DOI issue:
September 27, 1862
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16870#0143
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
| September 27, 1862.
IN THE BAY OF BISCAY, Q!”
The Last Sweet Things in Hats and Walking Sticks at Biarritz.
“ NEWS FROM THE STYX.”
The mandate of fashion has gone forth, and as may be read in the
Follet, and seen at certain Erencti and English watering places, a Lady
is henceforth if she wishes to be considered as completely furnished, to
carry a Stick. We see no objection to the arrangement, indeed we
suppose that it. is a logical necessity consequent upon the increase in
crinoline. As it is now impossible for a properly dressed lady to reach
a friend with her hand, she is supplied with the means of giving him a
poke with a stick when desirous to attract his attention. All we
venture to hope is, that the stick is to be blunt at the end, and not
armed with a tiny spike, as in the latter case a short-sighted Lord Dun-
dreary, with a large circle of lady-acquaintances eager to speak to him
might, on returning home to dress, find himself unpleasantly covered
with scars aud spots. On the whole there is more seuse in this new
contrivance than is usually to be found in the conceptions of the tyrant-
milliner.
“ON A DUCK’S BACK DO I FLY.”
A Clever London comedian has done an extremely silly thing in
oing along the cord of M. Blondin, on that Canadian duck’s back.
11-nat.ured people say that this is another proof that a very good actor
may be a very great goose, but we hate all that sort of talk, and prefer
to return the thanks of the press to a gentleman who, at so very small
an expense, has helped all the paragraph writers in the kingdom to
smart headings for the anecdote. To have caused scores of hard-up
wits to speak of an actor trying a new line, of his elevated style, of
evenly balanced periods and poles, of the loftier walk of ( lie drama, and
to quote “what a fall Fortune does the party owe” is surely an honour
cheaply purchased at the price. But things are bungled in England—
his manager should have announced for the night before, the last appear-
ance of Mr. Noddy before his going upon the Blondin rope, and the
house would have been crowded with sensationists. We suggest the
idea, however, to dramatic speculators in want of a stronger interest than
can be got out of mere murder-pieces.
INDIAN BULLETINS.
Mr. Laing has delivered a long and able speech upon the blunders
of the Home Government of India. Upon inquiring, the following
morning, at the residence of Sir Charles Wood, Punch found
that the right honourable gentleman was quite as well as could be
expected, inasmuch as he had been reading the speech for seven hours
only, and therefore of course had not as yet. been able to understand it.
{A Later Account.)
Sir Charles Wood has arrived at a knowledge of the fatal truth
that he is demolished. With characteristic pluck, he has sent out for
the volume of the Dnglish Cyclopcedia containing the article “ India,”
and for Pinnock’s Catechism of Arithmetic, with a view to ulterior
proceedings.
(Later Still.)
Sir Charles Wood has discovered that an Anna does not mean a
young lady, that Pice is uot, as he had supposed, the Indian plural of
Pie, and that Bangles are not things to eat. He meditates a triumphant
answer to Mr. Laing. More particulars in our next issue.
A Revolution in Russia
A Revolution has occurred in Russia where it was least expected.
We beg of the reader to peruse attentively the following fact:—
“The Invalide Russe mentions a curious piece of economy just effected in its
printing office. An e mute in Russian orthography is added to every syllable ter-
minating in a consonant. This useless letter it has been resolved to suppress, and
a saving of three per cent in the expense of composition is the result.”
This is the revolution we refer to, though fortunately it has been put
down at the expense of very little lead, unlike most revolutions in
Russia. Doesn’t the Emreror Alexander devoutly wish that, with
no greater sacrifice of ease, he could suppress all e-meutes in Russia ?
The Cry of the Day.—Pull Machine, pull Baker!
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
| September 27, 1862.
IN THE BAY OF BISCAY, Q!”
The Last Sweet Things in Hats and Walking Sticks at Biarritz.
“ NEWS FROM THE STYX.”
The mandate of fashion has gone forth, and as may be read in the
Follet, and seen at certain Erencti and English watering places, a Lady
is henceforth if she wishes to be considered as completely furnished, to
carry a Stick. We see no objection to the arrangement, indeed we
suppose that it. is a logical necessity consequent upon the increase in
crinoline. As it is now impossible for a properly dressed lady to reach
a friend with her hand, she is supplied with the means of giving him a
poke with a stick when desirous to attract his attention. All we
venture to hope is, that the stick is to be blunt at the end, and not
armed with a tiny spike, as in the latter case a short-sighted Lord Dun-
dreary, with a large circle of lady-acquaintances eager to speak to him
might, on returning home to dress, find himself unpleasantly covered
with scars aud spots. On the whole there is more seuse in this new
contrivance than is usually to be found in the conceptions of the tyrant-
milliner.
“ON A DUCK’S BACK DO I FLY.”
A Clever London comedian has done an extremely silly thing in
oing along the cord of M. Blondin, on that Canadian duck’s back.
11-nat.ured people say that this is another proof that a very good actor
may be a very great goose, but we hate all that sort of talk, and prefer
to return the thanks of the press to a gentleman who, at so very small
an expense, has helped all the paragraph writers in the kingdom to
smart headings for the anecdote. To have caused scores of hard-up
wits to speak of an actor trying a new line, of his elevated style, of
evenly balanced periods and poles, of the loftier walk of ( lie drama, and
to quote “what a fall Fortune does the party owe” is surely an honour
cheaply purchased at the price. But things are bungled in England—
his manager should have announced for the night before, the last appear-
ance of Mr. Noddy before his going upon the Blondin rope, and the
house would have been crowded with sensationists. We suggest the
idea, however, to dramatic speculators in want of a stronger interest than
can be got out of mere murder-pieces.
INDIAN BULLETINS.
Mr. Laing has delivered a long and able speech upon the blunders
of the Home Government of India. Upon inquiring, the following
morning, at the residence of Sir Charles Wood, Punch found
that the right honourable gentleman was quite as well as could be
expected, inasmuch as he had been reading the speech for seven hours
only, and therefore of course had not as yet. been able to understand it.
{A Later Account.)
Sir Charles Wood has arrived at a knowledge of the fatal truth
that he is demolished. With characteristic pluck, he has sent out for
the volume of the Dnglish Cyclopcedia containing the article “ India,”
and for Pinnock’s Catechism of Arithmetic, with a view to ulterior
proceedings.
(Later Still.)
Sir Charles Wood has discovered that an Anna does not mean a
young lady, that Pice is uot, as he had supposed, the Indian plural of
Pie, and that Bangles are not things to eat. He meditates a triumphant
answer to Mr. Laing. More particulars in our next issue.
A Revolution in Russia
A Revolution has occurred in Russia where it was least expected.
We beg of the reader to peruse attentively the following fact:—
“The Invalide Russe mentions a curious piece of economy just effected in its
printing office. An e mute in Russian orthography is added to every syllable ter-
minating in a consonant. This useless letter it has been resolved to suppress, and
a saving of three per cent in the expense of composition is the result.”
This is the revolution we refer to, though fortunately it has been put
down at the expense of very little lead, unlike most revolutions in
Russia. Doesn’t the Emreror Alexander devoutly wish that, with
no greater sacrifice of ease, he could suppress all e-meutes in Russia ?
The Cry of the Day.—Pull Machine, pull Baker!