DOI issue:
January 17, 1874
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[January 17, 1874.
SENSIBLE MTTNIEICENCE.
The British Army, in general, cannot be
considered to be overpaid, and it must be
confessed that a very moderate remunera-
tion is received in proportion to the services
rendered by that particular division of our
Forces, which remains on constant skir-
mishing duty in the streets and about our
premises, ever on the watch, and ready to
act immediately against our domestic
enemies, the dangerous classes. No reason-
able person, who has a due regard for the
security of his goods and chattels, and the
safety of his skin, can think the amount
of pay assigned to the National Property
and Life Guards (Blue) excessive. Be it,
then, suggested that gentlemen and ladies
in the giving vein, and blessed with the
means of free effusion from that vessel,
might do well, at the giving season of the
year especially, to follow the example thus
recorded in the Hampshire Independent —
“A New Teak’s Gift for the Police.—
Mrs. General Rogers, of Highfield, has gene-
rously forwarded a sum of £10 to Mr. Superin-
tendent Breary, for division among the mem-
bers of the borough police force, for a New Year's
gift.”
Too generally the only acknowledgment
accorded, at the festive season of the year,
to our gallant defenders from thieves and
ruffians, consists in the complimentary sort
of Christmas-box which they are wont to
be treated with on Boxing-night and there-
after nightly for some weeks, in being ridi-
culed, for the diversion of the juvenile
British Public, and the pickpockets, on
the stage. At Southampton, however, the
“Bobbies” have, this year, obtained a
more suitable recognition, in the shape of
certain “bob,” the dividend of the ten
pounds given to be distributed among them
by Mrs. Rogers.
CANONICAL CUSTOMS.
In connection with the approaching
marriage of the Dueh oe Edinburgh,
according to the Greek rite, it has been
stated that, in the Greek Church, a monk,
however high his position, is not allowed to
perform the matrimonial service. That
rite can be administered only by a married
priest. Dr. Johnson once improvised a
famous parody on the inconsiderately ad-
mired line:—
“ Who rules o’er freemen should himself be free.”
Undoubtedly, at that rate,—
“ Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.”
A REGULAR BRITON.
“ It was Mr. Robinson gave me that Boat, Aunty !”
“ And did you Kiss him for it, Arthur?”
“ No, indeed! As if Men were in the Habit of Kissing each other. Aunty !”
VIVISECTION AND CHEEK.
In a letter in the Times, on “ Vivisection,” the following passage is quoted from a
popular work on physiology :—
“ These animals (rabbits) may be made to blush artificially. If, in a rabbit, the sympathetic nerve
which sends branches to the vessels of the head is cut, the ear of the rabbit ... at once blushes.”
A physiologist who cuts, in a live rabbit, the sympathetic nerve which sends branches
to the vessels of the head, cannot, one thinks, be more than very partially endowed with the
faculty to which that nerve is subservient. At least, he must be one of those whom, as
“wanting sensibility,” the poet “ would not enter on ” his “ list of friends.” Nothing could
make him blush except dividing the sympathetic nerve which sends branches to the vessels
of his own head; but, if that operation were performed, he, too, would perhaps at once
blush up to the ears.
And then the Greek Church speaks
reason in virtually declaring that:—
“ Who marries others must himself be married.”
Our own Established Church knows of
no such canon ; makes a reverend bachelor
as eligible as a married clergyman to
solemnise matrimony. Yet, when a
“marriage in high life” occurs, it is
commonly performed by a Bishop, assisted
by another ecclesiastic, as though the
nuptial knot could not be tied tight enough
for the superior classes by a single, man.
This view of the matter may not be without
significance to some minds, with regard to
the proposal of union between the Greek
and Anglican Churches.
A Regular Do Do.—The New Dodo.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[January 17, 1874.
SENSIBLE MTTNIEICENCE.
The British Army, in general, cannot be
considered to be overpaid, and it must be
confessed that a very moderate remunera-
tion is received in proportion to the services
rendered by that particular division of our
Forces, which remains on constant skir-
mishing duty in the streets and about our
premises, ever on the watch, and ready to
act immediately against our domestic
enemies, the dangerous classes. No reason-
able person, who has a due regard for the
security of his goods and chattels, and the
safety of his skin, can think the amount
of pay assigned to the National Property
and Life Guards (Blue) excessive. Be it,
then, suggested that gentlemen and ladies
in the giving vein, and blessed with the
means of free effusion from that vessel,
might do well, at the giving season of the
year especially, to follow the example thus
recorded in the Hampshire Independent —
“A New Teak’s Gift for the Police.—
Mrs. General Rogers, of Highfield, has gene-
rously forwarded a sum of £10 to Mr. Superin-
tendent Breary, for division among the mem-
bers of the borough police force, for a New Year's
gift.”
Too generally the only acknowledgment
accorded, at the festive season of the year,
to our gallant defenders from thieves and
ruffians, consists in the complimentary sort
of Christmas-box which they are wont to
be treated with on Boxing-night and there-
after nightly for some weeks, in being ridi-
culed, for the diversion of the juvenile
British Public, and the pickpockets, on
the stage. At Southampton, however, the
“Bobbies” have, this year, obtained a
more suitable recognition, in the shape of
certain “bob,” the dividend of the ten
pounds given to be distributed among them
by Mrs. Rogers.
CANONICAL CUSTOMS.
In connection with the approaching
marriage of the Dueh oe Edinburgh,
according to the Greek rite, it has been
stated that, in the Greek Church, a monk,
however high his position, is not allowed to
perform the matrimonial service. That
rite can be administered only by a married
priest. Dr. Johnson once improvised a
famous parody on the inconsiderately ad-
mired line:—
“ Who rules o’er freemen should himself be free.”
Undoubtedly, at that rate,—
“ Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.”
A REGULAR BRITON.
“ It was Mr. Robinson gave me that Boat, Aunty !”
“ And did you Kiss him for it, Arthur?”
“ No, indeed! As if Men were in the Habit of Kissing each other. Aunty !”
VIVISECTION AND CHEEK.
In a letter in the Times, on “ Vivisection,” the following passage is quoted from a
popular work on physiology :—
“ These animals (rabbits) may be made to blush artificially. If, in a rabbit, the sympathetic nerve
which sends branches to the vessels of the head is cut, the ear of the rabbit ... at once blushes.”
A physiologist who cuts, in a live rabbit, the sympathetic nerve which sends branches
to the vessels of the head, cannot, one thinks, be more than very partially endowed with the
faculty to which that nerve is subservient. At least, he must be one of those whom, as
“wanting sensibility,” the poet “ would not enter on ” his “ list of friends.” Nothing could
make him blush except dividing the sympathetic nerve which sends branches to the vessels
of his own head; but, if that operation were performed, he, too, would perhaps at once
blush up to the ears.
And then the Greek Church speaks
reason in virtually declaring that:—
“ Who marries others must himself be married.”
Our own Established Church knows of
no such canon ; makes a reverend bachelor
as eligible as a married clergyman to
solemnise matrimony. Yet, when a
“marriage in high life” occurs, it is
commonly performed by a Bishop, assisted
by another ecclesiastic, as though the
nuptial knot could not be tied tight enough
for the superior classes by a single, man.
This view of the matter may not be without
significance to some minds, with regard to
the proposal of union between the Greek
and Anglican Churches.
A Regular Do Do.—The New Dodo.