and to the point."</p>
+ <p>At the Peace Jubilee, GRANT said he "liked the cannon best;"
+but the reporters, being confidentially informed that the remark wasn't
+intended for posterity, it didn't get out much. I didn't hear of his
+saying anything else.</p>
+ <p>If a popular man takes cold, the whole public sneeze. His
+opinions must go into the papers any how, though perhaps no better than
+anybody's else. Thus&#8212;from a daily paper:</p>
+ <p style="margin-left: 40px;">"The Hon. MONTGOMERY BLAIR recently
+said in a private conversation, that the present war would probably end
+in victory for the Prussians, and the overthrow of Napoleon."</p>
+ <p>Supposing he did? I heard JOHN SMITH say the same thing in an
+eating saloon over a month ago, and out of twenty gentlemen present,
+four were reporters, but they didn't take out their note books in
+breathless haste and put down the Hon. JOHN SMITH'S opinion, how Mr.
+SMITH looked when he said it, and if he said it as though he really
+meant it, and in a manner that thrilled his listeners.</p>
+ <p>But JOHN hasn't any popularity, you see, and the Hon.
+MONTGOMERY has&#8212;though it may be a little mildewed.</p>
+ <p>Soon after the war, I wrote an article on the Alabama Claims.
+It was a masterly effort, and cost me a month's salary to get it
+inserted in a popular magazine. If that article had proved a success, I
+could easily have gulled the public all my life on the popularity thus
+achieved.</p>
+ <p>But I made a wretched mistake to start with. Instead of
+heading it "The Alabama Claims," "By CHARLES SUMNER," or "HORACE
+GREELEY." I said "By MOSE SKINNER."</p>
+ <p>I will not dwell on the result. Suffice it to say that I soon
+after retired from literature, a changed being, utterly devoid of hope.</p>
+ <p>MORAL SUASION.</p>
+ <p>A friend of mine, an eminent New York philanthropist, relates
+the following interview with a condemned criminal. The crime for which
+this wretched man was hung is still fresh in our memories. One morning
+at breakfast his tripe didn't suit him, and he immediately brained his
+wife and children and set the house on fire, varying the monotony of
+the scene by pitching his mother-in-law down the well, having
+previously, with great consideration, touched her heart with a cheese
+knife.</p>
+ <p>I will now quote my friends' own words:</p>
+ <p>"He was pronounced a hard case, manifesting no sorrow for his
+act, and utterly indifferent to his approaching doom. A score of good
+people had visited him with the kindest intentions, but without making
+the smallest impression upon him.</p>
+ <p>"Without boasting, I wish to say that I knew I could touch
+this man's heart. I saw a play once in which the most blood-thirsty and
+brutal ruffian that ever existed was melted to tears at the mention of
+his mother's name, and childhood's happy hours, and everybody knows
+that what happens on the stage happens just the same in real life.</p>
+ <p>"I naturally congratulated myself on having seen this play,
+for it gave me power to cope with this relentless disposition.</p>
+ <p>"He resisted all attempts at conversation, however, in the
+most dogged manner, barely returning surly monosyllables to my anxious
+wishes for his well being.</p>
+ <p>"At last, laying my hand on his shoulder, and throwing
+considerable pathos into my voice, I said:</p>
+ <p>"My friend, it was not always thus with you. There was a time
+when you sat upon your mother's knee, and gathered buttercups and
+daisies?"</p>
+ <p>"Ah! I had touched the right chord at last. His brow
+contracted and his lips twitched convulsively."</p>
+ <p>"And when that mother put you in your little bed," I
+continued, "she kissed you, and hoped you would grow up a&#8212;"</p>
+ <p>"You lie," said he, "she didn't. The old woman was six foot
+under ground afore I could chaw. Now, look a here, you're the fourth
+chap that's tried the 'mother' dodge on me. Why don't you fellers" he
+added with a malicious grin, "go back on the mother business, and give
+the old man a chance, jest for a change?"</p>
+ <p>"After the above scurvy treatment I was naturally anxious to
+witness the man's funeral, which I understood was to be a gorgeous
+affair, six respectably-attired females having been sworn in to kiss
+the body, amid the hysteric weeps of three more in the background."</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <center> <img alt="" src="images/07.jpg">
+ <p><b>PRACTICAL</b>.</p>
+ <p><i>Housewife.</i> "VAKE YOU UP, HANS&#8212;HERE'S ANODER BRUSSIAN
+VICTORY."</p>
+ <p><i>Hans, (dreamily.)</i> "ANODER BRUSSIAN VICTORY?&#8212;DEN LET US
+HAVE ANODER BRUSSIAN BIER."</p>
+ </center>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>Hot and Cold.</b></p>
+ <p>The sensational paragraph writers had better "let up" on the
+question of an imminent dearth of ice. There is no real probability
+that we shall be without ice before winter sets in. It is only for the
+purpose of keeping us in hot water that the newspaper men say we shan't
+have cold water.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <center> <img alt="" src="images/08.jpg">
+ <p><b>NOT JUST YET!</b></p>
+ <p><i>Mr. Greeley.</i> "PRAY, TAKE A SEAT, MR. WOODFORD; I
+WOULDN'T ON ANY ACCOUNT DEPRIVE YOU," etc., etc.</p>
+ <p><i>Mr. Woodford.</i> "No! NO!&#8212;TAKE IT YOURSELF, MR. GREELEY;
+THE LAST THING I SHOULD THINK OF WOULD BE," etc., etc.</p>
+ <p><i>Governor Hoffman.</i> "DON'T TROUBLE YOURSELVES, GENTLEMEN:
+I SHALL PROBABLY CONTINUE TO OCCUPY THE CHAIR FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS,
+YET."</p>
+ </center>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>COMIC ZOOLOGY.</b></p>
+ <p>Genus, Phoca.&#8212;The Seal.</p>
+ <p>This is the common name of the inoffensive and fur-bearing
+members of the Phocid&aelig; family. The word seal is derived,
+radically, from the German <i>Siegel,</i> so that to say a man has
+"fought mit SIEGEL," is equivalent to remarking that he has assailed a
+harmless and timid seal.</p>
+ <p>The Phocid&aelig;, without distinction of sex, are known as
+Mammafers, although it would manifestly be more correct to call the
+males Papafers. Under the present classification, the confusion of
+genders necessarily engenders confusion.</p>
+ <p>Unless AGASSIZ is gassing us, the true seal has no sign of an
+ear, wherefore the deafening roar of the surf in which it delights to
+sport is probably no inconvenience to it. As distinguished from dumb
+beasts in general, it may properly be called a deaf and dumb animal.
+The false seal, on the contrary, has as true an ear as e'er was seen.
