Punch / Almanack: Punch / Almanack (1860)

PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOR I860

CLASSICALITY

FOR THE

MONTH.

Julyis socailed
from Julios, who
was also named
Caesar, which in
Punic means ele-
phant. Hence in-
tending tourists
do now pack their
trunks. Julius
deserved a month
to his name, for
he reformed the
calendar, and set
the almanack by
the sun so cle-
verly, that tilings
have gone on ever
since much as he
left them. But
the Astronomer
Royal who put
J. C.up to all this
was one Profes-
sor Sosigenes,
of Alexandria, of
whom scholars
only hear, while
his master gets
all the credit of
the scientific ope-
ration. Mr. Punch
now sets that mat-
ter straight, and
ordains, that in-
stead of the year
being called the
Julian year, Ce-
sar shall be con-
tent with his
July, and the an-
nual period shall
be called the
Sosigenean year.
Remember the
name by sausages.

The Flight op
Genius. —Too fre-
quently,this flight
is the Attic.

MRS. J. HAS THE BEST OE IT!

Paterfamilias. “ Mrs. Jones ! M-Matii.da ! Why 1—Eh !—What the deuce—”

Mrs. J. “ Yes, Mr. J. You have been going on so about the Crinoline, that I thought I would try how yoo liked this
Style of Thing. So, come, Jones, come out for a Walk ! ”

LOST MEN,

When bache-
lors get married
their bachelor ac-
quaintances see
them no more.
So far as concerns
their chums who
live in chambers,
they might in-
deed almost as
well be dead as
wedded. Some-
times one of them
appears in the
haunts he once
frequented, buthe
comes there like a
ghost, and seems
the merest sha-
dow of the jolly
chapheusedtobe.
His old friends re-
gard him more
with sorrow than
with anger, but
neither he nor
they derive much
comfort from his
visit. In fact, he
drops in like a
tax-gatherer, and
makes every one
un com fortable.
He who was once
the life becomes
the death’s head
of their dinner-
table. A Benedick
with bachelors is
a fish out of wa-
ter ; and the best
thing to he done
with him is to
throw a bait out
and try to make
him hook it.

A Government
Office.—A bun-
dle of sticks bound
together by Red
Tape.

NO DOUBT OF IT!

ini/ifiU (in Carriage). “ Now, these Postilions never seem to be Unwell! Upon my word, I verily believe if I were to change rLACF.s with that Little Chap,

I should be ever so much better ! ”