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.PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[December 27, 1856.
a Life Governor of the Asylum for Idiots, with a view to the benefit of
the Baard.
In the meantime be would ask this question—" Whether the Board
is such an Idiot as to suppose that London will permit itself to be
called names by D'Iefanger and his allies ?"
Should the answer be in the affirmative, Mr. Punch, drawing his
bludgeon, has but two words more to say to Loudon :
" Svivez moi /"
A STORY OF COMMON CLAY.
GERMANISM IN JOURNALISM.
We very much wish that our contempo1 aties, in alluding to the
pictures about to be exhibited ar. Manchester, would cease to
denominate them Art-Treasures. Why not ca'l them Treasures of
Art? Suppose we were to talk of Imagination-Works, meaning works
of Imagination, should we not be deemed to talk very affected stuff?
You might aa well say Science-Discovery as Art-Treasure : or describe
a learned or a virtuous person as a learning-character, or a virtue-man.
A joke, on the same principle, might be termed a wit-speech, or a fun-
saying. It is all very well to say mince-pie and plum-pudding : these
are pleasant compounds, and not bashes of abstract and concrete, dis-
agreeable to the sense of fitness. What, however, makes Art-Treasures
a peculiarly disagreeable word is that it is a vile Germanism ; and the
same objection applies to all the various phrases consisting of "Art"
skewered to some other word with a hyphen. Let us hear no more of
art-coffee-pots, art-cream-jugs, art-fenders, art-fit e-irons, art-cups, and
art-saucers, art-sugar-toDgs, and art-spoons: in short, no more art-
bosh, art-humbug, and art-twaddle. Stick to the Queen's English,
and there stop. Corrupt it not by adulteration with German slang;
do not teach the freeborn British Public to adopt the idioms, or rather
idiotisms, of the language of despots and slaves.
THE POOR BLACKS.
Du. Livingstone, the gallant explorer of Africa, returns after sixteen
years of adventure, with a tale worth a Queen's attention—could he
not have been asked to meet the Americans, who came with the rescued
exploration ship from the north? Tir's by the bye. We chiefly desire
to deplore the frightful barbarism into which some of the tribes, of
whom Dr. Livingstone otherwise reports favourably, have fallen, 'the
Doctor says that, "the men are entirely under the control of their
wives;" that when anything is proposed to a man he replies, "I will
ask my wife," and her decision is final; and, worse tban all, " a man"
(more unhappy even than Caliban) <! is obliged to cut and draw logs for
his Mother3-in-Law."
We have sometimes thought that our missionary zeal might perhaps
find work at home, but we shall henceforth have no word to say against
the African Mission—in fact we shall send in our subscription.
here is a tale of thrilling
interest told by a morning
paper of that renowned per-
sonage the great Duke of
Brabant. It commences
with the statement of the
following significant fact,
which lately occurred at
B ussels:—
" On Thursday his Royal High-
ness, accompanied by a single aide-
de-camp, rode on horseback slowly
into town."
What a picture of com-
bined simplicity and grand-
eur ! It will be readily ima-
gined that a narrative thus
commencing would proceed
to relate something extra-
ordinary, if not a circum-
stance, quite so stupendous
as this:—
" On approaching the Porte de
Cologne, he suddenly stopped his
horse, and, accosting a humble
labourer employed on the road aide,
politely asked permission to light
his cigar by the pipe which the poor man was then smoking."
A Royal Duke asking a labourer for a light—only fancy that ! What
is there to pattern it in the history of the world ? The condescension,
perhaps, of a few angels, who, as we read, accepted of mortals' hospi-
rality. Nothing else ; nothing less. It beats the romance of tire
King and the Miller of Mansfield hollow.
The historian proceeds :—
" I need scarcely say that the request was acceded to with, the greatest pleasure and
alacrity."
The pleasure was, doubtless, more exquisite than that experienced
by the gentleman on being spoken to by his sovereign, when the
monarch told him to get out of the way; and the alacrry witb which
the light was supplied to the Duke was perhaps almost as remarkable
as that with which the obstacle took itself away from the face of the king.
Now for the sequel of this exciting story :—
" The Duke having enkindled his cigar in the way designated, familiarly returned
the pipe into the hands of the labourer, and, thanking him for the kindness thus ren-
dered him, raised his hat from his head while graciously bidding him fareweU."