+To the counterfeits belong the sea lion, the Mane specimen of the tribe
+in the Arctic sea, and the sea leopard, which seems to be phocalized in
+the Antarctic circle. All the varieties of the seal seek concealment in
+caverns, and their Hides are much sought after.</p>
+ <p>Sealing was at one time chiefly monopolized by adventurous New
+Englanders, who combined the pursuit with whaling, but at present the
+sealers of Salt Lake bear off the palm from all competitors, both as
+regards numbers and hardihood. Whether they combine whaling with
+sealing is not positively known, but probably they do. Such is the
+universal passion for sealing among the people of that region, that the
+old men act like Young men when engaged in this exciting occupation.</p>
+ <p>The Phocid&aelig; appear to have attracted the attention of
+Mankind at a very early period&#8212;Seals being frequently spoken of in the
+Scriptures. St. JOHN witnessed the opening of no less than seven
+varieties, and must have been well acquainted with their internal
+structure.</p>
+ <p>The earless, or true species, are often seen in considerable
+numbers on the British coast, and the Great Seal of England&#8212;only to be
+found in the vicinity of the Thames&#8212;is of such remarkable size and
+weight, that it never makes its appearance without producing a strong
+Impression.</p>
+ <p>The Green Seal, a much admired variety, is peculiar to
+Madeira, and seals of various colors are often seen in close proximity
+to the British. Ports; the number taken off Cork being prodigious.</p>
+ <p>None of the animals of the Phoca genus are tenacious of life.
+They may readily be destroyed with sealing whacks. A large stick
+properly applied has been known to seal the fate of a dozen in the
+space of half an hour. KANE knocked them over without difficulty, and
+they never attempt to defend themselves, according to PANEY.</p>
+ <p>In conclusion, it may be remarked that immense herds of seals
+cover the coasts of Alaska. It is nevertheless difficult to catch a
+glimpse of them, on account of the enormous flocks of humming birds,
+which darken the air in that genial clime. Occasionally, however, the
+Arctic zephyrs disperse the feathery cloud, and then vast numbers of
+the timid creatures, with a sprinkling of the Walrus, may be seen by
+looking in a Se(a)ward direction.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>A LITTLE ACKNOWLEDGMENT.</b></p>
+ <p>The <i>Free (and Easy) Press</i> has honored PUNCHINELLO with
+a brief as well as premature obituary paragraph. Flattered as he is by
+being thus noticed in the columns of a journal of the long standing and
+well sustained popularity of the <i>Free (and Easy) Press</i>, it
+pains PUNCHINELLO to be obliged to state that he still lives, and that
+he is not only alive, but kicking. That he has come to an end, is
+true&#8212;but it is to the end of his First Volume, as the <i>F. (and E.)
+Press</i> can see by turning to the admirably written, dashing,
+humorous, and absolutely unsurpassable Index appended to our present
+number, which Index PUNCHINELLO cordially recommends to the perusal of
+the <i>F. (and E.) Press</i>. The Preface to his Second Volume,
+however, which is now in preparation, will, PUNCHINELLO confidently
+assures the <i>F. (and E.) Press</i>, be altogether superior to the
+Index to his First. Let the <i>F. (and E.) Press</i> look out for it.
+But, meanwhile, the <i>F. (and E.) Press</i> can cheer itself by
+frequent contemplation of the entertaining personage who serves as
+tail-piece to the Index, and whose gesture is of that familiar and
+suggestive kind that will doubtless be thoroughly understood by the <i>F.
+(and E.) Press</i>, and, as PUNCHINELLO hopes, fully appreciated.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <center> <img alt="" src="images/09.jpg">
+ <p><b>"HUMPTY DUMPTY SAT ON THE WALL,<br>
+HUMPTY DUMPTY HAD A GREAT FALL."</b></p>
+ <p>AND IT HE HAD FALLEN AMONG THE PRUSSIANS, ONLY, IT MIGHTN'T
+HAVE BEEN SO BAD FOR HIM; BUT, AS HE ALSO FELL UPON FRENCH BAYONETS, IT
+IS QUITE CERTAIN THAT HE CAN NEVER GET UP AGAIN.</p>
+ </center>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>HIRAM GREEN IN WALL STREET.</b></p>
+ <p>His Celebrated Speech before the Board or Brokers.&#8212;A few Words
+of Sound Advice from the Squire.</p>
+ <p>Doorin' a breef sojern in the Emperor City, a deputation of
+Wall Street brokers and smashers called and invited me to make a speech
+afore the members of their church, whose <i>Sin</i>-agog is situated
+in Brod Street.</p>
+ <p>Thinks I, if I can make these infatuated worshippers of the
+Golden Calf, Mammon, see the error of their ways and take a back track,
+me thunk my chances for the White House would be full as flatterin' as
+Sisters WOODHUL, GEORGIANA FRANCIS TRAIN, or any other woman, in '72.</p>
+ <p>Layin' off my duster, and adjustin' my specturcals, at the
+appinted hour, I slung the follerin' extemperaneous remarks at 'em:</p>
+ <p>My infatuated friends and Goverment Bondmen:</p>
+ <p>As an ex-statesman which has served his country for 4 years as
+Gustise of the Peece, raisin' said offis to a hire standard than usual,
+to say nothin' about raisin' an interestin' family of eleven morril an
+hily intellectooal children, I rise and git up, ontramelled by any
+politikle alliances, to say: that when you fellers git on a mussy fit,
+like the old woman who undertook to pick her chickens by runnin' them
+through a patent hash cutter, you make the feathers fly, and leave your
+victims in a hily clawed up stait.</p>
+ <p>Perfesser ARKIMIDEES, of Oxford, (and here allow me to stait,
+so as to avoid newspaper contraryversy, as in the case of DISRALLY'S
+novel Lothere, <i>I have no refference to</i> T. GOLDWIN SMITH <i>whatsomever</i>,
+as I believe ARKIMIDEES is now dead,) said he could raise the hul earth
+with a top section of a rale fence, if he could only find something
+tangible to rest his timber on.</p>
+ <p>My friends, that man had never heerd of Wall Street, and I'de
+bet all the money I can borrer on it.</p>
+ <p>With such a prop as this ere little territory, where games of
+chance are "entered into accordin' to the act of Congress," to cote
+from a familiar passage in every printed copy of PUNCHINELLO, the
+Perfesser could have raised this little hemisfeer quicker than any of
+you chaps can gobble up a greenhorn.</p>
+ <p>And, sirs, I'me sorry to be obliged to speak plain, it would
+be a darned site more to your credit if you'd try and raise the earth,
+instead of daily usin' Wall Street as a base of operations to raise
+H----, well&#8212;excuse me, the futer asilum for retired brokers.</p>
+ <p>How do you manage, when you want to make a steak?</p>
+ <p>You run up stocks and produce a crysis.</p>
+ <p>Outsiders rush in lickety smash, and invest all the money they
+can rake and scrape, in these inflated stocks. Suddenly you prick the
+bubble, when, alas! besides the cry-sis, there's more cry-bubs in and
+about Wall Street than there was in Egipt, when NAPOLEON BONAPART
+chopped off the heads off all the first born. Instances have been
+known, where a good many of you chaps have rammed your head in the
+Tiger's mouth once too often.</p>
+ <p>If my memry serves me correctly, FISKE and GOOLD made you
+perambulate off on your eyebrows, last fall, and while the a-4-said
+Tigers walked off with the seats of your trowserloons in their teeth,
+you all jined in the follerin' him:</p>
+ <div style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span
+ style="margin-left: 1.25em;">Wall Street is all a fleetin' sho',</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">From which lame ducks are
+driven,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">"Up in a balloon they allers
+go,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">To Tophet, not to Heaven."</span>
+ </div>
+ <p>Another little dodge of your'n, my misguided friends, is to
+keel off K. VANDERBILT.</p>
+ <p>What did you do t'other day?</p>
+ <p>Why, when KERNELIUS was engaged in a friendly game of cards
