MATADOR.

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WHITE LIES.

Most of the complimentary marble busts of departed heroes.

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[Illustration: A DISTINCTION WITH A DIFFERENCE.

HEROES OF THE WAR

HE ROSE BY THE WAR.]

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OUR PORTFOLIO.

A few days ago PUNCHINELLO had occasion to call upon that most puissant
chief of the tribe Tammany, known in the Indian vernacular as "Big Six."
P. had a disagreeable presentiment that his path to the throne of this
man's greatness would not be strewn with flowers. He had listened to the
melancholy experience of others who went before and came away not only
with blighted hopes, but soiled garments and abraded shins.
Nevertheless, PUNCHINELLO felt that, as it was his duty, he would not be
affrighted by the formidable character of the undertaking, but go and
judge of the difficulties in the way for himself. Accordingly he went.