DOI issue:
February 27, 1858
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16621#0097
February 27, 185S._ PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 89
ODDITIES OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
The Electric Telegraph is continually making the drollest
mistakes. The other day came the subjoined telegram in
reference to the Dacca mutineers :—
"Abeyule ft keeping a sharp look-out for them."
"Frater," in a letter to the Times, suggested that
Abrytjle was probably Mr. Yule, the energetic Commis-
sioner of the Bhaulgulpore division. But how came the
telegraph to call Mb.. Ytjle Abry ? Is his name Abraham,
and was Abry delivered as the abbreviation of that name
by the sender of the message ? or is Abry to be regarded
merely in the light of a telegraphic mull ? This may seem
a question of not very much importance, but it opens up
an interesting field of inquiry. The wire which creates
nicknames may coin new phrases, and the British vocabu-
lary may be indefinitely augmented by the blunders of
the Electric Telegraph.
A PIBROCH EOR BREAKFAST.
Hech, ho, the Highland laddie !
Hech, ho, the Fiimou haddie !
Breeks awa',
Hech, the braw,
Ho, the bonnie tartan plaidie !
Hech, the laddie,
Ho, the haddie,
Hech, ho, the cummer's caddie,
Dinna forget
The bannocks het,
Gin ye luve jour Highland laddie.
PORTRAIT OF MR. JOHN BULL, AS PAINTED BY HIS " BRAVE ALLIES,"
THE FRENCH COLONELS.
Paris in a Ferment.
We make the following extract from our esteemed
contemporary, the Morning Advertiser:—■
" Ever since the discovery in the French capital that the plot for
the assassination of Louis Napoleon was of Allsopp's brewing-, the
cry has been more than ever general in Paris—A Bass L'Anglelerre ! "
A Soldier's Proverb.—Heaven sent us meat, and
Routine cooks.
SERIOUS SLANG.
Serious gentlemen sometimes commit grave errors. The other day,
at Exeter Hall, occurred a meeting of a society established for a
purpose more praiseworthy than practicable—the Christianizing of the
Jews. In proposing a resolution, otherwise, as an illustrious Duke
now deceased would have said, very proper, a worthy gentleman, the
Rev. Thomas Birrs, made use of the extraordinary phrase, "raising
our Ebenezer for grace already granted." We suppose that the
estimable Mr. Birrs did not mean to describe taking off the hat by
that curious expression, which we think is employed by the coarser
classes to signify that act of respect. That this is the exact sense in
which it is used by the unpolished orders we are not quite sure ; but
of what Mr. Birks intended by it we have no idea whatever.
We would caution serious young men against indulgence in language
of this description. There is nothing, indeed, morally improper in the
use of suchlike idioms and forms of speech. Neither, perhaps, is there
in calling a shilling a bob, which we think is a name that cabmen and
others of the common people are accustomed to apply to that coin, or
in designating, as we also believe they usually do, participation in any
festivity, as " flaring up." All terms of this kind come under the head
of Slang; in which category must also be included the metaphor of
"raising our Ebenezer." The meeting-house and the platform have
their flash vocabulary as well as the turf and the canine arena; but as
a gentleman may be addicted to sport without adopting the dialect of
jockeys and dog-fanciers, so may he entertain low Church principles
without, condescending to enunciate them in low Church language,
that is in language so very low as to be positively vulgar.
QUESTIONABLE POLICY.
By the case of " Pritchard v. The Merchant's and Tradesman's
Life Assurance Office," it appears that, though a Life Assurance
Office may allow thirty days of grace for the payment of the rate of
insurance, yet, if the person whose life is supposed to have been insured
should die within that term, leaving the payment last due unmade, his
Policy becomes void. People may not generally be_ aware that a Life
Assurance Policy is so delicate and precarious a thing as it appears to
be ; and it is well that they should know. Some people may, for in-
vestment of a provision for their families, prefer an old stocking even
to a Life Assurance Office. The uncertainty of human life has always
been a theme for moralists; but now, perhaps, they will begin to
preach also on the uncertainty of Life Assurance.
Latest from Paris.
The following official announcement appeared yesterday in the
Moniteur:—
" Petticoats are the only French Destitutions which the Government will hence-
lorth permit to expand."
Emigration.—Palmerston is earnestly recommended to take a
trip to India—he is so rapidly losing caste in England.
" COUPE DE CHEVEUX POUR DAMES."
This is the way in which Ladies' Hair is cut in Bavaria:—
" a Cowardly Scamp.—It has been discovered that Prince Luitpold, of Bavaria,
brother of the King, is the dastard who has amused himself by cutting off the tresses
from the heads of young girls at Munich."
If this slashing young blade is allowed to remain at the head of the
State, it should simply be in the capacity of—
HAIR-CUTTER TO THE CROWN.
We propose that the motto of this Prince of Hair-Cutters, for the
future, should be:—
" 3ut Scissors, aui fiullus."
TnE PARLIAMENTARY digest.
An intelligent waiter at Bellamy's says:—" The Debates are rump-
steaks and onions early in the morning, suet-dumplings in the middle
of the day, and pork-chops late at night."
a joke of THE TIME.
