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February 23, 1867
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [February 23, 1867.
“WHAT'S THE ODDS?"
Purchaser. “ He’s rather Heavy about the Head, isn’t he ? ”
Dealer {can't deny it). “Well, Sir! {Happy thought.) But y’see, Sir, he’ll iiev to Carry it hisself !”
A LIBERAL BOROUGH.
Here is a fine opening for a nice young man of business :—
THE Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of tlie Borough of Glossop will,
at the next meeting of the Council, consider the appointment of a TOWN
CLERK: salary £30 per annum for all business except parliamentary business and
suits at law or in equity.
Little to do, and plenty to get, as the soldier said when they ordered
him fifteen hundred lashes.” Such would seem to be the notion of the
office of town-clerk among the magnates of Glossop. What their
politics may be, we do not care to ask; but in one sense, at any rate,
a borough must.be liberal which offers its town-clerk such a splendidly
fine salary. Thirty pounds per annum ! Only fancy that! And there
are merely twenty thousand people in the borough! Their town-clerk
must of course be a practising solicitor, and for his thirty pounds
a-year will merely have to write some scores of letters every week, and
to advise the Mayor and Aldermen on countless points of law, and to
peruse and prepare no end of contracts and conveyances, and, indeed,
to do at least nine-tenths of the law work of the borough. Who is
there that bids for such a lucrative appointment ? Don’t be backward,
gentlemen of the law, in stepping forward. Only think how perfectly
the business of the borough will be done, if the doing be but equal to
the price which is paid for it!
Polygamy and Persecution.
In Mr. Hepworth Dixon’s interesting book on America we are
informed that the Yankees contemplate making war upon the Saints,
and breaking up the Mormon settlement of Utah. Had they not better
abide by the principle of toleration, and let the Mormons remain
unmolested on a basis of Utah possidetis ?
To Medical Students.—Be well up in all that is required of you,
but above all, never be deficient in the sinews—of war.
0N,
CHEAP, AND NOT OYER NICE.
A Correspondent cuts the following from the Manchester Exa-
miner :—
SALE, very Cheap, a PULPIT, suitable for a small Chapel; also
a quantity of Hooks and Rails for a butcher’s shop.
This seems rather an odd lot, as an auctioneer would say. But as
misery acquaints a person with strange bed-fellows., so a Pulpit may
occasionally be thrown into queer company. Still, a second-hand
Pulpit is somewhat of a novelty; and we should think, to make it
saleable, its pedigree should be described. We should fancy that high
churchmen would hardly like to preach from the Pulpits of Dissenters.
Actors have a saying that “ the words are in the wig ; ” and doctrines
may be found to have impregnated a pulpit. Were a Wesleyan to
preach from the pulpit of a Puseyite, what a curious discourse might
possibly be delivered!
Tory Slanders.
The base, slanderous, and insolent assertion that on the day of the
Manhood Suffrage Demonstration Mr Beales (M.A.) intended to
wear a coloured scarf, though he had informed an anxious universe
that he proposed to wear a white one, was completely contradicted.
We are, however, requested to state that there was no authority for
the other malignant rumour that, a cold in the head threatening to
disable Mr. Beales (M.A.) from making his triumphal march on the
11th, the Manager of Covent Garden Theatre offered as substitute for
Mr. Beales (M.A.) the celebrated Donkey in Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves.
QUESTION FOR MR. DISRAELI.
Will a Clergyman, holding more than one living, be entitled to a
plurality of votes ?
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [February 23, 1867.
“WHAT'S THE ODDS?"
Purchaser. “ He’s rather Heavy about the Head, isn’t he ? ”
Dealer {can't deny it). “Well, Sir! {Happy thought.) But y’see, Sir, he’ll iiev to Carry it hisself !”
A LIBERAL BOROUGH.
Here is a fine opening for a nice young man of business :—
THE Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of tlie Borough of Glossop will,
at the next meeting of the Council, consider the appointment of a TOWN
CLERK: salary £30 per annum for all business except parliamentary business and
suits at law or in equity.
Little to do, and plenty to get, as the soldier said when they ordered
him fifteen hundred lashes.” Such would seem to be the notion of the
office of town-clerk among the magnates of Glossop. What their
politics may be, we do not care to ask; but in one sense, at any rate,
a borough must.be liberal which offers its town-clerk such a splendidly
fine salary. Thirty pounds per annum ! Only fancy that! And there
are merely twenty thousand people in the borough! Their town-clerk
must of course be a practising solicitor, and for his thirty pounds
a-year will merely have to write some scores of letters every week, and
to advise the Mayor and Aldermen on countless points of law, and to
peruse and prepare no end of contracts and conveyances, and, indeed,
to do at least nine-tenths of the law work of the borough. Who is
there that bids for such a lucrative appointment ? Don’t be backward,
gentlemen of the law, in stepping forward. Only think how perfectly
the business of the borough will be done, if the doing be but equal to
the price which is paid for it!
Polygamy and Persecution.
In Mr. Hepworth Dixon’s interesting book on America we are
informed that the Yankees contemplate making war upon the Saints,
and breaking up the Mormon settlement of Utah. Had they not better
abide by the principle of toleration, and let the Mormons remain
unmolested on a basis of Utah possidetis ?
To Medical Students.—Be well up in all that is required of you,
but above all, never be deficient in the sinews—of war.
0N,
CHEAP, AND NOT OYER NICE.
A Correspondent cuts the following from the Manchester Exa-
miner :—
SALE, very Cheap, a PULPIT, suitable for a small Chapel; also
a quantity of Hooks and Rails for a butcher’s shop.
This seems rather an odd lot, as an auctioneer would say. But as
misery acquaints a person with strange bed-fellows., so a Pulpit may
occasionally be thrown into queer company. Still, a second-hand
Pulpit is somewhat of a novelty; and we should think, to make it
saleable, its pedigree should be described. We should fancy that high
churchmen would hardly like to preach from the Pulpits of Dissenters.
Actors have a saying that “ the words are in the wig ; ” and doctrines
may be found to have impregnated a pulpit. Were a Wesleyan to
preach from the pulpit of a Puseyite, what a curious discourse might
possibly be delivered!
Tory Slanders.
The base, slanderous, and insolent assertion that on the day of the
Manhood Suffrage Demonstration Mr Beales (M.A.) intended to
wear a coloured scarf, though he had informed an anxious universe
that he proposed to wear a white one, was completely contradicted.
We are, however, requested to state that there was no authority for
the other malignant rumour that, a cold in the head threatening to
disable Mr. Beales (M.A.) from making his triumphal march on the
11th, the Manager of Covent Garden Theatre offered as substitute for
Mr. Beales (M.A.) the celebrated Donkey in Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves.
QUESTION FOR MR. DISRAELI.
Will a Clergyman, holding more than one living, be entitled to a
plurality of votes ?