DOI Heft:
September 20, 1862
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16870#0132
September 20, 1862.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
125
PERSIGNY ON PEDIGREE.
r Bernard Burke
is respectfully in-
formed that M. de
Persigny, the other
day, at Montbrison,
in the department of
the Loire anciently
called the Porez, pre-
siding at the inaugu-
ration of “ La Liana/
an archaeological so-
ciety, just revived
there, made a speech
about nobility, mainly
directed to show that
the blood of noblemen
and commoners is es-
sentially the same
fluid, and citing the
Arabs, and the Scotch,
as the two peoples in
the world who are dis-
tinguished from the
rest of it by taking
that philosophical
view of the subject.
To the descendants
of Ishmael, however,
and to the natives of
the land of thistles,
are to be added the
inhabitants of the
Loire, according to
the Imperial Minister
of the Interior; who
said:—
“ So, as the Campbells
and Macdonalds, we of
this district or province to which I belong, having the same origin, feeling within our veins the same blood,
inheriting the same traditions, have formed ourselves into a clan which is called Forez.”
A very good imitation of Clan
the Mac, which the Campbells have
Campbell, and the Macdonalds, is Clan Porez; minus
lor we all know that Campbell is only an alias, as the
celebrated thief Rob Roy might have remarked
when he stated that his foot was now on his
native heath, and his name was Mac Gregor.
M. de Persigny and his fellow clansmen of the
Loire had better have taken a genuine original
Scotch name, Mac and all; and there is one which
would have just suited them : the most original
name for any clan that could possibly be selected,
and one singularly according with Persigny’s
ideas of blood and pedigree—Mac Adam.
Rich Muffs, Please Copy.
Naturalists have just discovered that the
Glow-worm feeds on Snails. Some apologetic
sentimentalism is the result of the announcement,
but Mr. Punch (who is a diner-out) sees great
fitness in this arrangement of nature. The slow
folks of society are the proper parties to furnish
dinners for the Brilliant.
A Dirty Business.
The French say that “ Tout chemin mene a
Rome” and certainly their occupation of that
City is a strong proof of it. We only wish that
Louis Napoleon had selected a cleaner way of
getting there.
A VETERINARY FACT.
Vaccination is proposed as a preventive of
small-pox in sheep. We believe it has been tried
and not found to answer, perhaps because the
sheep cannot have the cow-pox.
CONUNDRUM FOR LORD SHAFTESBURY.
'Who is to be the new Archbishop ?
[The answer shall be published when his
Lordship has decided.
I
!
FOREIGN TRAPS EOR ENGLISH FLATS.
In common with many wise and also, he much fears, with many
l’oolish people, Mr. Punch is very frequently receiving invitations to
lay out a small portion of his large weekly earnings in the purchase of
a “chance” or a few dozen of “chances” of winning him a prize in
some continental lottery. This invitation is commonly conveyed in
vastly courteous terms, which seem to keep the word of promise to the
ear, but are likely in most cases to break it to the hope. The last of
these polite epistles wherewith Mr, Punch was favoured was phrased
in tempting language thus:—
“ Frankfort on the Maine.
“ Sir,—We take the liberty of enclosing for your perusal a Prospectus of the Great
Brunswick Money Lottery, guaranteed by Government, and we beg to call your
attention to the great advantages offered to .investers by this speculation ; with such
a small outlay, viz., £1 for a whole share, os. for a quarter, you are enabled to win
the highest prizes mentioned in the Prospectus, viz. 100,000 $, 80,000$, 70.000$,
68,000 $, &e. &c. The first families in England have already invested in this
speculation."
Have they, indeed ? Well, we have no means to negative the state-
ment ; excepting- just to say that the family of Lord Punch have not as
yet subscribed, nor are they likely so to do if his Lordship can prevent
them. As Macbeth says, his Lordship has no such “speculation in his
eyes,” not having any green in them. But besides the strong induce-
ment in the thought of doing that which the first families have done,
the letter under notice further tempts one by asserting that—
“ These Prizes will be paid to you [i. e., if you win them] in ready money, through
a Banker in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, or through any other channel you may
prefer.
“ The Drawings are performed publicly, under the direction of a Government
Commission appointed for the purpose, and we assure you that every Shareholder
has a fair and equal chance whether present at the Drawing or not.