An English nobleman under similar circumstances would probably
have given the man sixpence, and the pleasure of the recipient would
have been precisely limited by his idea of the sum. But tne Dukk oe
Brabant gave the ''humble labourer" a far higher than a sixpenny
recompence. He returned the pipe a very different thing from what
he received it. He received it mere clay, he returned it as good as
aluminium—if not gold. "Pipe"—perhaps exclaimed the peasant,
paraphrasinz unconsciously a line of Shaksbeare, and apostrophising i z=^=i — ----
the "entry" which had been sanctified by the suction of a Duke—\
"Pipe, I will hallow thee for this thy deed! " This, of course was | THE BIRTH OF CRINOLINE,
his thought, if not his speech, as he watched the departing apparition if.™.niI ma, nlnrrmn- bow to sbane
of the Royal Highaess who had honoured the tube. Of course, in so * ! ^ wa* JJ°5KE7 ° P
doing, the Duke put the poor felWa pipe out, never to be lighted Whet she'^KSt hSf'of tte cape
85£*. rmore - *sac,ed -*—ed "m^»hf„' a e-
In mode thereof her dress sue piled
With skirts of huge extent.
Brutal Assault. Then danced around her work, and smiled,
„ In bland eniavishment.
We regret to hear that Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, was
attacked the other evening in so brutal a manner that he is st ill suffer-
ing from the shock his nervous system has sustained. Taking advan-
tage of the Doctor's long disuse of English, a facetious rufikn contrived,
before the worthy Doctor could find words to stop him, to discharge in
his ear this appalling riddle
Deleterious Compound.
Th3 Incorporated Law Society proposes a concentration of the
, Courts of Law and Equity. Dreadful! Law is bad enough by itself,
^ W-hat, African lake derives its name apparently from an elderly and Equity is too bad, but Law and Equity combined and concentrated
a a 9 that baS been hanging up a fortnight in the hottest of the will be as bad as bad can be. If their respective courts are congregated
dogdays? under one roof, as is recommended, their pernicious atmospheres will
A. Ren garnet// (By which it is supposed the Cockney miscreant j mingle. The resulting compound will resemble a mixture of carbonio
meant to say Ngamt.) ! acid gas and sulphuretted hydrogen.
.PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[December 27, 1856.
a Life Governor of the Asylum for Idiots, with a view to the benefit of
the Baard.
In the meantime be would ask this question—" Whether the Board
is such an Idiot as to suppose that London will permit itself to be
called names by D'Iefanger and his allies ?"
Should the answer be in the affirmative, Mr. Punch, drawing his
bludgeon, has but two words more to say to Loudon :
" Svivez moi /"
A STORY OF COMMON CLAY.
GERMANISM IN JOURNALISM.
We very much wish that our contempo1 aties, in alluding to the
pictures about to be exhibited ar. Manchester, would cease to
denominate them Art-Treasures. Why not ca'l them Treasures of
Art? Suppose we were to talk of Imagination-Works, meaning works
of Imagination, should we not be deemed to talk very affected stuff?
You might aa well say Science-Discovery as Art-Treasure : or describe
a learned or a virtuous person as a learning-character, or a virtue-man.
A joke, on the same principle, might be termed a wit-speech, or a fun-
saying. It is all very well to say mince-pie and plum-pudding : these
are pleasant compounds, and not bashes of abstract and concrete, dis-
agreeable to the sense of fitness. What, however, makes Art-Treasures
a peculiarly disagreeable word is that it is a vile Germanism ; and the
same objection applies to all the various phrases consisting of "Art"
skewered to some other word with a hyphen. Let us hear no more of
art-coffee-pots, art-cream-jugs, art-fenders, art-fit e-irons, art-cups, and
art-saucers, art-sugar-toDgs, and art-spoons: in short, no more art-
bosh, art-humbug, and art-twaddle. Stick to the Queen's English,
and there stop. Corrupt it not by adulteration with German slang;
do not teach the freeborn British Public to adopt the idioms, or rather
idiotisms, of the language of despots and slaves.
THE POOR BLACKS.
Du. Livingstone, the gallant explorer of Africa, returns after sixteen
years of adventure, with a tale worth a Queen's attention—could he
not have been asked to meet the Americans, who came with the rescued
exploration ship from the north? Tir's by the bye. We chiefly desire
to deplore the frightful barbarism into which some of the tribes, of
whom Dr. Livingstone otherwise reports favourably, have fallen, 'the
Doctor says that, "the men are entirely under the control of their
wives;" that when anything is proposed to a man he replies, "I will
ask my wife," and her decision is final; and, worse tban all, " a man"
(more unhappy even than Caliban) <! is obliged to cut and draw logs for
his Mother3-in-Law."
