[Illustration: THE DOG'S HEAD IS VERY GOOD FOR A POINTER, BUT THE
CONFOUNDED TAIL _will_ CURL.
A PLAN IS DEVISED FOR STRAIGHTENING IT.
RESULT.]
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Philological Query.
Is the following sentence, which Mr. PUNCHINELLO finds in that
respectable paper, the _Boston Advertiser_, to be considered as English
or Latin?
"The constitutio de fide has been adopted by the Ecumenical Council,
nemine contradicente."
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Absurd to Ask It.
The Belgians propose to drop the letter "h" from the French language. In
France itself the proposition is received wrathfully, and it is no
wonder, when we remember that Perfidious Albion has been the great
dropper of "h" from time immemorial.
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A Place Appropriately Named.
SIGH-BERIA
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FISCALITIES.
Let no one read this title--rascalities. Fiscalities are very different
things. (_That is to say, out of Wall street_.) PUNCHINELLO always had a
strong liking for fiscal subjects, and even now he would be glad to
write a fiscal history of the United States, provided he was furnished
with specimens of all the various coins, bank-notes, greenbacks, bonds,
and such mediums of exchange that have been in circulation from colonial
times until now.
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