MR. PUNCHINELLO has prepared forty-nine other papers on different
scientific subjects, including Pugilism, Base Ball, the Velocipede,
Female Suffrage, and Lake Navigation; and he now awaits on invitation
from Chicago to come on with his largest drum and his most melodious
trumpet. He is aware of the general impression among the Children of the
West that they already know every thing. He hastens to assure them that
they labor under the most hideous of delusions.

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A Midsummer Reading of Shakspeare.

It must have been in "fly-time" that Shakspeare wrote--
"When we have Shoo-flied off this mortal coil."

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A Dead Beat to the Windward.

MR. ASHBURY of "Cambria" fame.

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THE FISHERY QUESTION.

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Some trouble with regard to the Gulf fisheries appears to be
anticipated, and loud calls are being made upon Government by the