The town said that Palmerston's new Seal (Clanricarde) made
a very bad impression.
ODDITIES OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
The Electric Telegraph is continually making the drollest
mistakes. The other day came the subjoined telegram in
reference to the Dacca mutineers :—
"Abeyule ft keeping a sharp look-out for them."
"Frater," in a letter to the Times, suggested that
Abrytjle was probably Mr. Yule, the energetic Commis-
sioner of the Bhaulgulpore division. But how came the
telegraph to call Mb.. Ytjle Abry ? Is his name Abraham,
and was Abry delivered as the abbreviation of that name
by the sender of the message ? or is Abry to be regarded
merely in the light of a telegraphic mull ? This may seem
a question of not very much importance, but it opens up
an interesting field of inquiry. The wire which creates
nicknames may coin new phrases, and the British vocabu-
lary may be indefinitely augmented by the blunders of
the Electric Telegraph.
A PIBROCH EOR BREAKFAST.
Hech, ho, the Highland laddie !
Hech, ho, the Fiimou haddie !
Breeks awa',
Hech, the braw,
Ho, the bonnie tartan plaidie !
Hech, the laddie,
Ho, the haddie,
Hech, ho, the cummer's caddie,
Dinna forget
The bannocks het,
Gin ye luve jour Highland laddie.
PORTRAIT OF MR. JOHN BULL, AS PAINTED BY HIS " BRAVE ALLIES,"
THE FRENCH COLONELS.
Paris in a Ferment.
We make the following extract from our esteemed
contemporary, the Morning Advertiser:—■
" Ever since the discovery in the French capital that the plot for
the assassination of Louis Napoleon was of Allsopp's brewing-, the
cry has been more than ever general in Paris—A Bass L'Anglelerre ! "
A Soldier's Proverb.—Heaven sent us meat, and
Routine cooks.
SERIOUS SLANG.
Serious gentlemen sometimes commit grave errors. The other day,
at Exeter Hall, occurred a meeting of a society established for a
purpose more praiseworthy than practicable—the Christianizing of the
Jews. In proposing a resolution, otherwise, as an illustrious Duke
now deceased would have said, very proper, a worthy gentleman, the
Rev. Thomas Birrs, made use of the extraordinary phrase, "raising
our Ebenezer for grace already granted." We suppose that the
estimable Mr. Birrs did not mean to describe taking off the hat by
that curious expression, which we think is employed by the coarser
classes to signify that act of respect. That this is the exact sense in
which it is used by the unpolished orders we are not quite sure ; but
of what Mr. Birks intended by it we have no idea whatever.
We would caution serious young men against indulgence in language
of this description. There is nothing, indeed, morally improper in the
use of suchlike idioms and forms of speech. Neither, perhaps, is there
in calling a shilling a bob, which we think is a name that cabmen and
others of the common people are accustomed to apply to that coin, or
in designating, as we also believe they usually do, participation in any
festivity, as " flaring up." All terms of this kind come under the head
of Slang; in which category must also be included the metaphor of
"raising our Ebenezer." The meeting-house and the platform have
their flash vocabulary as well as the turf and the canine arena; but as
a gentleman may be addicted to sport without adopting the dialect of
jockeys and dog-fanciers, so may he entertain low Church principles
without, condescending to enunciate them in low Church language,
that is in language so very low as to be positively vulgar.
QUESTIONABLE POLICY.
By the case of " Pritchard v. The Merchant's and Tradesman's
Life Assurance Office," it appears that, though a Life Assurance
Office may allow thirty days of grace for the payment of the rate of
insurance, yet, if the person whose life is supposed to have been insured
should die within that term, leaving the payment last due unmade, his
Policy becomes void. People may not generally be_ aware that a Life
Assurance Policy is so delicate and precarious a thing as it appears to
be ; and it is well that they should know. Some people may, for in-
vestment of a provision for their families, prefer an old stocking even
to a Life Assurance Office. The uncertainty of human life has always
been a theme for moralists; but now, perhaps, they will begin to
preach also on the uncertainty of Life Assurance.
Latest from Paris.
The following official announcement appeared yesterday in the
Moniteur:—
" Petticoats are the only French Destitutions which the Government will hence-
lorth permit to expand."
Emigration.—Palmerston is earnestly recommended to take a
trip to India—he is so rapidly losing caste in England.
" COUPE DE CHEVEUX POUR DAMES."
This is the way in which Ladies' Hair is cut in Bavaria:—
" a Cowardly Scamp.—It has been discovered that Prince Luitpold, of Bavaria,
brother of the King, is the dastard who has amused himself by cutting off the tresses
from the heads of young girls at Munich."
If this slashing young blade is allowed to remain at the head of the
State, it should simply be in the capacity of—
HAIR-CUTTER TO THE CROWN.
We propose that the motto of this Prince of Hair-Cutters, for the
future, should be:—
" 3ut Scissors, aui fiullus."
TnE PARLIAMENTARY digest.
An intelligent waiter at Bellamy's says:—" The Debates are rump-
steaks and onions early in the morning, suet-dumplings in the middle
of the day, and pork-chops late at night."
a joke of THE TIME.
The town said that Palmerston's new Seal (Clanricarde) made
a very bad impression.