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Corroborative.

A late item of war news states that "the Prussians have advanced to
Dole," while from several other sources we learn that the Prussians have
come to Grief.

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PUNCHINELLO CORRESPONDENCE

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

_Ambergris_.--Can you give me the motto of the City of Strasbourg?

_Answer_.--We cannot at this moment recall the Flemish version of it,
but it means, in English, "We make our own Pies."

_Katrina Shwachenzittern_. We have had some difficulty in deciphering
your manuscript. Your grievance, however, seems to be that one of your
boarders, an Alsatian, keeps a ten-pound brass cannon in his bedroom,
and fires a grand salvo with it whenever a French victory is announced.
This, of course, is very foolish. The best way of putting a stop to it
would be for your German boarders to keep guns of even larger calibre in
their rooms, and fire the Frenchman down. You will then have a perfect
right to charge all your boarders for extra fires.

_Ney_.--Please explain two things about the war. First: How did the
Mobile Guard come to leave Mobile? Second: Is _Francs-Tireurs_ the