DOI Heft:
July to December, 1853
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16612#0103
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
FUMIGATION OP THE THAMES.
Tobacco fumes are unpleasant to the majority of ladies. Never-
theless, we must protest against the prohibition of smoking abaft the
funnel on board Thames steamers. The other day we were ascending
the river in one of these vessels, seated in that quarter of it, when a
youth, who was indulging in a Pickwick to the windward of us, was
caused to transfer himself and his enjoyment forwards. No sooner had
he gone away with his smoke, than our nostrils were assailed by the
vilest _ of odours; a breath from the open mouth of a sewer on the
opposite bank. This was just as we were passing the Archbishop’s
Palace at Lambeth; and we could almost have imagined that
Dm Sumner had been at work purifying the Church, and had
rendered its abuses palpable to the olfactory sense; in such great
indignation were our nostrils at the perfume emitted in the neigh-
bourhood of his Grace’s premises. We wished our young friend back
again with his “ weed,” the fragrance of which we very much prefer to
; Rat of metropolitan tributaries to the Thames : and until that stream
A somewhat dulcified, we should think that even ladies would approve
of universal fumigation on board its boats.
The Enemy.
The question of Peace has been carried in Europe, nem. con.
Bright, feeling peacefully, inclined, said he should like all war-
questions to be met and decided by a similar enemy; and, being asked
by Cobden “ What enemy ? ”—he eloquently replied, “ K-n-emine
contradicente
WHAT YOU MAY HEAP. IN A BELL.
A curious old philosopher of our acquaintance says:—“I can
always tell what kind of masters and servants there are in an establish-
ment by the way in which the bell is rung and answered. If the bell
is rung sharply, or snappishly, or at all loudly, I say to myself, You are
hard masters, impatient, intolerant, making no allowances, and always
expecting a thing to be done before it is even asked for, and my sus-
picions are generally verified by their ringing the bell a second time
more loudly than the first; and if the servants take a long time in an-
swering the bell, I say to myself, You are bad servants, either lazy
or pampered, or spoilt by too much indulgence, and evidently taking
but little interest m your master’s wishes. It is a sure sign that there
is not much peace or comfort to be met with in the house where the
master rings several times for everything he wants; and where the
servants require the bell to be rung twice before they think of an-
swering it.”
A Naval Blunderbuss.
We are sorry to notice an anachronism in a popular review. We
mean the review at Spithead. A gun was used in the fleet, called—
we cannot say christened—the “ Nelson Avenger.” Now Nelson has
been sufficiently avenged; if insufficiently honoured : whatever account
of vengeance may have been owing to him was settled at the time;
though our debt of gratitude to him may be eternal. Posterity has no
revenge to take on Posterity : and a gun only meant to rake the rigging
of our enemies should not be so named as to rake up animosities with
our friends.
A BATH AT BOULOGNE.
APPALLING POSITION OF MR. AND MRS. TOMPKINS, WHO HAD A JIB HORSE WHEN THE TIDE WAS COMING IN.
FUMIGATION OP THE THAMES.
Tobacco fumes are unpleasant to the majority of ladies. Never-
theless, we must protest against the prohibition of smoking abaft the
funnel on board Thames steamers. The other day we were ascending
the river in one of these vessels, seated in that quarter of it, when a
youth, who was indulging in a Pickwick to the windward of us, was
caused to transfer himself and his enjoyment forwards. No sooner had
he gone away with his smoke, than our nostrils were assailed by the
vilest _ of odours; a breath from the open mouth of a sewer on the
opposite bank. This was just as we were passing the Archbishop’s
Palace at Lambeth; and we could almost have imagined that
Dm Sumner had been at work purifying the Church, and had
rendered its abuses palpable to the olfactory sense; in such great
indignation were our nostrils at the perfume emitted in the neigh-
bourhood of his Grace’s premises. We wished our young friend back
again with his “ weed,” the fragrance of which we very much prefer to
; Rat of metropolitan tributaries to the Thames : and until that stream
A somewhat dulcified, we should think that even ladies would approve
of universal fumigation on board its boats.
The Enemy.
The question of Peace has been carried in Europe, nem. con.
Bright, feeling peacefully, inclined, said he should like all war-
questions to be met and decided by a similar enemy; and, being asked
by Cobden “ What enemy ? ”—he eloquently replied, “ K-n-emine
contradicente
WHAT YOU MAY HEAP. IN A BELL.
A curious old philosopher of our acquaintance says:—“I can
always tell what kind of masters and servants there are in an establish-
ment by the way in which the bell is rung and answered. If the bell
is rung sharply, or snappishly, or at all loudly, I say to myself, You are
hard masters, impatient, intolerant, making no allowances, and always
expecting a thing to be done before it is even asked for, and my sus-
picions are generally verified by their ringing the bell a second time
more loudly than the first; and if the servants take a long time in an-
swering the bell, I say to myself, You are bad servants, either lazy
or pampered, or spoilt by too much indulgence, and evidently taking
but little interest m your master’s wishes. It is a sure sign that there
is not much peace or comfort to be met with in the house where the
master rings several times for everything he wants; and where the
servants require the bell to be rung twice before they think of an-
swering it.”
A Naval Blunderbuss.
We are sorry to notice an anachronism in a popular review. We
mean the review at Spithead. A gun was used in the fleet, called—
we cannot say christened—the “ Nelson Avenger.” Now Nelson has
been sufficiently avenged; if insufficiently honoured : whatever account
of vengeance may have been owing to him was settled at the time;
though our debt of gratitude to him may be eternal. Posterity has no
revenge to take on Posterity : and a gun only meant to rake the rigging
of our enemies should not be so named as to rake up animosities with
our friends.
A BATH AT BOULOGNE.
APPALLING POSITION OF MR. AND MRS. TOMPKINS, WHO HAD A JIB HORSE WHEN THE TIDE WAS COMING IN.