DOI Heft:
January to June, 1853
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16611#0162
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
HUNTING MEMORANDUM.
iPPEARANCE OF THINGS IN GENERAL TO A GENTLEMAN WHO HAS JUST TURNED A COMPLETE SOMERSAULT!!
* &c, &c, Represent Sparks of Divers Beautiful Colours.
UNREPORTED EARTHQUAKES.
We do not know whether it is out of compliment to the Peace
Society, but the fact seems to be that the earth is becoming a Quaker to
a very considerable extent, for we not only hear of an earthquake about
once a week, but we are favoured also with hints that there are
numerous earthquakes going about which we never hear of at all, in
consequence of the neglect of the penny-a-liners in not reporting them.
If this sort of thing is to continue, the newspapers must really increase
their staff, and must engage in addition to their parliamentary, police,
and other reporters, a corps of earthquake reporters, whose duty it will
be to chronicle the latest terrestrial vibrations, and when there happen
to be no great shakes, to take notes of all the little shakes that may
happen. The last advices from Jersey speak of an earthquake having sug-
gested itself to a gentleman who heard a sound like that of a cart going
over a road recently macadamised. This " phenomenon" lasted nearly
15 seconds, so that the cart or the earthquake—as the case may be—
must have pulled up rather sharp, and Nature, if she went into con-
vulsions, must have got pretty quickly out of them. We should
imagine that Terra must feel greatly amused by the gobemoucherie of
those who are on the look out for her freaks, and we are not surprised
at her occasionally splitting her sides with a deep sense of the
ridiculous.
THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE CREDITOR.
The Chancellor op the Exchequer's intended arrangement with
the public creditor seems likely to be so successful that Mr. Dunup
has determined to ascertain whether that still_ more troublesome
customer, the private creditor, may not be dealt with on a somewhat
similar principle.
The first part of Mr. Duntjp's scheme provides for selling off the old
stock of worn-out wearing apparel, which is so very much reduced as
to have entirely lost all interest. He then proposes to convert his last
baby's interminable long clothes into short reduced, for the former are
no longer required as annuities, in which light he has, hitherto, been
obliged to regard them. The old debt due to the Patent Washing
Company, which he always denounced as a bubble company in con-
sequence of the soap and hot water in which it was mixed up, will be
converted into a permanent loan, and the old original stock of wearing
apparel will be transferred to such capitalists as will bid for it. The
great house of Isaac, of Holywell Street, in conjunction with the
Petticoat Lane branch of the firm, have already expressed a desire to
barter. All the stock now in the hands of the various large pawn-
broking concerns, and bearing an interest of 25 per cent., will be offered
to those who are willing to take the debt and security at a lower rate
of interest. _
Mercantile Humility.
Considerations on a New Currency. „ _ , , „
Gladstone, Masterman, and Powles,
There has been expressed, in some quarters, a desire for a decimal Are three noble British souls;
coinage; but most people are very well satisfied with the present coin And had I Erench speculations in pursuit,
of the realm; or would be if they only had enough of it. Englishmen To Napoleon I, with bliss,
object to change, except the change is such as may be now had for a Would kneel down 'mid England's hiss,
bank-note or a sovereign, and though of all change preferring small And imprint a fervent kiss
change, would not like change so very minute as the mteger which it On his Boot!
is proposed to introduce under the name of Doit. The best use of that -
infinitesimal piece of money—should it ever be issued—would be to
serve .as a fee for homoeopathic physicians. i The Height op Woman's Ambition.—Diamonds.
r
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
HUNTING MEMORANDUM.
iPPEARANCE OF THINGS IN GENERAL TO A GENTLEMAN WHO HAS JUST TURNED A COMPLETE SOMERSAULT!!
* &c, &c, Represent Sparks of Divers Beautiful Colours.
UNREPORTED EARTHQUAKES.
We do not know whether it is out of compliment to the Peace
Society, but the fact seems to be that the earth is becoming a Quaker to
a very considerable extent, for we not only hear of an earthquake about
once a week, but we are favoured also with hints that there are
numerous earthquakes going about which we never hear of at all, in
consequence of the neglect of the penny-a-liners in not reporting them.
If this sort of thing is to continue, the newspapers must really increase
their staff, and must engage in addition to their parliamentary, police,
and other reporters, a corps of earthquake reporters, whose duty it will
be to chronicle the latest terrestrial vibrations, and when there happen
to be no great shakes, to take notes of all the little shakes that may
happen. The last advices from Jersey speak of an earthquake having sug-
gested itself to a gentleman who heard a sound like that of a cart going
over a road recently macadamised. This " phenomenon" lasted nearly
15 seconds, so that the cart or the earthquake—as the case may be—
must have pulled up rather sharp, and Nature, if she went into con-
vulsions, must have got pretty quickly out of them. We should
imagine that Terra must feel greatly amused by the gobemoucherie of
those who are on the look out for her freaks, and we are not surprised
at her occasionally splitting her sides with a deep sense of the
ridiculous.
THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE CREDITOR.
The Chancellor op the Exchequer's intended arrangement with
the public creditor seems likely to be so successful that Mr. Dunup
has determined to ascertain whether that still_ more troublesome
customer, the private creditor, may not be dealt with on a somewhat
similar principle.
The first part of Mr. Duntjp's scheme provides for selling off the old
stock of worn-out wearing apparel, which is so very much reduced as
to have entirely lost all interest. He then proposes to convert his last
baby's interminable long clothes into short reduced, for the former are
no longer required as annuities, in which light he has, hitherto, been
obliged to regard them. The old debt due to the Patent Washing
Company, which he always denounced as a bubble company in con-
sequence of the soap and hot water in which it was mixed up, will be
converted into a permanent loan, and the old original stock of wearing
apparel will be transferred to such capitalists as will bid for it. The
great house of Isaac, of Holywell Street, in conjunction with the
Petticoat Lane branch of the firm, have already expressed a desire to
barter. All the stock now in the hands of the various large pawn-
broking concerns, and bearing an interest of 25 per cent., will be offered
to those who are willing to take the debt and security at a lower rate
of interest. _
Mercantile Humility.
Considerations on a New Currency. „ _ , , „
Gladstone, Masterman, and Powles,
There has been expressed, in some quarters, a desire for a decimal Are three noble British souls;
coinage; but most people are very well satisfied with the present coin And had I Erench speculations in pursuit,
of the realm; or would be if they only had enough of it. Englishmen To Napoleon I, with bliss,
object to change, except the change is such as may be now had for a Would kneel down 'mid England's hiss,
bank-note or a sovereign, and though of all change preferring small And imprint a fervent kiss
change, would not like change so very minute as the mteger which it On his Boot!
is proposed to introduce under the name of Doit. The best use of that -
infinitesimal piece of money—should it ever be issued—would be to
serve .as a fee for homoeopathic physicians. i The Height op Woman's Ambition.—Diamonds.
r