DOI issue:
July to December, 1852
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16610#0142
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
RAILWAY LITERATURE.
Book-Si all Keeper. "Book, Ma'am? Yes, Ma'am. Here's a Popular Work by
an eminent Surgeon, just published, ' BROKEN LEGS : AND HOW TO MEND
THEM:' or, would you like the last number of 'THE RAILWAY
OPERATOR V "
IN VINO VERITAS.
We wish our friends the savants would employ them-
selves usefully and successfully, in tracing out the causes
of the disease which afflicts the vegetable world. Like the
cholera, commencing in the dirtiest and lowest places to
ascend to the highest, the vegetable malady began among
the potatoes, which are often crowded together too many
in a bed, aud has now carried its ravages among the upper
circles of the vegetable kingdom—even up as high as the
lofty and elegant, vines. Cold and rain are alleged as the
causes of this affliction ; and the fact of warmth and drainage
being requisite for the health of a plant, will come in aid of
the argument for the necessity of attending to those things
in the case of a human being. Perhaps, those who would
be insensible to these things as far as they might affect the
lower orders of the population, will begin to appreciate
them when they are found to be of vital importance to the
higher class of wines.
An individual who might not miss a few families cut
off by damp and fever in the courts or alleys of the city he
resides in, may possibly miss his usual supply of choice
wines ; and when he finds that the loss is owing to disease,
caused by cold and rain, it may occur to him, that if vegetable
life suffers from such causes, human life may be in want of
protection against similar evils. There are many who would
not be able to understand much inconvenience arising from
the failure of the potato, who will be deeply sensible of the
horrible effects of a deficiency of the vintage. The absence
of a luxury, made by custom a necessary, will perhaps
stimulate in many a dormant sympathy with those among
whom the actual necessaries of life are always difficult to be
obtained.
As good comes out of every evil, we have no doubt that
many will be awakened, as with a voice of thunder, by
this irregular shooting of the vine—this fatal but well-timed
attack of grape.
One of the Results of Ballooning-
To those persons who are doubtful as to the advantages
of ballooning we beg to offer the following extraordinary
fact. The Bull that went up with Madame Poitevin had
not been many minutes in the air before it was found to
be turned into hung beef!
TO LOUIS NAPOLEON ON THE SUPPRESSION OF
"THE CORSAIRE."
Sir,
I am very much afraid that what you have last done will turn
out to be a great imprudence. You have burked the last glitter of
intellect which displayed itself in your unhappy country; trodden
out under your blood-stained hoof the latest sparks of wit which
crackled among the embers of the liberty you have destroyed. What
is there, people will say, you are not afraid of, now? Reasoning, you
knocked on the head—remonstrance, you suppressed. And now there
is to be no laughing, even ! Everything is to be as silent, as it has long
since been as unproductive, as the grave.
My object is to remind you how imprudent this affair is. Of course,
I don't say anything about the injustice of it. That is, we know,
not a matter of a moment's consideration. If one talked of your
honour, people would cry "question." But your cautiousness—your
common calculation, my good fellow! You have a stomach—a stomach
that no blood can turn : remember it, I say, and be somewhat cautious.
For you know that the loss of empire would be to you the loss of your
victuals even. If you were kicked off the President's seat, you would
be put to it for a clean shirt. There's the point which distinguishes you
from the Bourbons. A Bourbon in exile has his ancestors, his manners,
and his quiet gentlemanly enjoyments to console himself with. But
you, my dear Louis, would fall as a poor fellow falls from a brick-
layer's scaffold—and be a subject for a hospital. A couple of days
*ould reduce you to a worse level than you were on before. You
would then be below billiard-markers.
Now, you see, if Paris can't have an occasional laugh, not even that
darling recreation, how will it stand the kind of thing long ? You
might have left it its fun. For, in truth, you had made matters dull
enough. You see, you are not even a despot of esprit; the most you
can hope, is to pass for the Tom Ckibb, or so, of despots. Augustus
had taste and brains, and Nero played the cithara with very consider-
able power. But, my dear fellow, how are you off for the means of
amusing your subj?x:ls, like other fellows ? You can't stand on your
head ; for with your habits it would induce apoplexy—even if your legs
were fit to display ! Then why burke the'' really clever Cor sake, and
drive people to seriousness and plotting. I appeal to your appetite-
put your hand on your stomach—and say out, solemnly: Was it right ?
\swm%>-
Swords into Sickles.
Free Trade and Emigration have compelled the farmer to call in the
soldiers stationed in his neighbourhood to cut his crops. Soldiers in a
time of peace have been likened, by Punch, to poppies among the corn :
such poppies, so used, are very welcome. We have turned swords into
sickles; may Punch ask of the Guards the loan of their helmets, to
convert them into bee-hives ?
the red cap of maintenance.
A subscription at the instance of the chiefs of the popish clergy has
been set on foot to enable Dr. Newman to defray the costs which he
incurred by the Achilli trial. For this purpose, then, it seems the
Cardinal's Hat is going round.
A Word for Excursion Trains.
Great complaints have lately been made of the disappointments
inflicted, and deceptions practised on passengers by Excursion trains.
But the aggrieved parties should recollect, that the object of Railway
Directors in starting those trains, is to take as many people as
possible in. __
the star of the french stage.
The French President enjoys considerable reputation for dramatic
—or melodramatic—cleverness. The Parisian Press, however, is
generally of opinion that his theatrical talent principally consists in
"gag."