“ An ‘ Official List’ bearing the Government Arms will be forwarded immediately
after the Drawing to your own, or any other address you may desire.
“ You may rest assured that we will do our utmost to promote your interests, and
promising that the strictest secresy shall be observed,
“ We remain, yours, very respectfully,
“ SCHWINDELMANN USD SPITZBUBE. ”
Great must be the comfort even to a loser to have the privilege of
receiving this “ official list ” of all the winning candidates, with the
names and weights of money to which they are entitled. And great
must be the solace to those who have not won, in seeing the list headed
with the Government Arms, as a surety that no black-legs have put
foot in the lottery. In the prospectus which accompanies the letter it
is stated that “ the shares are signed by Blank, Director, and Asterisk,
Inspector, and are provided with the Government weapons ” (this
doubtless being intended as a synonym for “ Arms”). What are the
weapons of the Government we are left to guess, and may conceive>
them what we choose, from a big gun to a battle-axe. One however of
these weapons must, we think, be the long bow, which appears to have
been drawn somewhat strongly in the statements whicn relate to the
“ drawings ” of the shares. That these drawings have some art in
them, Mr. Punch will freely grant; but he inclines to think the art is
not of a high character, and not to be compared with the art wherewith
his own artists weekly charm the world. The drawings in his window-
are in his eye far superior to those in foreign lotteries, and each
one of his Numbers is a prize, and not a blank. Any one who has spare
money to invest may invest it much more safely in Mr. Punch's drawings
than in those which are described in the prospectus above quoted ; and
as gambling is illegal in the eye of English law, Mr. Punch would
recommend all those who have a taste for drawings, to look for them in
Fleet Street and not Frankfort on the Maine.
A Bishop in Partibus Pidelium.
The most, genuine Nolo Episcopari must be uttered by anyone who
reads that Mr. Bishop, an Englishman, convicted by an Italian Court of
Justice of helping the Bourbons, is sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment.
The Southern President is a classical scholar of no mean attainments,
as the following anecdote will testify. Being asked by a Virginian
editor how many new men he thought Lincoln would be able to raise,
the excellent Jefferson answered, “Davis sum, non CEdipus.”
The Best Substitute for Cotton.—Liberal subscriptions for the
poor creatures who are suffering from the want of it.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
125
PERSIGNY ON PEDIGREE.
r Bernard Burke
is respectfully in-
formed that M. de
Persigny, the other
day, at Montbrison,
in the department of
the Loire anciently
called the Porez, pre-
siding at the inaugu-
ration of “ La Liana/
an archaeological so-
ciety, just revived
there, made a speech
about nobility, mainly
directed to show that
the blood of noblemen
and commoners is es-
sentially the same
fluid, and citing the
Arabs, and the Scotch,
as the two peoples in
the world who are dis-
tinguished from the
rest of it by taking
that philosophical
view of the subject.
To the descendants
of Ishmael, however,
and to the natives of
the land of thistles,
are to be added the
inhabitants of the
Loire, according to
the Imperial Minister
of the Interior; who
said:—
“ So, as the Campbells
and Macdonalds, we of
this district or province to which I belong, having the same origin, feeling within our veins the same blood,
inheriting the same traditions, have formed ourselves into a clan which is called Forez.”
A very good imitation of Clan
the Mac, which the Campbells have
Campbell, and the Macdonalds, is Clan Porez; minus
lor we all know that Campbell is only an alias, as the
celebrated thief Rob Roy might have remarked
when he stated that his foot was now on his
native heath, and his name was Mac Gregor.
M. de Persigny and his fellow clansmen of the
Loire had better have taken a genuine original
Scotch name, Mac and all; and there is one which
would have just suited them : the most original
name for any clan that could possibly be selected,
and one singularly according with Persigny’s
ideas of blood and pedigree—Mac Adam.
Rich Muffs, Please Copy.
Naturalists have just discovered that the
Glow-worm feeds on Snails. Some apologetic
sentimentalism is the result of the announcement,
but Mr. Punch (who is a diner-out) sees great
fitness in this arrangement of nature. The slow
folks of society are the proper parties to furnish
dinners for the Brilliant.
A Dirty Business.
The French say that “ Tout chemin mene a
Rome” and certainly their occupation of that
City is a strong proof of it. We only wish that
Louis Napoleon had selected a cleaner way of
getting there.
A VETERINARY FACT.
