support; that, until he had reached his fifth birthday, he had absolutely no knowledge of English literature, and was entirely ignorant of even the rudiments of the classics; that he never paid one cent of income tax at that period of his life; and that his belief in the fundamental principles of political economy was, at that time, doubted by all who knew him best!  Are such statements as these to be submitted to by a man of honor?  Never!  PUNCHINELLO dares the recreant editor of the dirty sheet to do his worst!  Of that base man he could tell much which would render him unfit for the association of any person living, but he forbears.  This much, however, he will say.  It is well known that the said calumniator did, at many periods of his life, make use of the services of a calceolarius.  Think of that, freemen of America!  He has often been known to submit to indignities, such as nose-pulling from the hands of a common tonsor, and has been frequently in such a condition that he could not appear in public without the assistance of a sartor!  Is it fitting that a high-toned journalist should engage in petty recriminations with such a one?  “Revenge,” says JAMES MURDOCK, “is the sweetest morsel cooked in its own gravy, with sauce moyennaise.”  “Yes,” said Dean SWIFT, “and let us have some, and a little gin, say five fingers, and a trifle of milk.”  Thus it is that we regard the editor of the Encyclopedia.

CARLYLE remarks, “Many a vessel, (for if not a Vessel, then surely we, or our progenitors, in counting ships, and the assumptive floatative mechanisms of anterior and past ages; or as the Assyrians [under-estimating the force of the correlative elements] declared a bridging, or a going over [not of seas merely, but of those chaotic gaps of the mind] are all wrong enough indeed,) has never got there.”

We also think of that editor in this way, and trust that enough has been said to make it plain that PUNCHINELLO is not to be attacked with impunity by every little journal of the day.

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Encouraging for Travellers.

The managers of a leading railroad announce that they take passengers “to all principal points of the West without change.”  Such unusual liberality, at a time when Change is so scarce with many people, ought to insure for that railroad a great success.

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Alike, but Different.

Poetry sometimes has a Ring in it.  So has a pig’s nose.

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THE PLAYS AND SHOWS.

Military dramas might, as a rule, be called with equal propriety millinery dramas.  In other words, their success is generally due to their costumes.  In this respect they afford a marked contrast to ballet spectacles.  The latter give us inanity without clothes; the former, inanity in particularly gorgeous clothes.  Which, again, leads to the further remark that the difference between the two styles of inanity is, after all, a clothes thing.  This is a joke.