* * * * * A CARD OF THANKS. PUNCHINELLO is extremely indebted to _The Sun_ for the association of the names of several worthy gentlemen with the ownership of the only first-class Illustrated Humorous and Satirical paper published in America: (Subscription price, for one year, $4.00. Single copies 10 cents. Office, 83 Nassau St., New York.) Well, it is something to be credited with having decent men about you; perhaps if _The Sun_ would try the experiment it would be found more purifying than even the sermons of O. DYER. * * * * * WHY IT IS SO DRY. We _thought_ it had something to do with a lack of moisture in the air; and now, along comes Monsieur PROU, another philosopher, and merely says what we had thought. He declares that there was so much ice last winter (come now, gentlemen of the Ice Companies, what have you to say to that?) it couldn't melt in time to evaporate in time to supply moisture in time for the necessary showers. (Somehow, there's an eternity of "time" in that sentence; but _n'importe: allons!_) We think PROU has proved his case. And, although we can't quite sympathise with his suggestion that detachments of sappers and miners be employed in the spring-time, in Arctic (and doubtless also Antarctic) regions, in blowing up icebergs and otherwise facilitating the operations of old Sol, we give the ingenious Frenchman credit for at least as much philosophic acumen as we ourselves possess: and Heaven only knows how superb a compliment we thus convey! Couldn't our friend Capt. HALL be requested to watch the Pole a little next winter, and look into this idea of ours and PROU'S? * * * * * [Illustration: CIRCUMSTANCES WILL COMPEL THE STATELIEST OF MEN TO STOOP, SOMETIMES. GETTING A LIGHT FROM THE STUMP OF A NEWSBOY'S CIGAR IS ONE OF THEM.] * * * * * [Illustration: A SCENE FROM OLD NICK-OLOS NICK-OLBY. THE EMPEROR DE MANTALINI GOING TO THE "DEMNITION BOW-WOWS."] * * * * * OUR POLICE REPORT. On Tuesday last a suspicious looking man was arrested by the police, and taken to the One Hundred and Fourth Precinct Station House, on several charges of disorderly acts perpetrated by him in various parts of the city. He gave his name as CHARLES A. DANA, and was locked up for the night. Yesterday morning, prisoner was brought before Justice DOWNY, at the Jephson Market Police Court.