Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 by Various
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can then be set up on each side of the Pokertown and Euchrebend Railway,
and then we shall have the desired state of things--a railway running through the heart of our city. This plan is both novel and easy. At all events it is easy of execution in comparison with the Arcade plan, and it presents no features to which any one can reasonably object. Drawings of the city as it will appear when this plan has been carried out are now in process of publication, and will soon be for sale at this office. (N. B.--Shares in the Pokertown and Euchrebend Railway, and lost along the route of that admirable road, also for sale on application to the gentleman whose able pen presents this scheme to our readers.) * * * * * "Curses Come Home," etc. The gay young men of New-York are said to be terribly addicted to the use of _absinthe_. They pick up the vice in Paris, and hence arises the singular paradox that, even after they return home, they still continue to be Absinthees. * * * * * A Logical Sequence. Paper made from wood cannot be claimed as a modern invention, for Log books, as every body knows, have been used by mariners since ever so long ago. * * * * * |
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