Vaccination is proposed as a preventive of
small-pox in sheep. We believe it has been tried
and not found to answer, perhaps because the
sheep cannot have the cow-pox.
CONUNDRUM FOR LORD SHAFTESBURY.
'Who is to be the new Archbishop ?
[The answer shall be published when his
Lordship has decided.
I
!
FOREIGN TRAPS EOR ENGLISH FLATS.
In common with many wise and also, he much fears, with many
l’oolish people, Mr. Punch is very frequently receiving invitations to
lay out a small portion of his large weekly earnings in the purchase of
a “chance” or a few dozen of “chances” of winning him a prize in
some continental lottery. This invitation is commonly conveyed in
vastly courteous terms, which seem to keep the word of promise to the
ear, but are likely in most cases to break it to the hope. The last of
these polite epistles wherewith Mr, Punch was favoured was phrased
in tempting language thus:—
“ Frankfort on the Maine.
“ Sir,—We take the liberty of enclosing for your perusal a Prospectus of the Great
Brunswick Money Lottery, guaranteed by Government, and we beg to call your
attention to the great advantages offered to .investers by this speculation ; with such
a small outlay, viz., £1 for a whole share, os. for a quarter, you are enabled to win
the highest prizes mentioned in the Prospectus, viz. 100,000 $, 80,000$, 70.000$,
68,000 $, &e. &c. The first families in England have already invested in this
speculation."
Have they, indeed ? Well, we have no means to negative the state-
ment ; excepting- just to say that the family of Lord Punch have not as
yet subscribed, nor are they likely so to do if his Lordship can prevent
them. As Macbeth says, his Lordship has no such “speculation in his
eyes,” not having any green in them. But besides the strong induce-
ment in the thought of doing that which the first families have done,
the letter under notice further tempts one by asserting that—
“ These Prizes will be paid to you [i. e., if you win them] in ready money, through
a Banker in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, or through any other channel you may
prefer.
“ The Drawings are performed publicly, under the direction of a Government
Commission appointed for the purpose, and we assure you that every Shareholder
has a fair and equal chance whether present at the Drawing or not.
“ An ‘ Official List’ bearing the Government Arms will be forwarded immediately
after the Drawing to your own, or any other address you may desire.
“ You may rest assured that we will do our utmost to promote your interests, and
promising that the strictest secresy shall be observed,
“ We remain, yours, very respectfully,
“ SCHWINDELMANN USD SPITZBUBE. ”
Great must be the comfort even to a loser to have the privilege of
receiving this “ official list ” of all the winning candidates, with the
names and weights of money to which they are entitled. And great
must be the solace to those who have not won, in seeing the list headed
with the Government Arms, as a surety that no black-legs have put
foot in the lottery. In the prospectus which accompanies the letter it
is stated that “ the shares are signed by Blank, Director, and Asterisk,
Inspector, and are provided with the Government weapons ” (this
doubtless being intended as a synonym for “ Arms”). What are the
weapons of the Government we are left to guess, and may conceive>
them what we choose, from a big gun to a battle-axe. One however of
these weapons must, we think, be the long bow, which appears to have
been drawn somewhat strongly in the statements whicn relate to the
“ drawings ” of the shares. That these drawings have some art in
them, Mr. Punch will freely grant; but he inclines to think the art is
not of a high character, and not to be compared with the art wherewith
his own artists weekly charm the world. The drawings in his window-
are in his eye far superior to those in foreign lotteries, and each
one of his Numbers is a prize, and not a blank. Any one who has spare
money to invest may invest it much more safely in Mr. Punch's drawings
than in those which are described in the prospectus above quoted ; and
as gambling is illegal in the eye of English law, Mr. Punch would
recommend all those who have a taste for drawings, to look for them in
Fleet Street and not Frankfort on the Maine.
A Bishop in Partibus Pidelium.
The most, genuine Nolo Episcopari must be uttered by anyone who
reads that Mr. Bishop, an Englishman, convicted by an Italian Court of
Justice of helping the Bourbons, is sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment.
The Southern President is a classical scholar of no mean attainments,
as the following anecdote will testify. Being asked by a Virginian
editor how many new men he thought Lincoln would be able to raise,
the excellent Jefferson answered, “Davis sum, non CEdipus.”
The Best Substitute for Cotton.—Liberal subscriptions for the
poor creatures who are suffering from the want of it.