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
RAILWAY LITERATURE.
Book-Si all Keeper. "Book, Ma'am? Yes, Ma'am. Here's a Popular Work by
an eminent Surgeon, just published, ' BROKEN LEGS : AND HOW TO MEND
THEM:' or, would you like the last number of 'THE RAILWAY
OPERATOR V "
IN VINO VERITAS.
We wish our friends the savants would employ them-
selves usefully and successfully, in tracing out the causes
of the disease which afflicts the vegetable world. Like the
cholera, commencing in the dirtiest and lowest places to
ascend to the highest, the vegetable malady began among
the potatoes, which are often crowded together too many
in a bed, aud has now carried its ravages among the upper
circles of the vegetable kingdom—even up as high as the
lofty and elegant, vines. Cold and rain are alleged as the
causes of this affliction ; and the fact of warmth and drainage
being requisite for the health of a plant, will come in aid of
the argument for the necessity of attending to those things
in the case of a human being. Perhaps, those who would
be insensible to these things as far as they might affect the
lower orders of the population, will begin to appreciate
them when they are found to be of vital importance to the
higher class of wines.
An individual who might not miss a few families cut
off by damp and fever in the courts or alleys of the city he
resides in, may possibly miss his usual supply of choice
wines ; and when he finds that the loss is owing to disease,
caused by cold and rain, it may occur to him, that if vegetable
life suffers from such causes, human life may be in want of
protection against similar evils. There are many who would
not be able to understand much inconvenience arising from
the failure of the potato, who will be deeply sensible of the
horrible effects of a deficiency of the vintage. The absence
of a luxury, made by custom a necessary, will perhaps
stimulate in many a dormant sympathy with those among
whom the actual necessaries of life are always difficult to be
obtained.
As good comes out of every evil, we have no doubt that
many will be awakened, as with a voice of thunder, by
this irregular shooting of the vine—this fatal but well-timed
attack of grape.
One of the Results of Ballooning-
To those persons who are doubtful as to the advantages
of ballooning we beg to offer the following extraordinary
fact. The Bull that went up with Madame Poitevin had
not been many minutes in the air before it was found to
be turned into hung beef!
TO LOUIS NAPOLEON ON THE SUPPRESSION OF
"THE CORSAIRE."
Sir,
I am very much afraid that what you have last done will turn
out to be a great imprudence. You have burked the last glitter of
intellect which displayed itself in your unhappy country; trodden
out under your blood-stained hoof the latest sparks of wit which
crackled among the embers of the liberty you have destroyed. What
is there, people will say, you are not afraid of, now? Reasoning, you
knocked on the head—remonstrance, you suppressed. And now there
is to be no laughing, even ! Everything is to be as silent, as it has long
since been as unproductive, as the grave.
My object is to remind you how imprudent this affair is. Of course,
I don't say anything about the injustice of it. That is, we know,
not a matter of a moment's consideration. If one talked of your
honour, people would cry "question." But your cautiousness—your
common calculation, my good fellow! You have a stomach—a stomach
that no blood can turn : remember it, I say, and be somewhat cautious.
For you know that the loss of empire would be to you the loss of your
victuals even. If you were kicked off the President's seat, you would
be put to it for a clean shirt. There's the point which distinguishes you
from the Bourbons. A Bourbon in exile has his ancestors, his manners,
and his quiet gentlemanly enjoyments to console himself with. But
you, my dear Louis, would fall as a poor fellow falls from a brick-
layer's scaffold—and be a subject for a hospital. A couple of days
*ould reduce you to a worse level than you were on before. You
would then be below billiard-markers.
Now, you see, if Paris can't have an occasional laugh, not even that
darling recreation, how will it stand the kind of thing long ? You
might have left it its fun. For, in truth, you had made matters dull
enough. You see, you are not even a despot of esprit; the most you
can hope, is to pass for the Tom Ckibb, or so, of despots. Augustus
had taste and brains, and Nero played the cithara with very consider-
able power. But, my dear fellow, how are you off for the means of
amusing your subj?x:ls, like other fellows ? You can't stand on your
head ; for with your habits it would induce apoplexy—even if your legs
were fit to display ! Then why burke the'' really clever Cor sake, and
drive people to seriousness and plotting. I appeal to your appetite-
put your hand on your stomach—and say out, solemnly: Was it right ?
\swm%>-
Swords into Sickles.
Free Trade and Emigration have compelled the farmer to call in the
soldiers stationed in his neighbourhood to cut his crops. Soldiers in a
time of peace have been likened, by Punch, to poppies among the corn :
such poppies, so used, are very welcome. We have turned swords into
sickles; may Punch ask of the Guards the loan of their helmets, to
convert them into bee-hives ?
the red cap of maintenance.
A subscription at the instance of the chiefs of the popish clergy has
been set on foot to enable Dr. Newman to defray the costs which he
incurred by the Achilli trial. For this purpose, then, it seems the
Cardinal's Hat is going round.
A Word for Excursion Trains.
Great complaints have lately been made of the disappointments
inflicted, and deceptions practised on passengers by Excursion trains.
But the aggrieved parties should recollect, that the object of Railway
Directors in starting those trains, is to take as many people as
possible in. __
the star of the french stage.
The French President enjoys considerable reputation for dramatic
—or melodramatic—cleverness. The Parisian Press, however, is
generally of opinion that his theatrical talent principally consists in
"gag."