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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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OUR EYE-WITNESS AT THE ELECTIONS.

We suppose that no individual has rendered more invaluable service as a
historian than the distinguished Eye-witness of the newspapers. The
friends of PUNCHINELLO will therefore be rejoiced to hear that this
accurate reporter was engaged to detail for our readers the progress of
the late elections.

Some time ago, the Eye-witness set about organizing the campaign by the
masterly and novel plan of inducing the leaders of the opposing
political parties to nominate different men for the same office. The