+for <i>keeps</i>, up at Saratogy, some poor deluded <i>money</i>-maniac
+telegrafs that the Commodore had at last found his match, and had been
+gathered to his fathers. While at the bottom of the dispatch was forged
+the name of my friend, KISSLEBURGH, city editor of the <i>Troy Times</i>,
+who, up to the present time, if this coot knows herself, hain't bin
+into the hiway robbin' bizziness, not by a long shot. But, my friends
+and feller citizens, old VAN is sharper that a two-edged gimlet.</p>
+ <p>When he lays down his wallet among a lot of other calf skins,
+like a great sponge in a puddle of water, it sucks every square inch of
+legal tender, which is in suckin' distance.</p>
+ <p>For a regler 40 hoss power suction, K. VANDERBILT is your man.
+I ones thought I could never take a locker to this 'ere honest old
+heart, but as I cast my gaze over this audience, and observe among the
+Bulls and Bears, a cuple of Dears, I will retract that, payin' in the
+follerin' <i>Jew de spree</i>:</p>
+ <div style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span
+ style="margin-left: 1.25em;">Come rest on this buzzum,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">Oh! butiful broker,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">With your arms clinchin' tite,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">This innercent choker.</span><br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">I'le stand it from thee,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">If you'll never go near,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">The Bulls and the Bears,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">When HIRAM is here.</span> </div>
+ <p>(This impromtu poetikism, Mr. PUNCHINELLO, kicked up quite a
+little breeze, in the midst of which the pretty brokers blushed and
+looked so bewitchin' like, that it was enuff to make a feller throw
+stuns at K. VANDERBILT if the pretty Dears only wanted him to.)</p>
+ <p>I agin resoomed:</p>
+ <p>My infatuated friends; afore I wind up, let me give you a few
+partin' words of advice.</p>
+ <p>Give up this 'ere gamblin' bizziness. When you run up gold it
+hits the hul mercantile body of this nation a wipe in the stummuck. A
+good many little cubs, as well as a few ole Bears, have been gobbled up
+by your confounded efforts at runnin' up gold, while you grin and
+chuckle like the laffin' hyena, when ransackin' Navy Yards and whisky
+distilleries. But, if you insist on goin' ahead and earnin' your daily
+peck by smashin' things and layin' out the onsofisticated, all I have
+got to say is, that next time you've got a <i>sure thing</i> to make a
+speck, by telegrafin' me at Skeensboro, I won't mind comin' down and
+takin' a hand in, if my pocketin' a few hundred thousands will be the
+means of betterin' your morrils, by my sharin' your burden. In
+concloosion, feller citizens, feelin' in rather a poetical mood to-day,
+I will close with the follerin' tribute to Wall Street and its
+inhabitants:</p>
+ <div style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Imperious
+SEIZER, dead, and turned to cla,</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Mite stop a hole to keep the wind
+away;"</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Onless from Wall Street, was
+blowin' raw.</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The tempestous breezes, from a
+broker's flaw.</span> </div>
+ <p>Amid tumultous cheers, and a general rushin' to DELMONICO'S,
+where Wall Street waters her stock, (of lickers,) I sot down.</p>
+ <p>Ewers, without a dowt,</p>
+ <p>HIRAM GREEN, Esq.,</p>
+ <p><i>Lait Gustise of the Peece.</i></p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>Stage By-play.</b></p>
+ <p>A sporting paper gives the following item:</p>
+ <p>"Two nines, composed of members of BOOTH'S, WALLACK'S and the
+Olympic theatrical companies, played an interesting game of base-ball
+at the Union base-ball grounds, last week."</p>
+ <p>Imagine Sir HARCOURT COURTLEY batting splendidly to DIEDRICK
+VAN BEEKMAN'S pitching; or picture Major DE BOOTS waiting patiently on
+the short stop for a chance to put Captain ABSOLUTE out on his second
+base. The experience of these gentlemen before the footlights may have
+made them light-footed, but from mere force of habit they are all
+pretty sure to be caught out in the "flies."</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>Professional.</b></p>
+ <p>"They may talk about nines," said the Doctor, when base-ball
+was the subject under discussion. "They may talk about their nines; but
+I know of a nine that would lay them all out in double-quick time, and
+it is called Strychnine."</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>A FECULENT NUISANCE.</b></p>
+ <p>Persons passing along Nassau Street, between Ann and Beekman
+Streets, for some days past, have had their olfactories unpleasantly
+assailed by a vile stench. On investigation by officers of the Board of
+Health, the foul odor was found to exhale from the premises of 113
+Nassau Street. Further examination disclosed the fact that the nuisance
+arose from a quantity of Dead Rabbits deposited on the premises by one
+JAMES O'BRIEN, for purposes best known to himself. It is said that the
+entire concern is to be handed over to the New York Rendering Company,
+for conversion into the kind of tallow used for the manufacture of the
+cheapest kind of rush-lights.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>The Greatest Joke of the Season.</b></p>
+ <p>The idea of nominating JAMES O'BRIEN for the office of Mayor
+of the City of New York. But it cannot be called a practical joke.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <center> <img alt="" src="images/12.jpg">
+ <p>"IT WAS IN THE CHAMPAGNE COUNTRY THAT LOUIS NAPOLEON CAME TO
+GRIEF. THE FIZZ OF THE CHAMPAGNE WAS TOO MUCH FOR HIM, AND HE FIZZLED."&#8212;<i>(Letter
+from a War Correspondent.)</i></p>
+ </center>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>PUNCHINELLO AS A "SAVANT."</b></p>
+ <p>MR. PUNCHINELLO: I have always taken a profound interest in
+Science. When a child my fond parents observed in me a decided taste
+for Entomology, the wings and legs of butterflies and grasshoppers
+being the objects of my special investigation. As a school-boy I
+obtained (despite the frequent closing of my visual organs)
+considerable Insight into Physical Science in the course of numerous
+pugilistic encounters. A close Application to Optics at that time
+enabled me to get some Light on the Subject.</p>
+ <p>I was quite a phenomenon in Astronomy. While yet an unweaned
+infant I made numerous observations on the Milky Way, and when learning
+to walk frequently saw stars undiscernable with the most powerful
+telescope. Since my arrival at man's estate I have frequently
+experimented on the Elasticity of the Precious Metals, but have
+generally found it extremely difficult to make both ends meet.</p>
+ <p>Considering, therefore, that I had as just a claim to be
+called scientific, as many who pretend to be <i>Savants</i>, I
+determined to attend the late Scientific Convention at Troy. My
+reception was most gratifying. On presenting my credentials to the
+Convention, that learned body welcomed me with open arms, and I was
+escorted to a place among the members by its distinguished head.</p>
+ <p>Some of the speculations of these eminent philosophers were
+exceedingly profound, and it is really wonderful, Mr. PUNCHINELLO, to
+what an extent theory may be carried in the advance of science.</p>
+ <p>Mr. GOOSEFELT read a learned and original paper&#8212;carefully
+compiled from various sources&#8212;on the Steam Engine, in the course of
+which he stated that his great aunt, who had been blown up on the first
+steamboat that ever went down in the Mississippi, during the great
+Earthquake of 1811, was still living. Also, that his godfather, the
+celebrated Mr. NICODEMUS, assisted (probably in the interests of
+science) in pulling down the statue of GEORGE III in the Bowling Green.
