_D._ Boo--hoo--hoo--hoo!
_F._ Well, hang the Pleiades! Boo--hoo--hoo--too!
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~Good for Something Better.~
We like enthusiasm. We are ourselves quite given to the admiration of
great people, as they, in their turn, we have reason to believe, are
given to admiration of their dear PUNCHINELLO. But when an English
adorer says that he considers "MR. CHARLES SUMNER fit for a throne," we
are tempted to inquire what throne there is fit for _him_? The fact is,
thrones have come to be rather more disreputable than three-legged
stools. "Every inch a king" may mean six feet of mad-man, or five feet
of mad-woman. We sincerely hope that there is no intention in England of
making MR. SUMNER the King of Spain--we mean of abducting him for the
purpose; for of course, he would never voluntarily assume the purple.
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~The Difference.~
Fenian General O'NEILL bore down upon Canada with a martial charge, but
he was sent back in a Marshal's charge.
[Illustration: AWFUL SCARE OF THE BRITISH LION AT THE ADVANCE OF THE
FENIAN HEAD CENTREPEDE.]
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~Woman's Right to Ballot and Bullet.~
In a speech which sounds like a six-shooter, that deadly woman, Mrs.
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