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A Query for Physicians.

Are people’s tastes apt to become Vichy-ated by the excessive use of certain mineral waters?

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“Behold, how Pleasant a Thing ’t is,” etc.

Boston has a couple of clergymen who have fallen out upon matters not precisely theological.  In the summer, the Rev. Mr. MURRAY leaves his sheep, to shoot deer by torchlight in the Adirondacks.  This the Rev. Mr. ALGER, in addressing the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals Society, denounces as extremely wicked.  From all which Mr. PUNCHINELLO, taking up his discourse, infers,

First.  That it is a great deal more wicked to shoot deer by torchlight than by daylight.

Secondly.  That the Rev. MURRAY and the Rev. ALGER are of different religious persuasions.

Thirdly and lastly.  That the Rev. Mr. ALGER doesn’t love venison.

P. S. Persons desiring to present Mr. PUNCHINELLO with a fine haunch, (in the season,) may shoot it by daylight, moonlight, torchlight, or by a Drummond light, as most convenient.

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We are indebted to Mr. SARONY for a number of brilliant photographs of celebrities of the day.  Lovely woman is well represented the batch, with all the characters of which PUNCHINELLO hopes to present his readers, from time to time.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by the PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING COMPANY, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New-York.

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[Illustration:  ALL ABOARD FOR HOLLAND!]

PUNCHINELLO understands that a performance is soon to take place at the Academy of Music, for the benefit of GEORGE HOLLAND, the well-known and ever-green “veteran” of “the stage.”  It pleases PUNCHINELLO to know that a combination of talent and beauty is to be brought together for so worthy a purpose.  Seventy-four years ago, when GEORGE HOLLAND was a small child, PUNCHINELLO used to dandle him upon his knee.  Hardly four years have passed since PUNCHINELLO was convulsed by the Tony Lumpkin of HOLLAND.  He distinctly remembers, too, administering hot whiskey punch to little boy HOLLAND with a tea-spoon, which may in some measure account for the Spirit subsequently infused by the capital comedian into the numerous bits of character presented by him.  Considering these facts, it is manifestly an incumbent duty on the part of PUNCHINELLO to request the earnest attention of his readers to the subject of GEORGE HOLLAND’S benefit, all particulars concerning which will be given due time through the public press.  It used to be said, long ago, that “the Dutch have taken Holland,” Well, let our own modern Knickerbockers improve upon that notion, by taking HOLLAND’S tickets.  Remember how, in the early settlement of the country, it was Holland that made New-York, and see that New-York now returns the compliment, and makes HOLLAND.  Convivial songsters frequently remind us that—­