My sole object, friend PUNCHINELLO, in addressing you on this subject, is to beg and beseech that you will warn the too-credulous and too-generous public against this unmatchably atrocious swindle of Going Under the Falls.  It is too much for proud Humanity, Mr. P.!  It is crushing!  It is withering!  It is annihilating!  What!  “Annex” this fraud?  Never!—­NEVER!

TUPMAN.

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THE POSSIBLE “WHY?” OF IT.

The personal feeling against the French Emperor, so often displayed in the columns of the Tribune, has frequently been a subject of comment.  Nevertheless it is easily accounted for.  As Louis NAPOLEON is said to detest ham, ever since he was incarcerated in the fortress of that name, so does the Hon. HORACE GREELEY detest him, ever since he (H.  G.) was arrested in France for some offence, real or imaginary, which we cannot now recall to mind, and thrown into prison at Clichy.  And to this, also, may be traced the celebrated bon mot of Mr. GREELEY, who once remarked, on a festive occasion, that “Ham was afflicted with trichinosis when it had Louis NAPOLEON in it.”

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A HINT FOR EXCURSIONISTS.

On account of the present nauseating condition of New York Bay, owing to the offal nuisance, no prudent voyager should seek to stem its feculent tide unless provided with “something to take.”  An intelligent correspondent suggests that brandy would be about the thing, but that it should be labelled “Bay Bum.”

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A Military Opinion.

The “Prussian centre,” of which we hear so much just now, ought to be permanently established at Cologne, which place has been, in feet, the Scenter of the world for generations past.

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BOOK NOTICE.

LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS.  By E. SHELTON MACKENZIE, LL.D,, Philadelphia:  T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS.

In this volume of 484 pages, Dr. MACKENZIE brings before his readers a very full and interesting compilation of facts relating to the career of the great novelist.  Besides these, the volume contains a number of characteristic articles from the pen of DICKENS, published, originally, in All the Year Round, some of which are of recent date.  The book is embellished with a portrait and autograph of DICKENS.