+The importance of these two facts cannot be over-estimated, as they
+will undoubtedly give a tremendous impulse to the wheels of science.</p>
+ <p>Professor GREYWACKE, the eminent Geologist, delivered an
+address on Natural Petrifactions, indicating the various specimens of
+Ancient Fossils by which he was surrounded, and describing their
+formation. The audience was probably Petrified with astonishment at the
+immense learning and research he displayed, for it observed a Stony
+silence, only interrupted by an occasional snore.</p>
+ <p>A brilliant paper on the Illuminating Power of Gas was read by
+Professor M.T. HEAD. It was a most Luminous production, and proved
+conclusively that an immense expenditure of gas sometimes throws very
+little Light on any Subject. The Professor is thoroughly versed in
+Meters, and is the author of the "Volume of Gas" which has attracted so
+much attention in the scientific world.</p>
+ <p>Professor SUETT addressed the Scientists on the Effect of
+Tallow upon Ox(h)ides. From certain experiments made by him it appears
+that the Oleaginous principle is incompatible with Water, and
+unfavorable to the action of rust.</p>
+ <p>A member was of the opinion that this important discovery
+might be turned to great practical advantage, as the application of
+cart grease to rusty iron axles might possibly facilitate the rotary
+motion of the wheels.</p>
+ <p>This novel and valuable suggestion was hailed with shouts of
+applause, and the thanks of the Convention were immediately voted to
+the distinguished member, whose name I have unfortunately forgotten.</p>
+ <p>Professor HYDRAGE read an Essay on the Transit of Mercury,
+which he said would take place in the form of a Bed Precipitate in
+1878. It may possibly take place before then, however, as the Faculty
+of Medicine are said to be rapidly abandoning the use of calomel.</p>
+ <p>The State Conchologist read an extremely interesting
+disquisition on the Oyster, which was divided into sections and
+literally devoured by the audience. He also exhibited some Specimens of
+Conchs, which were regular Sneezers in point of size.</p>
+ <p>An announcement which was made by the distinguished
+Astronomer, Professor LOONEY, created a most profound sensation.</p>
+ <p>He stated that with the aid of a powerful telescope he had
+discovered an immense Fissure in the Moon. He was quite positive that
+he had also observed a Man in the Gap. Although unable to distinguish
+the features of this individual, he thought it might possibly be JAMES
+STEPHENS, the missing Fenian Head Centre.</p>
+ <p>When the excitement consequent upon this startling
+announcement had subsided, I rose and addressed the Convention as
+follows:</p>
+ <p>"Ladies and Gentlemen: I cannot express, in words, the
+profound gratification with which I have listened to the learned and
+eloquent addresses which have just been delivered. The advancement of
+Science is an object which is worthy the efforts of such distinguished <i>savants</i>
+as I see around me, and to this object they have brought that
+profundity of learning which is only to be gathered from the perusal of
+elementary text books, that almost strabismal acuteness of perception
+which enables them to descry such great scientific truths as can be
+discovered through an orifice in a barn door, and that wonderful power
+of discrimination which enables them to distinguish between the seed of
+the leguminous plant known as the bean, and the other vegetable
+productions of Nature, when the bag is open.</p>
+ <p>As an humble member of the Brotherhood of Science, I desire to
+contribute, in however insignificant a degree, to the Great Cause of
+Learning. I will therefore, with Your Permission, read" (loud cries of
+'No! No!' 'Put him out!' etc., to which of course I paid no attention,)
+"the following papers: 'An Inquiry as to Whether Diptheria has anything
+to do with the Migration of the Swallow,' 'On the possibility of
+straightening the curve of the African Shin Bone.' 'On Marine Plants
+and Deep Sea Currents.' 'On the Laws of Mechanics, with observations on
+the Mechanic's Lien Law and the By-Laws of Trades Unions.' 'Some
+Reflections on Reflection.' 'The Connection between Mathematics and
+Versification, as illustrated by LOGARHYTHMS.' 'Minute Experiments with
+the Hour-Glass,' and 'Important Speculations on the Sea Changes.'"</p>
+ <p>I proceeded to read the first of the above named papers, but
+before I had got very far, Mr. PUNCHINELLO, I was interrupted by a
+peculiar sound, which I at first took for subdued applause, but which,
+on investigation, I found proceeded from the noses of the audience. In
+short, Mr. P., both audience and Convention were in a profound slumber.
