DOI Heft:
March 21, 1868
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16881#0129
March 21, 1868.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
121
A SERMON ON FASHION.
Extremely Naughty Dove (reading ‘ Le Follct’). “ I really must make myself Different from these Swells; so 1 shall go in
FOR EXTREME MODESTY OF DRESS AND MANNER.”
A CREDIT TO THE CITY OF LONDON.
BY ROWLAND M'ASSER.
The Weekly Dispatch announces that.
“The Commissioner of the City Police is to have his salary raised from £1,000 to
£1,350 a year.”
The Corporation of London is to be congratulated on its appreciation
of valuable services. The office of a Commissioner of Police is no less
honourable than that of a Field-Marshal, whilst it is much more
onerous, for the Police Chief is always on active service. The City
certainly does show a due estimate of policemen. The gallant protec-
tors of life aud property within the domains of Gog and Magog are all
line able-bodied men, who look as if they were accustomed to live on
prize beef. This argues decent pay. If Scotland Yard were in the
City, Sir Richard Mayne, ere now, would doubtless have received
his full retiring pension.
u And doth not a Meeting like this make Amends ?”
Lord Chelmsford, having been presented with the sack, has had
an interview with Lord Disraeli (we anticipate the title), who
deprived him of the woolsack. As to what transpired at this affecting
interview, the newspapers unkindly have left us in the dark : excepting
that they mention that Lord C. and Mr. D. (we cancel our anticipa-
tion) had “shaken hands” ere parting, and this, in certain circles, is
commonly the prelude of a regular set-to.
Word-Pie in Parliament.
0 the words that we have ealen.
And to eat that we have still!
What for us those meals can sweeten ?
Place, my Brothers. Yes ; that will!
Tiie Deaf Man’s Paradise.—The Audit Office.
One of the Musical Maeazines (Publishers' Organs ?') contains this
month a Song called “ Kissing her Hair.” The following additional
verse has been composed, in the event of an encore :—
“ Kissing her Hair”—scented and glossy.
Ah ! well I remember my rapture,
At the ball where the talk had been “hossy,”
The run and the ultimate capture :
Withdrawn from the lights and the whirl,
We had paused in the Tally-ho valse.
When, my lips on the pendulous curl,
She whispered—“ You Silly, it’s false.”
Beaks and Bell-Ringers at Cambridge.
Bell-ringing is included among the manly sports which are suit
able, of course, for the columns of Bell’s Life. But the Magistrates o't
Cambridge do not .approve of that recreation. They lately had before
them two cases on successive days, in which Undergraduates were
charged with ringing bells without lawful excuse ; and they have
threatened to send the next offender in this kind to prison without the
option of a fine. Bell-ringers will probably take that to constitute a
case for appeal.
A WORD FOR THE VULGAR TONGUE.
A Cosmetic, asserted to bestow “ a beautiful complexion,” is adver-
j tised under the denomination of “Milk of Cucumbers.” What, do
cucumbers give milk ? Then the humbler classes are right in calling
| them cow-cumbers. _
| Poor Cookery.—It does not seem likely that Ministers will succeed
i in getting the National Dish changed. Irish stew, we are afraid, will
| not yield to Mayonnaise.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
121
A SERMON ON FASHION.
Extremely Naughty Dove (reading ‘ Le Follct’). “ I really must make myself Different from these Swells; so 1 shall go in
FOR EXTREME MODESTY OF DRESS AND MANNER.”
A CREDIT TO THE CITY OF LONDON.
BY ROWLAND M'ASSER.
The Weekly Dispatch announces that.
“The Commissioner of the City Police is to have his salary raised from £1,000 to
£1,350 a year.”
The Corporation of London is to be congratulated on its appreciation
of valuable services. The office of a Commissioner of Police is no less
honourable than that of a Field-Marshal, whilst it is much more
onerous, for the Police Chief is always on active service. The City
certainly does show a due estimate of policemen. The gallant protec-
tors of life aud property within the domains of Gog and Magog are all
line able-bodied men, who look as if they were accustomed to live on
prize beef. This argues decent pay. If Scotland Yard were in the
City, Sir Richard Mayne, ere now, would doubtless have received
his full retiring pension.
u And doth not a Meeting like this make Amends ?”
Lord Chelmsford, having been presented with the sack, has had
an interview with Lord Disraeli (we anticipate the title), who
deprived him of the woolsack. As to what transpired at this affecting
interview, the newspapers unkindly have left us in the dark : excepting
that they mention that Lord C. and Mr. D. (we cancel our anticipa-
tion) had “shaken hands” ere parting, and this, in certain circles, is
commonly the prelude of a regular set-to.
Word-Pie in Parliament.
0 the words that we have ealen.
And to eat that we have still!
What for us those meals can sweeten ?
Place, my Brothers. Yes ; that will!
Tiie Deaf Man’s Paradise.—The Audit Office.
One of the Musical Maeazines (Publishers' Organs ?') contains this
month a Song called “ Kissing her Hair.” The following additional
verse has been composed, in the event of an encore :—
“ Kissing her Hair”—scented and glossy.
Ah ! well I remember my rapture,
At the ball where the talk had been “hossy,”
The run and the ultimate capture :
Withdrawn from the lights and the whirl,
We had paused in the Tally-ho valse.
When, my lips on the pendulous curl,
She whispered—“ You Silly, it’s false.”
Beaks and Bell-Ringers at Cambridge.
Bell-ringing is included among the manly sports which are suit
able, of course, for the columns of Bell’s Life. But the Magistrates o't
Cambridge do not .approve of that recreation. They lately had before
them two cases on successive days, in which Undergraduates were
charged with ringing bells without lawful excuse ; and they have
threatened to send the next offender in this kind to prison without the
option of a fine. Bell-ringers will probably take that to constitute a
case for appeal.
A WORD FOR THE VULGAR TONGUE.
A Cosmetic, asserted to bestow “ a beautiful complexion,” is adver-
j tised under the denomination of “Milk of Cucumbers.” What, do
cucumbers give milk ? Then the humbler classes are right in calling
| them cow-cumbers. _
| Poor Cookery.—It does not seem likely that Ministers will succeed
i in getting the National Dish changed. Irish stew, we are afraid, will
| not yield to Mayonnaise.