We have sometimes thought that our missionary zeal might perhaps
find work at home, but we shall henceforth have no word to say against
the African Mission—in fact we shall send in our subscription.
here is a tale of thrilling
interest told by a morning
paper of that renowned per-
sonage the great Duke of
Brabant. It commences
with the statement of the
following significant fact,
which lately occurred at
B ussels:—
" On Thursday his Royal High-
ness, accompanied by a single aide-
de-camp, rode on horseback slowly
into town."
What a picture of com-
bined simplicity and grand-
eur ! It will be readily ima-
gined that a narrative thus
commencing would proceed
to relate something extra-
ordinary, if not a circum-
stance, quite so stupendous
as this:—
" On approaching the Porte de
Cologne, he suddenly stopped his
horse, and, accosting a humble
labourer employed on the road aide,
politely asked permission to light
his cigar by the pipe which the poor man was then smoking."
A Royal Duke asking a labourer for a light—only fancy that ! What
is there to pattern it in the history of the world ? The condescension,
perhaps, of a few angels, who, as we read, accepted of mortals' hospi-
rality. Nothing else ; nothing less. It beats the romance of tire
King and the Miller of Mansfield hollow.
The historian proceeds :—
" I need scarcely say that the request was acceded to with, the greatest pleasure and
alacrity."
The pleasure was, doubtless, more exquisite than that experienced
by the gentleman on being spoken to by his sovereign, when the
monarch told him to get out of the way; and the alacrry witb which
the light was supplied to the Duke was perhaps almost as remarkable
as that with which the obstacle took itself away from the face of the king.
Now for the sequel of this exciting story :—
" The Duke having enkindled his cigar in the way designated, familiarly returned
the pipe into the hands of the labourer, and, thanking him for the kindness thus ren-
dered him, raised his hat from his head while graciously bidding him fareweU."
An English nobleman under similar circumstances would probably
have given the man sixpence, and the pleasure of the recipient would
have been precisely limited by his idea of the sum. But tne Dukk oe
Brabant gave the ''humble labourer" a far higher than a sixpenny
recompence. He returned the pipe a very different thing from what
he received it. He received it mere clay, he returned it as good as
aluminium—if not gold. "Pipe"—perhaps exclaimed the peasant,
paraphrasinz unconsciously a line of Shaksbeare, and apostrophising i z=^=i — ----
the "entry" which had been sanctified by the suction of a Duke—\
"Pipe, I will hallow thee for this thy deed! " This, of course was | THE BIRTH OF CRINOLINE,
his thought, if not his speech, as he watched the departing apparition if.™.niI ma, nlnrrmn- bow to sbane
of the Royal Highaess who had honoured the tube. Of course, in so * ! ^ wa* JJ°5KE7 ° P
doing, the Duke put the poor felWa pipe out, never to be lighted Whet she'^KSt hSf'of tte cape
85£*. rmore - *sac,ed -*—ed "m^»hf„' a e-
In mode thereof her dress sue piled
With skirts of huge extent.
Brutal Assault. Then danced around her work, and smiled,
„ In bland eniavishment.
We regret to hear that Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, was
attacked the other evening in so brutal a manner that he is st ill suffer-
ing from the shock his nervous system has sustained. Taking advan-
tage of the Doctor's long disuse of English, a facetious rufikn contrived,
before the worthy Doctor could find words to stop him, to discharge in
his ear this appalling riddle
Deleterious Compound.
Th3 Incorporated Law Society proposes a concentration of the
, Courts of Law and Equity. Dreadful! Law is bad enough by itself,
^ W-hat, African lake derives its name apparently from an elderly and Equity is too bad, but Law and Equity combined and concentrated
a a 9 that baS been hanging up a fortnight in the hottest of the will be as bad as bad can be. If their respective courts are congregated
dogdays? under one roof, as is recommended, their pernicious atmospheres will
A. Ren garnet// (By which it is supposed the Cockney miscreant j mingle. The resulting compound will resemble a mixture of carbonio
meant to say Ngamt.) ! acid gas and sulphuretted hydrogen.