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"Walker."
MCETTRICK, the pedestrian, was arrested at Boston, a few days since, for
giving an exhibition without a license. He gave bail. Probably
_leg_-bail.
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On the Bench
When is a judge like the structures that are to support the Brooklyn
Suspension-Bridge? When he's called a _caisson._
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AN OFFICER WHO MUST ALWAYS BE OUT OF GUN-SHOT RANGE.
General FARRE.
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THE PLAYS AND SHOWS.
By this time everybody has seen _Rip Van Winkle,_ and everybody has
expressed the same unbounded admiration of Mr. JEFFERSON'S matchless
genius. But the world never has been, and doubtless never will be,
without the pestiferous presence of Reformers, Men of Progress, Earnest
Men, who insist upon improving everything after their own fashion, and
who are unhappy because they did not have the opportunity of making the
solar year consist of an even number of days, and because they were not
present at the building of the Ark, in order to urge upon NOAH the
propriety of attaching a screw propeller to that primitive Great
Eastern.
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