Punch: Punch (87.1884)

November 22. 1*84.1 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 243

QUEEN COAL, THE UNPROTECTED FEMALE.

“BEGONE, DULL CARE!”

The following appears in the Standard .—

A FIVE SHILLING PACKET of beautifully-assorted CHRISTMAS
-LL CARES will be sent, post free, for Is. 2>d. ; two packets for 2s. 2>d.—
Address, &c.

Have we not all enough Cares of our own without wishing to buy
them ? Especially at Christmas-time we have an extra quantity,
which are generally known as Bills. We can clearly understand
this enterprising advertiser wishing to get rid of all his Christmas
Cares at one shilling and three pence the packet, but cannot so easily
comprehend his finding eager purchasers. All we can say is we
would gladly dispose of all our Cares—Christmas and otherwise—at
the same price. _

“ Floating Capital.”—Laying out our money on the Improve-
ment of the Navy.

Misnomer.

The “ Nile Expedition.” Is that a fit name ?

Poor Gordon, expectant so long may well doubt it;
And Britons must own, with a feeling of shame,
There’s not much “ expedition ” about it.

Per Mare et per Terriss.

A Fifth-Form Boy, Master Tommy Merton, writes from Eton
to say that he was present with Mr. Barlow at the first night of
Romeo and Juliet at the Lyceum, and that on hearing how everyone
seemed quite surprised at the excellence of Mr. Terriss as Romeo,
he said at once to his learned companion, “ I think, Sir, that Miss
Anderson has a ‘ Rara Avis in Terriss.’ Mr. Barlow had not
j heard this before. I had.”

Peine Forte et Dure.—Educational Over-pressure,