DOI issue:
November 29, 1873
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16937#0234
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[November 29, 1873.
TOO TRUE.
Cabby (after a squabble, pocketing his overcharge.) “’Just my Bare Fare, tha’s what it is!”
Old Gent. “If it wasn’t such a Bad Day, Sir, you shouldn’t have had it, I can Tell you ! ”
Cabby. “ No ; ’cause you’d a gone Third-Class by th’ Underground, and then Walked up the Road ! ”
THE NEW RAILWAY OATH.
Mr. Forsyth’s victory over one Railway Company, wliicli has
been compelled to pay the expenses he incurred through the said
Company’s not conveying him according to contract, and the
menacing notice which the Board of Trade has given to all the
Companies, touching Railway Accidents, have aroused the haughty
Directors to a sense of the situation. An extraordinary meeting of
the authorities is about to be held, and we understand that it Avill
be proposed that an Oath, in about the terms following, shall be
administered by the ticket-clerks to all intending passengers, after
they have paid their money, and before the tickets are flung at them.
In the event of refusal to take the Oath, the money is to be de-
tained, and paid over to the “ Testimonials Fund ”
“ OATH.
“ C * * * * -* * * * *, of if c., do hereby solemnly swear that what-
ever may happen on the journey I am. about to take, I will bring no
sort of action against the * * * * Railway Company, and in the event
of my being killed, I charge my representatives to abstain from all
proceedings, and to write a letter to the management, exonerating it
from all blame, and thanking it for the courteous letter in which it
announced the neivs of my demise. So help ” &;c.
Mill and Miller.
From: the Autobiography of the late John Stuart Mill it appears
that his father, James Stuart Mill, taught him Greek when a child
of tender years, and crammed him besides with all manner of know-
ledges. Of the two Mills the elder one seems the more worthy of
the name, from the prodigious grinding with which he exercised his
son’s genius. Mill Senior was the grinder; Mill Junior the
ground. When Mrs. Mill presented her spouse with an heir, she
brought, in fact, grist to the Mill.
THE KING OF FRANCE.
Health and Salutation to Magenta the First, King of France!
The “ cool old Sworder” has won the game, and reigns more abso-
lutely than Henry Clfla ever hoped to do. Homage to the Sabre !
We have no doubt that he will be a very good King, but the French
Assembly has shown a generous and trustful spirit in taking him
without any conditions whatever. A “ King,” as Mr. Carlyle has
informed us, is a man who “can Do,” and His Majesty King
Magenta has shown his energy and ability in the battle-field.
When we read of the blind fury and frantic scenes which have
marked the change of Government, and when we see how the little
majority of ten has gone up to sixty-eight, nothing succeeding
like success, we feel a profound contempt for our ancestors and'their
cautious, cowardly, deliberate method of transferring authority at
the Revolution. The Assembly has gone more bravely into action,
and we only hope that its work will last as long as that of our
ancestors, with their slavish adherence to precedent, and then*
exaction of Royal guarantees. Vive le Roi Magenta !
An Intoxicating Liquor.
Mr. Walter Burton, lately an Officer of Her Majesty’s Customs,
states, in a letter to the Times, that the average strength of Sherry,
as imported and passed into consumption, is not less than from
thirty-seven to fifty per cent, of proof spirit. So spirituous a liquor
as this should be called, not Sherry, but Sherry-brandy.
Warning.
Excepting British Lions, it is rare
To find the “ Lion ” (fells) “ playing fair.”
Jokers on Names, your noddles will lack plaster
If you send jokes about the new Post-Master.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[November 29, 1873.
TOO TRUE.
Cabby (after a squabble, pocketing his overcharge.) “’Just my Bare Fare, tha’s what it is!”
Old Gent. “If it wasn’t such a Bad Day, Sir, you shouldn’t have had it, I can Tell you ! ”
Cabby. “ No ; ’cause you’d a gone Third-Class by th’ Underground, and then Walked up the Road ! ”
THE NEW RAILWAY OATH.
Mr. Forsyth’s victory over one Railway Company, wliicli has
been compelled to pay the expenses he incurred through the said
Company’s not conveying him according to contract, and the
menacing notice which the Board of Trade has given to all the
Companies, touching Railway Accidents, have aroused the haughty
Directors to a sense of the situation. An extraordinary meeting of
the authorities is about to be held, and we understand that it Avill
be proposed that an Oath, in about the terms following, shall be
administered by the ticket-clerks to all intending passengers, after
they have paid their money, and before the tickets are flung at them.
In the event of refusal to take the Oath, the money is to be de-
tained, and paid over to the “ Testimonials Fund ”
“ OATH.
“ C * * * * -* * * * *, of if c., do hereby solemnly swear that what-
ever may happen on the journey I am. about to take, I will bring no
sort of action against the * * * * Railway Company, and in the event
of my being killed, I charge my representatives to abstain from all
proceedings, and to write a letter to the management, exonerating it
from all blame, and thanking it for the courteous letter in which it
announced the neivs of my demise. So help ” &;c.
Mill and Miller.
From: the Autobiography of the late John Stuart Mill it appears
that his father, James Stuart Mill, taught him Greek when a child
of tender years, and crammed him besides with all manner of know-
ledges. Of the two Mills the elder one seems the more worthy of
the name, from the prodigious grinding with which he exercised his
son’s genius. Mill Senior was the grinder; Mill Junior the
ground. When Mrs. Mill presented her spouse with an heir, she
brought, in fact, grist to the Mill.
THE KING OF FRANCE.
Health and Salutation to Magenta the First, King of France!
The “ cool old Sworder” has won the game, and reigns more abso-
lutely than Henry Clfla ever hoped to do. Homage to the Sabre !
We have no doubt that he will be a very good King, but the French
Assembly has shown a generous and trustful spirit in taking him
without any conditions whatever. A “ King,” as Mr. Carlyle has
informed us, is a man who “can Do,” and His Majesty King
Magenta has shown his energy and ability in the battle-field.
When we read of the blind fury and frantic scenes which have
marked the change of Government, and when we see how the little
majority of ten has gone up to sixty-eight, nothing succeeding
like success, we feel a profound contempt for our ancestors and'their
cautious, cowardly, deliberate method of transferring authority at
the Revolution. The Assembly has gone more bravely into action,
and we only hope that its work will last as long as that of our
ancestors, with their slavish adherence to precedent, and then*
exaction of Royal guarantees. Vive le Roi Magenta !
An Intoxicating Liquor.
Mr. Walter Burton, lately an Officer of Her Majesty’s Customs,
states, in a letter to the Times, that the average strength of Sherry,
as imported and passed into consumption, is not less than from
thirty-seven to fifty per cent, of proof spirit. So spirituous a liquor
as this should be called, not Sherry, but Sherry-brandy.
Warning.
Excepting British Lions, it is rare
To find the “ Lion ” (fells) “ playing fair.”
Jokers on Names, your noddles will lack plaster
If you send jokes about the new Post-Master.