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August 1, 1874
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August 1, 1874.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
47
LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.
TH£'MOST-LeARK£D-PRINCt-or- HIS-TlMfW^opfst, Se
name is not to be
disclosed until tbe
year 1900, has sig-
nified his intention
of offering pre-
miums of £500,
£250, and £100,
for the three best
essays on “Black
Beetles.” The Pre-
sident of the Ento-
mological Society,
the Superintendent
of Natural History
in the British
Museum, and the
Regius Professor
of Domestic Eco-
nomy in the College
of St. Bees, will be
invited to act as
judges.
The Exhibition
of the Royal Aca-
demy, now drawing
to a close, has been one of the most successful on record. The number of
sticks, umbrellas, and parasols, temporarily confiscated at the entrance,
has exceeded the most sanguine calculations of the Council; and, at one
time, it. seemed doubtful whether the pieces of string used for tying on the
identifying numbers would last out to the end of the season. The Academy
have not abandoned all hope of devising some readier method of attaching these
labels, before the recurrence of their next centenary.
A voluminous work on the childhood, early married life, and personal
correspondence of the author of the Iliad, Odyssey, and
Battle of the Frogs and Mice, from the pen of a dis-
tinguished ex-Premier, may be looked for among the
novelties of the next publishing season.
A game, at Polo between the late and the present
Ministry, in Westminster Hall, is expected to attract
an immense assemblage of spectators from every quarter
of the globe. The Whips on both sides are now engaged
in completing the preliminary arrangements.
The Comet has finally disappeared from these latitudes
and longitudes. The most careful investigation with
the stethoscope failed to discover any traces of indiges-
tion in its nucleus. The Comet hopes to take part in
the Transit of Venus. Due notice will be given of its
next appearance in our inclement skies.
The decoration of the interior of St. Paul’s with the
prismatic colours heightened with ultramarine and
picked out with gold and silver leaf, relieved by fili-
gree work and ornamentation of arabesques and glass
mosaics in the spandrils, is postponed for the present.
The majority of the Dean and Chapter will spend the
vacation together at the sea-side, drawing plans on the
sands, and gathering chromatic hints from the sunsets.
Converse and Contrary.
In the Dry Measure of the Tutor's Assistant we learn
that four pecks make one bushel or strike. Conversely,
of course, one bushel or strike makes four pecks.
The Strike of the Agricultural Labourers, however, is
quite another thing. That Strike, on the contrary,
makes not any pecks and no bushel at all.
Motto foe a Tomb-Stonemason’s Yaed.—“ Si Monu-
mentum requiris, circumspice."
CABINET MANIFESTATIONS.
A Newspapeb, in a notice of some unaccountable conjuring by a
Lady alleged by Spiritualists, but not by herself, to be a Medium,
says :—
“ Mysterious Cabinet- Manifestations have been for some time creating
much sensation, but the performance by Miss Fay eclipses everything we
ever heard of.”
Miss Fay’s mysterious Cabinet Manifestations consist in various
acts performed in a Cabinet without the aid of machinery, and
apparently without that of a confederate, in the course of a few
seconds, during which she remains bound hand and foot, neck and
heels, with cords and thread tied in tight knots and sealed. These
Cabinet Manifestations are certainly very mysterious; but much
less so than those commonly enough exhibited by Cabinet Ministers.
There is a Right Honourable Gentleman in Downing Street up to
all manner of tricks of this description ; and we would back him to
produce a whole staff of gentlemen capable of writing official letters,
diplomatic notes, and other documents, in a style which Miss Fay
could never approach, everyone of those “mediums” being all the
while tied up in the closest bonds of sealing-wax and red tape.
A REGAL EXAMPLE.
GREATNESS IN DECLINE.
Oxfoed, 24th July, 1874.
Deae See,
Imagine how refreshing to our flat and flabby vacation
spirits must have been the announcement posted here yesterday: —
u Post-Office Telegraphs.
“Vice Chancellor Malins to-day refused to grant a wiit of Habeas
Corpus to enlaege the Claimant now undergoing his term of imprisonment.”
