For what's the use of one, without a mate?

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PROPOSED MATCH.

The bull-frog weighing six pounds, recently captured at Bedford, Ind.
has been forwarded to the office of Punchinello, where it may now be
seen without charge. We have made arrangements with Mr. Gilmore, late of
the late Boston Coliseum, to put this fine artist through a regular
musical course, and he will appear in the orchestra at the New-York
Beethoven Festival, in a new overture entitled "The Music of the
Marshes." This piece will contain several obligato passages written
expressly for our Bull-Frog. After this, we shall challenge Mr. GEORGE
FRANCIS TRAIN to compete in public speaking with the Frog of
PUNCHINELLO, for a purse of $20,000--Mr. TRAIN to speak ten minutes
solo; the Frog to croak ten minutes; and then both to speak and croak in
duet also for ten minutes--the most sonorous performer to take the
money.

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[Illustration: Punchinello Correspondence.]

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

_Maud Miller._--Move to Chicago and get a divorce. No doubt the Judge
would take the hint.

_Algernon Sw-nb--ne._--We are obliged to decline your contribution. The