DOI Heft:
October 25, 1873
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16937#0176
164
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[October 25, 1873.
THE WRONG PIG.
Thor gott’st as good as thou didst bring,
0 Prisoner of the Vatican!
The German Kaiser, Prussia’s King,
Laid hold on, proved the wrong old man.
As fares the swineherd, that a boar,
Mistaken, by the ear hath got,
And roused to turn on him and gore ;
Such is thine own disastrous lot.
To Kaiser Wilhelm talk as though
From heaven above ; and bid him bow !
As to all that, he’d have thee know
He better knows what’s what than thou.
Hadst thou forgotten, then, his raid
On Denmark, and his French campaign ;
Thanksgivings for celestial aid :
Thousands and tens of thousands slain ?
Thanks for the triumph in that fight
Whose issue was, all people see,
The overthrow of Gallic might;
Thence Pome directly reft from thee ?
Him thou, forsooth, didst take to task,
Him in religion think to school!
How couldst thou F Were ’t not rude to ask—
How could a Pope he such a fool ?
Whi is the City of Bath like the celebrated Dr. Johnson ?
Because it has shown its liking for a good Haytee.
POLITICS r. PHAKMACY.
(See Gladstone's Case.)
In practice, Dover's Powder is exhibited
As diuretic, opiate, sudorific,
With powers of forwarding reaction credited,
For lowering purposes a strong specific.
But James's Powder, till now thought more fitted
To lower than raise one’s corporal harmonics,
Must henceforth to new functions be admitted,
As one of the most pick-me-up of tonics !
The Toast of Truth.
At many of the public dinners which abound during this Parlia-
mentary vacation time, amongst the various toasts dr.unk on those
festive occasions, the health of “Ministers and Clergy of all De-
nominations ” is included. An Emperor of China is said, whenever
he fell ill, to have used to call in all his doctors to prescribe for him,
have their various prescriptions severally made up, and the whole
of the medicines so compounded apart then mixed together ; when,
he swallowed the lot, supposing* that, amongst them all, he must
take the right one. A similar idea may be supposed to be contem-
plated in proposing the toast of the *' Ministers and Clergy of all
Denominations.” _
A Sweet Title.
The Ceylon Observer suggests that “the Prince oe Kandt would
he a right Royal title to bestow, say on the second son of the Prince
of Wales—the little Prince George.” Gur candid opinion is, that
the little Prince himself (born June 3rd, 1865) might prefer to be
Prince of Sugar Kandy.
FROM THE COAL DISTRICTS.
My Lady. “I’m afraid I must give up the Pine-Apple, Mr. Green ! Eight Shillings is really too much ! ”
Successful Collier. “Just put ’un up for me, then, Master. ’Ere’s ’Arf a Sovereign ; and look ’ere—yer may keep the
Change if yer’ll only tell vs 'ow to Cook ’un!"
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[October 25, 1873.
THE WRONG PIG.
Thor gott’st as good as thou didst bring,
0 Prisoner of the Vatican!
The German Kaiser, Prussia’s King,
Laid hold on, proved the wrong old man.
As fares the swineherd, that a boar,
Mistaken, by the ear hath got,
And roused to turn on him and gore ;
Such is thine own disastrous lot.
To Kaiser Wilhelm talk as though
From heaven above ; and bid him bow !
As to all that, he’d have thee know
He better knows what’s what than thou.
Hadst thou forgotten, then, his raid
On Denmark, and his French campaign ;
Thanksgivings for celestial aid :
Thousands and tens of thousands slain ?
Thanks for the triumph in that fight
Whose issue was, all people see,
The overthrow of Gallic might;
Thence Pome directly reft from thee ?
Him thou, forsooth, didst take to task,
Him in religion think to school!
How couldst thou F Were ’t not rude to ask—
How could a Pope he such a fool ?
Whi is the City of Bath like the celebrated Dr. Johnson ?
Because it has shown its liking for a good Haytee.
POLITICS r. PHAKMACY.
(See Gladstone's Case.)
In practice, Dover's Powder is exhibited
As diuretic, opiate, sudorific,
With powers of forwarding reaction credited,
For lowering purposes a strong specific.
But James's Powder, till now thought more fitted
To lower than raise one’s corporal harmonics,
Must henceforth to new functions be admitted,
As one of the most pick-me-up of tonics !
The Toast of Truth.
At many of the public dinners which abound during this Parlia-
mentary vacation time, amongst the various toasts dr.unk on those
festive occasions, the health of “Ministers and Clergy of all De-
nominations ” is included. An Emperor of China is said, whenever
he fell ill, to have used to call in all his doctors to prescribe for him,
have their various prescriptions severally made up, and the whole
of the medicines so compounded apart then mixed together ; when,
he swallowed the lot, supposing* that, amongst them all, he must
take the right one. A similar idea may be supposed to be contem-
plated in proposing the toast of the *' Ministers and Clergy of all
Denominations.” _
A Sweet Title.
The Ceylon Observer suggests that “the Prince oe Kandt would
he a right Royal title to bestow, say on the second son of the Prince
of Wales—the little Prince George.” Gur candid opinion is, that
the little Prince himself (born June 3rd, 1865) might prefer to be
Prince of Sugar Kandy.
FROM THE COAL DISTRICTS.
My Lady. “I’m afraid I must give up the Pine-Apple, Mr. Green ! Eight Shillings is really too much ! ”
Successful Collier. “Just put ’un up for me, then, Master. ’Ere’s ’Arf a Sovereign ; and look ’ere—yer may keep the
Change if yer’ll only tell vs 'ow to Cook ’un!"