It is with a heart full of patriotic pride and gratitude that Mr.
PUNCHINELLO observes the adoption, in his dear native Italy, of the
manners and customs of the Land of his Adoption. At an election recently
held in Rome, about something or some other thing, one enterprising
Roman has been discovered who voted "yes" twenty-five times in as many
electoral urns--thereby, it is to be presumed, earning a good deal of
money. We have a more lively hope for charming Italy when we find even a
single citizen exhibiting a skill which would do honor to the most
accomplished professional voter in New York. There is something
encouraging in finding the Sons of ST. PETER becoming, every one of
them, Re-Peters.
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To Commentators.
The "Sun of York," mentioned in Richard III., has no reference to the
"Sun of New York" neither was the quotation, "Who is here so base, that
would be a bondman?" especially meant for application to "THE" ALLEN.
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Beatific.
They talk a great deal about the twenty-eight inch beet they have grown
in California, but a policeman of this city has a beat three miles long.
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[Illustration: "SICH A GITTIN' UP STARES."
_1st festive Cuss._ "WHAT MAKES FOLKS STARE AT US SO?"
_2d Festive Cuss._ "ON ACCOUNT OF OUR ELEGANT COSTOOM, I GUESS. THEY
TAKE YOU FOR WALL STREET, AND ME FOR FIFTH AVENUE."]
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