A CABLE despatch from Paris to PUNCHINELLO (cost $8.62) announces that the editor of La Verite has been sent to a cold and gloomy dungeon for publishing false news,—­a warning to the Sunny CHARLES, our well-beloved neighbor!  But the most mysterious part of the matter is, that this editorial Frenchman actually published this false news upon the doubly dubious authority of the Chevalier WICKOFF!  Why, this gallant adventurer is so well known in New York that if he should come into our sanctum and tell us that we had fallen heirs to a neat fortune of $500,000, we shouldn’t believe him for a moment.

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A POSITIVE ANALOGY.

The Positivists of New York, at a recent meeting, passed unanimously a set of resolutions, in one of which they spoke of King WILLIAM of Prussia as the modern ATTILA.  As an admirer of that fine old barbarian, Mr. PUNCHINELLO protests against such a slanderous attack upon his historic reputation.  ATTILA and the hordes he led were honest thieves, who made no hypocritical pretences to virtue in order to hide their real motives.  They were plunderers by profession, and were not ashamed to openly proclaim it.  ATTILA himself, like any high-minded savage of his crew, would have quickly avenged, as an insult, any attempt to ascribe to him another motive for his action than the pure and simple desire for plunder:  nor did he and his men pretend to lead the Europe of their day in any of the branches of thought which go towards making the culture of any country.  The Positivists have great faith in the historic method of analogy, and they are right in so doing.  But in using analogies it is just as well, if not better, to have them analogies.

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The Peace In Preparation.

The new piece which, for the last few weeks, has been announced as in preparation and shortly to appear in the Puppet Show of the European Political Theatre has not yet been produced, and the expecting spectators are asking why!  The reason, however, is plain.  The wire pullers have been hard at work, but have been constantly thwarted by finding that the wires which were effective with the imperial dolls will have no effect upon the republican figures.

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