+Considerably mortified, I withdrew in silence. I am determined,
+however, that my theses shall not be lost to posterity. I intend to
+have them published, and to send you a copy of each.</p>
+ <p>Profoundly yours,</p>
+ <p>CHINCAPIN.</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <p><b>Pearing Time.</b></p>
+ <p>We learn that "some of the pear trees in Suffolk County are
+now in blossom." Surely such a season as this one for pears has never
+before been seen. Who knows but the fact may induce SUSAN B. ANTHONY to
+go pairing with some Revolutionary bachelor?</p>
+ <br>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ <center> <img alt="INDEX" src="images/13.jpg"> </center>
+ <br>
+ <br>
+ <b>A.</b><br>
+ <br>
+About a Clock<br>
+Advice to Picnic Parties<br>
+Aerated Verbiage<br>
+Agricultural Column, Our<br>
+Albany Cock Robins<br>
+Allurements of the Period<br>
+All Aboard for Holland<br>
+All Hail<br>
+American Cutlery in France<br>
+Answers to Correspondents<br>
+Arrah, What Does He Mane, at All?<br>
+Astronomical Conversations<br>
+Associated Press Telegrams<br>
+Augean Job, An<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>B.</b><br>
+ <br>
+Ballad of Capt. Eyre, The<br>
+Bachelor's Moving Day, The<br>
+Bad "Odor" in the West<br>
+Ballad of the Good Litttle Boy aged ten<br>
+"Behold how Pleasant a Thing," &amp;c.<br>
+Beautiful Snow<br>
+Bit of Natural History, A<br>
+Bird of Wisdom in Iowa, The<br>
+Bingham on Rome<br>
+Blocks and Blockheads<br>
+Book Notices<br>
+Boyhood<br>
+Bow-Wow!<br>
+Broadbrim to Aborigine<br>
+Business<br>
+By George<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>C.</b><br>
+ <br>
+Cause and Effect<br>
+Captain Hall, To<br>
+Cable News<br>
+Caution<br>
+Cats, On<br>
+Card of Thanks, A<br>
+Chat about Railroads, A<br>
+Chance for our Organ Grinders, A<br>
+Charge of the Ninth Brigade<br>
+Chinopathy<br>
+China Pattern, A<br>
+Chincapin at Long Branch<br>
+Chincapin among the Free Lovers<br>
+Church Militant<br>
+Cincinnatus Sweeny<br>
+Condensed Congress<br>
+Colonel Fisk's Soliloquy<br>
+Cons, by a Wrecker<br>
+Comic Zoology<br>
+Congressman to his Critics, A<br>
+Consistent League, A<br>
+Coup d'etat, My<br>
+Correspondence Bureau<br>
+Contemporary Sentiments<br>
+Conversion of the "<i>Sun</i>"<br>
+Cool, if not Comfortable<br>
+Colored Troopa Fought Nobly, The<br>
+Criticism of the Period<br>
+Critical Intelligence<br>
+Crispin <i>vs</i>. Coolie<br>
+Current Tables<br>
+CARTOONS&#8212;March 4, 1869&#8212;March 4, 1870<br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Our Efficient Navy Department</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The Descent of the great
+Massachusetts Frog upon the Newspaper Flies</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The Great National Game</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Financial Belief</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The Sick Eagle</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The Financial Inquisition</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Editorial Washing Day in New
+York</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The New Plea for Murder</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">International Yachting</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The Wedding Ring as Sorosis
+would like to see it</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The Blood Money</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">"What I Know About Farming"</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The Wedding Ring again</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Modern Matrimony</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Yan-ki <i>vs</i>. Yankee</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The New Pandora's Box</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Lncifer's Little Game with his
+Royal Puppets</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Death of the "Entente Cordial"</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Wonderful Tour de Force</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The Ovation of Murder</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Law <i>versus</i> Lawlessness</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">What Will He Do With It?</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">At the Saratoga Convention</span><br>
+ <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Humpty Dumpty</span><br>
+ <br>
+ <b>D.</b><br>
+ <br>
+Depressions for Chicago<br>
+Delights of Dougherty, The<br>
+Desultory Hints and Maxims for Anglers<br>
+Distinguished Visitor, A<br>
+Dorgs, On<br>
+Dogs Tale, A<br>
+Down the Bay<br>
+Drainage under Difficulties<br>
+Dreadful State of Things out West, The<br>
+Dubious English<br>
+Dwarf Dejected, The<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>E.</b><br>
+ <br>
+Earthly Paradise<br>
+Editorial Washing Day<br>
+Elevated Statesmanship<br>
+England's Quandry<br>
+Episode of Jack Horner<br>
+Excellent Old Song Made New, An<br>
+Excelsior<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>F.</b><br>
+ <br>
+Fable<br>
+Ferocity of Failure, The<br>
+Female Gentleman, The<br>
+Fifteenth Amendment<br>
+Finances, On the<br>
+Fish Sauce<br>
+Fine Arts in Philadelphia<br>
+Fiscalities<br>
+Fish Culture<br>
+Fishery Question, The<br>
+Financial<br>
+Financial Article, Our<br>
+Four Seasons, The<br>
+Forty-four to Fourteen<br>
+Foreign Correspondence<br>
+Foam<br>
+Free Baths, The<br>
+From an Anxious Mother to her Daughter<br>
+Fun and Fin<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>G.</b><br>
+ <br>
+Gay Young Joker, A<br>
+George Francis the Ubiquitous<br>
+Glimpses of Fortune<br>
+Gossip in a School-house<br>
+Good for Something Better<br>
+Gravestones For Sale<br>
+Grant's Blackbird pie<br>
+Greeley's Aid to Literary Effort<br>
+Greeley on Bailey<br>
+Great Canal Enterprise, The<br>
+Great African Tea Company, The<br>
+Greek Meeting Greek<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>H.</b><br>
+ <br>
+Habits of Great Men<br>
+Hamlet from a Rural Point<br>
+Hall and Hayes<br>
+H. G. and Terpsichore<br>
+Hints for the Family<br>
+High and Low Church<br>
+Hints upon High Art<br>
+Hints to Car Conductors<br>
+Hints for Those Who Will Take Them<br>
+Hints for the Census<br>
+High Notes by our Musical Critic<br>
+Hiram Green at Saratoga<br>
+Hiram Green at the Tower of Babel<br>
+Hiram Green on the Chinese<br>
+Hiram Green Experience as an Editor<br>
+Hiram Green writes to Napoleon<br>
+Hiram Green on Jersey Musquitoes<br>
+Hiram Green at the Female Convention<br>
+Hiram Green on Base Ball<br>
+Hiram Green among the Fat men<br>
+Hiram Green to Napoleon<br>
+Hiram Green in Wall Street<br>
+How a Disciple of Fox Became a Lover of Bull<br>
+Horticultural Hints<br>
+Holy-Grail, and other Poems, The<br>
+Homodeification<br>
