CHINCAPIN.

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[Illustration:  LACONIC, BUT EXPRESSIVE.

SCENE:  NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE FIVE POINTS

First Ruffian. “WHERE TO NOW, SNOOTY?”

Second Ditto. “PICNIC.”

First Ditto. “WOTTERYER GOT IN YER LUNCH WALLET?”

Second Ditto. “SLUNG SHOT.”]

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REJUVENATED FRANCE.

PUNCHINELLO has perused a draft of the next Constitution of the French people, or of France, if that is better.  Unwilling to give it to his readers in full, at present, he considers himself authorized, however, to cite a few paragraphs of it, which will be found both original and interesting.

FIFTY-SEVENTH CONSTITUTION OF FRANCE. (One a year, more or less.)

Paragraph 1.  The French Nation is sovereign; the French people are sovereign; sovereigns are sovereign; every Frenchman is sovereign.

Paragraph 2.  All men are equal, but Frenchmen are highly superior to all other men.

Paragraph 3.  In order to secure peace, it is decreed and plebiscited that all governments shall have a chance.  For the next ten years, or less, the Orleans Dynasty shall rule; after that a BONAPARTE for a few years; then a Republic, “democratic and social,” as long as it can keep on its legs.  After that a second Republic, for a twelvemonth at least.  Then an old BOURBON, if one can be found.  After this, a military dictatorship; the army to decide its duration.  At each change the people will decide by plebiscit whether they want the respective governments to be:  personal, legal, or neither.

Paragraph 4.—­But here we must stop.

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Titans.

The Liberte says:  “A lot of crazy fellows tried to proclaim the republic at Toulouse.”  Now there are manifestly two errors in this statement.  The fellows alluded to were not Toulouse, but too tight fellows.  Moreover, if they really had been crazies, as the Liberte supposes, they would have been instantly arrested and sent to Paris, under guard, by the way of the Madder line, to await the action of the Prefect of the Sane.

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Astronomical.

A NEW Milky Way has been discovered.  It is the way the milk producers (farmers, not cows,) of Westchester County have of insisting upon raising their charges for milk from four cents to five cents a quart, wholesale.  We fail to discern the milk of human kindness, here; but it is clear that the milk in the cocoa-nuts of these farmers is mighty sour.

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WHAT SIGERSON SAYS.