Punch (90.1886)

10 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAEI. [January 2, 1886.

INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS. No. 27.

THE CARLTON CLUB DURING THE GENERAL ELECTION.

GRANDPAPA'S NEW YEAR.

Many Happy New Years ? Thank you. I've seen many—

Can expect, at the furthest, hut very few more;
Happy Old 1 ears behind me remember not any—■

Don't believe in a happier New Year before.
No Elixir of Life could me rejuvenescence

Procure, e'en if ready the Old One" to pay,
Modern Chemistry's own self supplies no such essence

To reverse Nature's course of decline and decay.

I might have many Happy New Years, as you wish me—

Same to you—if perpetual youth were mv own,
And a. property out of which no one could dish me,

H I did but possess the Philosopher's Stone.
Ihen itself for its own sake would Life be worth living,

JSot alone for the fear that a worse might ensue,
As suggested by many disposed to misgiving :

But for my part I don't take the Pessimist view.

from ot/r OWIf exam.

Q. Illustrate what is meant by "A Tower of Strength."
A. A Dray-horse used as the horse of a canal barge.

echo's answer.

Vox. What would you, in your neo-Jacohin polity,

Now give us for "the quality " ?
Echo. -E-quality!

POLITICAL ARITHMETIC.

(By a Puzzled Non-partisan.)
Their multiplication is mystification.

Their addition is falsehood plus fad';
Their rule of three is pure fiddlededee,

And their practice is Cocker gone mad!

NOTIONS OF "CHURCH REFORM."

It is averred that " high Authorities, including one or both Houses
of Convocation, have more or less definitely sanctioned the appoint-
ment of Parochial Councils." This idea, if carried out, will be a
novelty in ecclesiastical affairs. Fancy a Council of Paddington, or
St. Pancras, a Council of Camberwell, a Council of Clapham, a
Council of Kensington, or Acton, a Council of Upton-cum-Chalvey,
or a Council of Stoke-Pogis ! Or what would you say to a Synod of
Somers Town ? Hardly ecumenical any such council, and certainly
with Vestrymen present as lay assessors, nothing like Nice.

consolation.

Gladstone is not all mutability,

You bet your bottom dollar ;
He changes front with much agility,

But never alters collar !

Harbour Lights not so brilliant as the Lights of London, visible
some time ago. Lights wanted trimming when we sawthem. More anon.