+Hyperborean<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>I.</b><br>
+ <br>
+Idiomatic Items<br>
+Important to Publishers<br>
+Indian, The<br>
+Interesting to Bone Boilers<br>
+Interior Illumination<br>
+Indian Question, The<br>
+Information Wanted<br>
+Inspiration vs. Perspiration<br>
+Items from our Rural Reporters<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>J</b><br>
+ <br>
+Joys of Summer, The<br>
+Jottings from Washington<br>
+Jumbles<br>
+Jupiter Bellicosus<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>K</b><br>
+ <br>
+Kellogg Testimonials, The<br>
+King Oakey, the First<br>
+King Craft Looking Up<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>L</b><br>
+ <br>
+Latest from Washington<br>
+Latest News Items<br>
+Latest about "Lo."<br>
+Letter from a Friend<br>
+Letter of Advice, A<br>
+Letter from a Japanese Student<br>
+Letter from a Croaker, A<br>
+Leaven of Leavenworth<br>
+Literary Vampire<br>
+Lines by a Hapless Swain<br>
+Long Shot, A<br>
+"Lot" on a Lot of Proverbs<br>
+Love in a Boarding-House<br>
+Lucus a non, etc<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>M</b><br>
+ <br>
+Mariner's Wrongs, The<br>
+Marriage Market in Rome, The<br>
+Maine Question in Massachusetts<br>
+Marine Mixture, A<br>
+Managers of Railroads, To<br>
+Medical Miss, A<br>
+Methodist Book Concern, Concerning the<br>
+Mercantile Library Association<br>
+Mind your P's and Q's<br>
+Miseries of a Handsome Man<br>
+Motley Melody, A<br>
+Municipal Competition<br>
+Murphy the Conqueror<br>
+Mythology, Of<br>
+Mystery of Mr. E. Drood.<br>
+Mythology, Further of<br>
+Mythology, More<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>N</b><br>
+ <br>
+National Taxidermy<br>
+Napoleon's Latest Manifesto<br>
+Natural Mistake, A<br>
+New Conglomerate Pavement<br>
+New England to New York<br>
+New Railway Project, A<br>
+New "Process", The<br>
+Ninety-nine in the Shade<br>
+Nothing like Leather<br>
+Notary's Protest, A<br>
+Nought for Nought<br>
+Now We Shall Have It<br>
+Notes from Chicago<br>
+Now's your Chance<br>
+Note from the Orchestra<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>O</b><br>
+ <br>
+Ode to the Missing Collector<br>
+Old Bailey Practitioner, An<br>
+Old Boy to the Young Ones, An<br>
+Old Saws Re-set<br>
+Old Iron<br>
+Olive Logan<br>
+Opinions of the Press<br>
+Orange Peel, Etcetera<br>
+Origin of the Mississippi<br>
+Orpheus C. Kerr, Sketch of<br>
+Organizing an Organ<br>
+Origin of Punchinello<br>
+O, that air!<br>
+Our Future<br>
+Out of the Streets<br>
+Our Literary Legate<br>
+Our Cuban Telegrams<br>
+Our Explosives<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>P</b><br>
+ <br>
+Patriotic Adoration<br>
+Pat to the Question<br>
+Parable About the 12th of July<br>
+Pardonable Solicitude<br>
+Perennius &AElig;re<br>
+Periodical Literature<br>
+Philadelvings<br>
+Plays and Shows<br>
+Please the Pigs<br>
+Plea for Protection<br>
+Pluckily Patriotic, Still<br>
+Poems of the Cradle<br>
+Popularity, Our<br>
+Political Claptrap<br>
+Police Report, Our<br>
+Possible "Why" of it, The<br>
+Portfolio, Our<br>
+Prospectus<br>
+Pump, The<br>
+Punchinello's New Charter<br>
+Punchinello in Wall Street<br>
+Punchinello's Lyrics<br>
+Punchinello and the Aldermen<br>
+Punchinello on the Jury<br>
+Punchinello Is Sorry<br>
+Punchinello's Vacations<br>
+Punchinello as a "Savan"<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>Q</b><br>
+ <br>
+Query<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>R</b><br>
+ <br>
+Raising Cain<br>
+Rather Mixed<br>
+Rather Flashy Idea, A<br>
+Ramblings<br>
+Real Estate of Woman, The<br>
+Religious Amusements<br>
+Remonstrance, A<br>
+Religion of Temperance<br>
+Receipe to be Tested<br>
+Reform in Juvenile Literature<br>
+Rejuvenated France<br>
+Right and Left<br>
+Robins, The<br>
+Romaunt of the Oyster<br>
+Rose by any other Name, A<br>
+Roar from Niagara, A<br>
+Romance of a Rich Young Man<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>S</b><br>
+ <br>
+Sailing Directions, &amp;c<br>
+Science Forever<br>
+Seasonable Parody, A<br>
+Several Unsavory Renderings<br>
+Ship Ahoy!<br>
+Sic Semper Epluribus, &amp;c<br>
+Sorosian Impromptu, A<br>
+Song of the Returned Soldier<br>
+Song of the New Babel<br>
+Song of the Red Cloud<br>
+Song of the Chicago Lawyer<br>
+Song of the Mosquito<br>
+Society, &amp;c<br>
+Spencerian Chaff<br>
+Spiritual Susceptibility of Cats<br>
+Spring Fever<br>
+Spirit of the Navy<br>
+Standard Literature<br>
+Stridor Pentium<br>
+Summer on the Catskills<br>
+Summer at Sandy Point<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>T</b><br>
+ <br>
+Taking a Senator's Measure<br>
+Take Care of the Wounded<br>
+Temperance Song<br>
+That Indian Talk<br>
+Thiers, Idle Thiers<br>
+Thirteenth Man in the Omnibus<br>
+Titans<br>
+"Tobacco Parliament" of Ohio, The<br>
+To Our Readers<br>
+Traveller's Tales<br>
+Treatment for Potato Bugs<br>
+Truly Noble<br>
+Tutti Tremando<br>
+Turkish Bath, My<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>U</b><br>
+ <br>
+Ulyss, To<br>
+Umbrella, The<br>
+Uncle Samuel<br>
+Universockdology<br>
+Urbs in Rure<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>V</b><br>
+ <br>
+V.H. to Punchinello<br>
+Visit to "Sheridan's Ride"<br>
+Voice from the Hub<br>
+Voice of the Turtle, The<br>
+Vultures Call, The<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>W</b><br>
+ <br>
+Wanted, a Sheriff<br>
+War, The<br>
+Wat Cum Snecst<br>
+Way to Become Great, The<br>
+Weather Prophecies for May<br>
+Western Nomenclature<br>
+What the Press is Expected to Say<br>
+What I Know About Free Trade<br>
+What I Know About Protection<br>
+What Is It<br>
+What Sigerson Says<br>
+What Shall We Call It?<br>
+Why is it so Dry?<br>
+Woman, Past and Present<br>
+Women's Rights Again<br>
+Woman in Wall Street<br>
+Woman in the Census<br>
+Woman's Right to Ballot and Bullet<br>
+Words and their Abases<br>
+Wrong Mouth<br>
+Wringer of the Future<br>
+ <br>
+ <b>Y</b><br>
+ <br>
+Y.M.C.A.<br>
+ <br>
+ <center> <img alt="" src="images/14.jpg"> </center>
+ <hr style="width: 45%;"> <br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+</table>
+<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
+ style="width: 800px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center; width: 30%;"> <big><big><span
+ style="font-weight: bold;">A. T. Stewart&amp; Co.</span></big></big><br>
+ <br>
+Have opened<br>
+AN IMMENSE STOCK OF<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">SILKS,</span></big></big><br>
+ <br>
+For<br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">STREET AND EVENING DRESSES,</span><br>
+At $2 per yard,<br>
+Recently sold at $4 and $5.<br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">A LARGE LINE OF</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <br style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">STRIPED SILKS,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <br style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">FRESH GOODS</span><br>
