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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.