Punch: Punch (76.1879)

January 11, 1879.]

PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHAKIVARI.

II

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT-PRO AND CON.

Brilliant Improvement, of course ; but, if you turn Night into Day, however will the poor Birds know when to

go to " Bye-bye " ?

Strange Signs of the [Times.

What are we coming to, Mr. Punch f The question which con-
troversialists in the Times are now raising, I understand to be
whether the language to be excluded from University Education at
Oxford or Cambridge shall be Latin or Greek ? Are we all going
mad, Sir ? A Bewildered Country Gentleman.

Medical Equivalents.—Bon vivant—bad Liver.

Worse than Worsted.

As investments, except for the lower extremities, old stockings
have, until lately, been discarded, even by grandmothers, for new
Stocks. But recent calamities may have suggested a partial return
to the anile system of banking. Yet in the case of Stockings as well
as Stocks, it is quite possible to put both your money and your foot
in it at the same time.

Any Cook to any Policeman.—11 Robert, toi que paime"