Punch: Punch (76.1879)

150 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [April 5, 1879.

INFORMAL INTRODUCTIONS.

Apple-Coster. "Here you are, Gents ! All four of 'em Sweet and Fresh as can be!"

SHALL SIR BARTLE HAVE A TESTIMONIAL?

As Mr. Punch can hardly doubt that the return to the bosom of
his country of Her Majesty's enterprising High Commissioner in
South Africa (if it can only be brought about), deserves and will
receive, whether spontaneously, or at the small end of the wedge,
prompt and conspicuous commemoration at the hands of a relieved
World, a comforted Cabinet, and a grateful British Tax-payer, he
would suggest an inscribed monolith on Wormwood Scrubbs, the
Thames Embankment, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall Place, Clerken-
well Green, or some other equally favourite national site.

The following sketch of an inscription has been submitted to
Mr. Punch by his Sixth Form Correspondent. If a little on the
lines of a well-known classic model in the Abbey, it may, he hopes,
be worth the consideration of any Committee who may take the
matter up:—

BARTLEI FRERE,

philosophi, phllanthropi, perculsoris,

austr.-africanorum gentem
qui nullam fere non tetigit,
nullam quam tetigit non turbavit,
site fines essent movendi,
sive leges,
pactorum
callidi atque audacis enucleatoris,
ingenio, impigri, iracundo, inexorabili,
oratione, concitata, torrenti, ornata,
dohum reditum,
europa, asia, africa, requiescentes,
rempublicam gerentes remissi,
vectigales britannici jubilantes,
hoc monumento
concelebraverunt.

A NEW LIGHT GUN.

Gentlemen of the Gun Club, it may perhaps interest you to know
that a French Captain, M. Vassel, has proposed, in La Nature, an
idea, said to have been originally conceived by M. Marey, of a
"photographic gun." As you may suppose, this invention is so
named from being designed "for fixing birds in their flight."

"This gun, which is fitted with Bertsch's automatic camera obscura, is
actuated by means of a trigger, but this trigger, instead of the usual action,
releases a rectangular sliding screen, which has a round aperture in the centre
to let the light pass, whilst it intercepts its two extremities. Should it be
desired to produce at one operation a series of successive attitudes, the con-
struction of a ' photographic revolver' would offer no greater difficulty than
the gun described."

There, Gentlemen and Sportsmen, is a kind of gun by which
you may be enabled to shoot live birds on the wing without
hurting them. You bring down their photographs, and not
themselves, but of course it must require at least as steady and
skilful an aim to photograph them as it does to shoot them, so that
the sport is all the same ; and as for the fair damsels who counte-
nance your exploits by their charming presence, they would surely
derive additional enjoyment from seeing you hit off the pretty
pigeons without killing them.

" What's in a Name ? » indeed !

If a Gentleman is unlucky enough to bear the name of '' Bake-
well," he should really not write letters to the newspapers in
advocacy of Cremation, or see the consequence! Punch's obvious
punsters will be set a-going, and the three extra waste-paper baskets
will have to be put into requisition !

Do, Mr. Bakeavexl, have a little consideration, and recognise the
obligations your name imposes upon you!

Cape W(h ) ine.—Lord Chelmsford's despatch of the 9th of February.

By a Beastly Old Bachelor.—A Married Man's fate (in brief).
—Hooked, Booked, Cooked.