+ <br>
+$1 to $1.50 per yard.<br>
+ <br>
+EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS<br>
+IN<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big style="font-weight: bold;">BLACK SILKS,</big></big><br>
+ <br>
+From $1.25 per yard upward.<br>
+ <br style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">Plain and Plaid Poplins,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">Satins de Chine,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">Empress Cloths,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">Royal Velvets,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">Serges, etc.</span><br>
+ <br>
+ <small>Customers, strangers, and the public are respectfully
+requested to examine.</small><br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">BROADWAY,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <br style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">4th Avenue, 9th and 10th Streets.</span><br>
+ <br>
+ </td>
+ <td rowspan="3" style="text-align: left;">
+ <div style="text-align: center;"> <big><big><big><big>PUNCHINELLO.<br>
+ <br>
+ </big></big></big></big><br>
+The first number of this Illustrated Humorous and Satirical Weekly
+Paper was issued under date of April 2, 1870. The Press and the Public
+in every State and Territory of the Union endorse it as the best paper
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+A copy of paper for one year and<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big><b>Six American Landscapes</b>. (A set.)</big></big><br>
+4-3/8 x 9, price $9.00&#8212;for
+.............................................. $9.00<br>
+ <br>
+ <br>
+A copy of paper for one year and either of the<br>
+following $10 chromos:<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big><b>Sunset in California</b>.</big></big> (Bierstadt)
+18-1/2 x 12<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big><b>Easter Morning</b>.</big></big> 14 x 21.<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big><b>Corregio's Magdalen</b>.</big></big> 12-1/4 x 16-3/8.<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big><b>Summer Fruit, and Autumn Fruit</b>.</big></big>
+(Half chromos,)<br>
+15-1/2 x 10-1/2, (companions, price $10.00 for the two), for $10.00<br>
+ <br>
+Remittances should be made in P.O. Orders, Drafts, or Bank Checks on
+New York, or Registered letters. The paper will be sent from the first
+number, (April 2d, 1870,) when not otherwise ordered.<br>
+ <br>
+Postage of paper is payable at the office where received, twenty cents
+per year, or five cents per quarter, in advance; the CHROMOS will be <i>mailed
+free</i> on receipt of money.<br>
+ <br>
+CANVASSERS WANTED, to whom liberal commissions will be given. For
+special terms address the Company.<br>
+ <br>
+The first ten numbers will be sent to any one desirous of seeing the
+paper before subscribing, for SIXTY CENTS. A specimen copy sent to any
+one desirous of canvassing or getting up a club, on receipt of postage
+stamp.<br>
+ <br>
+Address,<br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING CO.,</span><br>
+ <br>
+P.O. Box 2783. No. 83 Nassau Street, New York.<br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="center"><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">A.T.
+Stewart &amp; Co.</span></big></big><br>
+ <br>
+ <small>Have largely replenished all their<br>
+ <br>
+Popular Stocks of</small><br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big>DRESS GOODS,</big></big><br>
+ <br>
+Etc., Etc.<br>
+ <br>
+WITH GOODS WHICH<br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">For Quality, Style and Prices,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <br style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">CANNOT BE EXCELLED,</span><br>
+ <br>
+ <small>and respectfully request purchasers<br>
+ <br>
+To Examine the Same,</small><br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">BROADWAY,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <br style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">4th Avenue, 9th and 10 Streets</span><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="center"><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">EXTRAORDINARY
+BARGAINS</span></big><br>
+ <br>
+ <small>IN</small><br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big style="font-weight: bold;">CARPETS.</big></big><br>
+ <br>
+100 Pieces Five-Frame<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><span style="font-weight: bold;">ENGLISH BRUSSELS,</span></big><br>
+ <br>
+Reduced to $1.75 per yard.<br>
+ <br>
+ <small>200 Pieces do., Greater part<br>
+Confined Styles, Reduced<br>
+to $2 per yard.</small><br>
+ <br>
+Very Best Quality<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><span style="font-weight: bold;">ENGLISH TAPESTRY BRUSSELS</span></big><br>
+ <br>
+$1.30 per yard.<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRENCH MOQUETTES</span></big><br>
+ <small>AND</small><br>
+ <big><span style="font-weight: bold;">AXMINSTERS</span></big><br>
+ <br>
+$3.50 and $4 per yard.<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><span style="font-weight: bold;">ROYAL WILTONS,</span></big><br>
+ <br>
+Best Quality, $2.50 and $3 per yard.<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><span style="font-weight: bold;">CROSSLEY'S VELVETS,</span></big><br>
+ <br>
+Choice Designs, $2.50 per yard.<br>
+ <br>
+Superfine Ingrains, 3-Plys.<br>
+ <br>
+English and Domestic<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><span style="font-weight: bold;">OILCLOTHS, RUGS,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">MATS, ETC.,</span></big><br>
+ <br>
+At extremely low prices<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">A.T. STEWART &amp; Co.</span></big></big><br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">BROADWAY,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <br style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">4TH AVE., 9TH AND 10TH STREETS</span><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+</table>
+<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1" align="center"
+ width="800">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="66%" rowspan="2">
+ <center> <img alt="THE WIFE'S WINDFALL." src="images/16.jpg">
+ <p><b>THE WIFE'S WINDFALL.</b></p>
+ <p><i>Smith (who had forgetfully left his pocket-book on the
+piano, last night.)</i> "HAVE YOU FOUND ANYTHING THIS MORNING,
+ANGELINA?"</p>
+ <p><i>Angelina.</i> "O! YES, DEAR, THANKS&#8212;AND I'VE ORDERED A NEW
+PIANO STOOL, SOME LACE CURTAINS, AND&#8212;SUCH A LOVE OF A BONNET!"</p>
+ </center>
+ </td>
+ <td align="center">"The Printing-House of the United States."<br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">GEO.F.NESBITT &amp;
