Punch: Punch (91.1886)

December 11, 1886.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 287

THE HOUSE UP AT LAST.

{Present slate of (lie Houses of Parliament, from a Sketch by Our Own
Particular Special Artist, Dr. Percy is percy-nally directing the
improvements.)

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A BOOM IN FOREIGN TONGUES.

"We recently gave to the world the Latin Address despatched to
Harvard by some Cambridge Undergrads. It has been received with
unparalleled enthusiasm in America, and the following strictly
classical reply was agreed to at a recent Bump-Supper," on the
other side of the Atlantic. Its elegant Latmity, like that of its
predecessor, speaks for itself:—

Dttdi Cantabeidgienses, Consangtiinei Chappies !

Hodie recepimns vestram epistolam _ Latmam de nostro
anniversario. Bullyus pro vobis ! Miilti Bullyi! Vestrum Latinum
est serumptiosum. Sed nostrum, si non natteramus nos ipsos, est
plus serumptiosum. ,. .,

Dies anmversarii erat equalis expeetationibus. Habebamus, facto,
altum antiquum tempus. Presidens erat presens, Clbvelandus
appellatus, Democraticus vir ; et innumen reportores et interview-
ores newspaperum. Lowellus—unus, lit tuus immortalis Chuzdewit
dixit, " notissimorum hominum m hacrepublica "—speechiheavit
speechum non malum; et Olivaeius Wendell Holmesius cepit
opportunitatem recitare longum poema, eoncoctum pro occasione;
sed neuter horum erat in Latino, grata ad ccehim! Non sumus
mors super Latino hie. Preferamus lmguam Americanam, vel, ut
vos prave dicitis, Anglicam.

Non substamus totam vestram epistolam. Quid in natione sunt
"Prootores"? Et "Bull-dogs" ? Si ullus Professor hie attemp-
tavit mittere canes post nos, caloulamus ut ille preciose cito esset
pendens de proxima. poste lampadum, condemnatus Judice Lynchio,
—alia splendida institution Americana.

Nostrum flumen, sine dubio, est A unum, et porro melius quam
Camus vel Isis, in antiquo mundo. Caloulamus, facto, Europam est
effetam; ut Beettts Haetius—auctor " Pagani Mongoliensis "—
dicit, " Caucasianus (Europiensis) exluditur." Hasc est maxima et
Uberrima et grandiosissima Respublioa que unquam existavit, et
nostra Universitas potest facile flagellare omnem creationem.
Yoicks! (expressio Anglica.) _

Ubi, pro instantia, sunt Bossi similes nostns in Via Muri ? Ubi
"annuli mercatorii," et "anguli porcini " similes Chicagensibus P
Yos, infortunati juvenes, lugetis sub pondere Systemto Peudalis, et
^Ediflcii Dominorum—quamvis probabiliter non noscitis factum.
Aquila Americana, superba volucris, non potest digestare tales res
ulla via. ,

Sed sumus nunc obligati ludere ludum " vilis globi," et oportet
siccare. Valete ! Quindecm Viai Haevaedienses.

Hubbo Mundi, Cal. Aov. {velpirope).

A Wedding Favoue — Rice-throwing at weddings has caused
recently a number of serious accidents, and yet the ceremony is not
discontinued. No doubt the objection to abolishing the custom would
be that it " goes against the grain" to do so.

A Mouening Pebeoemance,—A Matinee for the production of a
new play by an amateur author at a London theatre.