+CO.,</span></big></big><br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">General JOB PRINTERS,</span><br>
+ <br>
+BLANK BOOK Manufacturers,<br>
+STATIONERS, Wholesale and Retail,<br>
+LITHOGRAPHIC Engravers and Printers.<br>
+COPPER-PLATE Engravers and Printers,<br>
+CARD Manufacturers,<br>
+ENVELOPE Manufacturers.<br>
+FINE CUT and COLOR Printers.<br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">163, 165, 167, and 169 PEARL ST.,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">73, 75, 77, and 79 PINE ST., New
+York.</span><br>
+ <br>
+ <small>ADVANTAGES. All on the same premises, and under immediate
+supervision of the proprietors.</small><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="center"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tourists
+and leisure Travelers</span><br>
+ <small>will be glad to learn that the Erie Railway Company has
+prepared</small><br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">COMBINATION EXCURSION</span><br>
+ <small><small>OR</small></small><br>
+ <big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round Trip Tickets,</span></big><br>
+ <p><small>Valid during the entire season, and embracing
+Ithaca&#8212;headwaters of Cayuga Lake&#8212;Niagara Falls, Lake Ontario, the River
+St. Lawrence, Montreal, Quebec, Lake Champlain, Lake George, Saratoga,
+the White Mountains and all principal points of interest in Northern
+New York, the Canadas, and New England. Also similar Tickets at reduced
+rates, through Lake Superior, enabling travelers to visit the
+celebrated Iron Mountains and Copper Mines of that region. By applying
+at the Offices of the Erie Railway Co., Nos. 241, 529 and 957 Broadway;
+205 Chambers St.; 38 Greenwich St.; cor. 125th St. and Third Avenue,
+Harlem; 338 Fulton St., Brooklyn; Depots foot of Chambers Street, and
+foot of 23rd St., New York; No. 3 Exchange Place, and Long Dock Depot,
+Jersey City, and the Agents at the principal hotels, travelers can
+obtain just the Ticket they desire, as well as all the necessary
+information.</small></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan="2">
+ <center>
+ <p><small>PRANG'S LATEST PUBLICATIONS: "Wild Flowers,"
+"Water-Lilies," "Chas. Dickens."<br>
+PRANG'S CHROMOS sold in all Art and Bookstores throughout the world.<br>
+PRANG'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE sent free on receipt of stamp.</small></p>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">L. PRANG &amp; CO., Boston.</span>
+ </center>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+</table>
+<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"
+ style="width: 800px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 50%;">
+ <div style="text-align: center;"> <big><big><big><span
+ style="font-weight: bold;">PUNCHINELLO.</span></big></big></big><br>
+ <br>
+ <small>With a large and varied experience in the management and
+publication of a paper of the class herewith submitted, and with the
+still more positive advantage of an Ample Capital to justify the
+undertaking, the</small><br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING CO</span>.<br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,</span><br>
+ <br>
+Presents to the public for approval, the new<br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">ILLUSTRATED HUMOROUS AND
+SATIRICAL</span><br>
+ <br>
+ <small><span style="font-weight: bold;">WEEKLY PAPER,</span></small><br>
+ <br>
+ <big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">PUNCHINELLO,</span></big></big><br>
+ <br>
+The first number of which was issued under<br>
+date of April 2.<br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">ORIGINAL ARTICLES,</span><br>
+ <br>
+ <div style="text-align: center;"> Suitable for the paper, and
+Original Designs,, or suggestive ideas or sketches for illustrations,
+upon the topics of the day, are always acceptable and will be paid for
+liberally.<br>
+ <br>
+Rejected communications cannot be returned, unless postage stamps are
+inclosed. </div>
+ </div>
+ <div style="text-align: center;"> <br>
+TERMS:<br>
+ <br>
+One copy, per year, in advance ....................... $4.00<br>
+ <br>
+Single copies .......................................... .10<br>
+ <br>
+A specimen copy will be mailed free upon the receipt of ten cents.<br>
+ <br>
+One copy, with the Riverside Magazine, or any other<br>
+magazine or paper, price, $2.50, for ................. 5.50<br>
+ <br>
+One copy, with any magazine or paper, price, $4, for.. 7.00 </div>
+ <br>
+ <div style="text-align: center;"> All communications,
+remittances, etc., to be addressed to<br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING CO.,</span><br>
+ <br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">No 83 Nassau Street,</span><br
+ style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <br style="font-weight: bold;">
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">P. O. Box, 2783. NEW YORK.</span>
+ </div>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: center;">
+ <p style="font-weight: bold;"><big><big>THE MYSTERY OF MR. E.
+DROOD.</big></big></p>
+ <p style="font-style: italic;">The New Burlesque Serial,</p>
+ <p><big>Written expressly for PUNCHINELLO,</big></p>
+ <p><small>BY</small></p>
+ <p style="font-weight: bold;"><big>ORPHEUS C. KERR,</big></p>
+ <p><small>Commenced in No. 11. will be continued weekly
+throughout the year.</small></p>
+ <p><small>A sketch of the eminent author, written by his bosom
+friend, with superb illustrations of</small></p>
+ <p>1ST. THE AUTHOR'S PALATIAL RESIDENCE AT BEGAD'S HILL,
+TICKNOR'S FIELDS, NEW JERSEY.</p>
+ <p>2ND. THE AUTHOR AT THE DOOR OF SAID PALATIAL RESIDENCE taken
+as he appears "Every Saturday." will also be found in the same number.</p>
+ <br>
+ <p>Single Copies, for sale by all newsmen,<br>
+(or mailed from this office, free,) Ten Cents.</p>
+ <p>Subscription for One Year, one copy,<br>
+with $2 Chromo Premium. $4.</p>
+ <p><small>Those desirous of receiving the paper containing this
+new serial, which promises to be the best ever written by ORPHEUS C.
+KERR, should subscribe now, to insure its regular receipt weekly.</small></p>
+ <p style="font-weight: bold;"><small>We will send the first Ten
+Numbers of PUNCHINELLO to<br>
+any one who wishes to see them, in view of subscribing, on<br>
+the receipt of SIXTY CENTS.</small></p>
+ <p>Address,</p>
+ <p style="font-weight: bold;">PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING COMPANY,</p>
+ <p style="font-weight: bold;">P. O. Box 2783.</p>
+ <p style="font-weight: bold;">83 Nassau St., New York.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+</table>
+<br>
+<center> GEO. W, WHEAT &amp; Co, PRINTER, NO. 8 SPRUCE STREET. </center>
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10034 ***</div>
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