May I ask you, Sir, who has been trying to undo the good work of
keeping this man down ? We have heard from time to time that his
weight was diminishing, and hoped that there would soon be so little
left of him that it would not be worth noticing; but it appears that
somebody is actually demanding his body, not for restoration only,
but actual enlargement.
The few men left here now are speculating as to whether the ap-
plicant is the Doctor or a Showman. Please settle the matter for us
at once, as we wish to go to sleep again,
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
Doemouse.
eehaps the next
Royal Academy Ex-
hibition will con-
tain a picture,
entitled “ Civic
Splendour enter-
taining Literature
and Art." Civic
Splendour to be
embodied in a
portrait of the pre-
sent Loed Mayoe.
The painter can, if
he please, put in
Sweetness and
Light as supporters.
The Loed Mayoe,
by the brilliant
reception he has
given to the Stars
of Arts and Let-
ters, has earned
translation beyond
Bottom's — from
Lush to Lux.
THE RAILWAY PASSENGER’S DUTIES.
To make as few and as short journeys as possible.
To insure his life on every occasion.
To satisfy himself before he starts that the line by which he is
going to travel is managed on the common-sense system, and that
the staff are neither overworked nor underpaid.
To shun excursion trains and express trains.
To avoid luggage.
Never to disobey the injunctions of the Directors by giving fees
to their servants.
To be cautious as to what he eats and drinks in the Refreshment
Rooms.
To pounce upon and expose in the public prints every instance of
carelessness, recklessness, delay, and unpunctuality.
Not to expend more than he can help on his ticket.
To master Bradshaw.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
47
LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.
TH£'MOST-LeARK£D-PRINCt-or- HIS-TlMfW^opfst, Se
name is not to be
disclosed until tbe
year 1900, has sig-
nified his intention
of offering pre-
miums of £500,
£250, and £100,
for the three best
essays on “Black
Beetles.” The Pre-
sident of the Ento-
mological Society,
the Superintendent
of Natural History
in the British
Museum, and the
Regius Professor
of Domestic Eco-
nomy in the College
of St. Bees, will be
invited to act as
judges.
The Exhibition
of the Royal Aca-
demy, now drawing
to a close, has been one of the most successful on record. The number of
sticks, umbrellas, and parasols, temporarily confiscated at the entrance,
has exceeded the most sanguine calculations of the Council; and, at one
time, it. seemed doubtful whether the pieces of string used for tying on the
identifying numbers would last out to the end of the season. The Academy
have not abandoned all hope of devising some readier method of attaching these
labels, before the recurrence of their next centenary.
A voluminous work on the childhood, early married life, and personal
correspondence of the author of the Iliad, Odyssey, and
Battle of the Frogs and Mice, from the pen of a dis-
tinguished ex-Premier, may be looked for among the
novelties of the next publishing season.
A game, at Polo between the late and the present
Ministry, in Westminster Hall, is expected to attract
an immense assemblage of spectators from every quarter
of the globe. The Whips on both sides are now engaged
in completing the preliminary arrangements.
The Comet has finally disappeared from these latitudes
and longitudes. The most careful investigation with
the stethoscope failed to discover any traces of indiges-
tion in its nucleus. The Comet hopes to take part in
the Transit of Venus. Due notice will be given of its
next appearance in our inclement skies.
The decoration of the interior of St. Paul’s with the
prismatic colours heightened with ultramarine and
picked out with gold and silver leaf, relieved by fili-
gree work and ornamentation of arabesques and glass
mosaics in the spandrils, is postponed for the present.
The majority of the Dean and Chapter will spend the
vacation together at the sea-side, drawing plans on the
sands, and gathering chromatic hints from the sunsets.
Converse and Contrary.
In the Dry Measure of the Tutor's Assistant we learn
that four pecks make one bushel or strike. Conversely,
of course, one bushel or strike makes four pecks.
The Strike of the Agricultural Labourers, however, is
quite another thing. That Strike, on the contrary,
makes not any pecks and no bushel at all.
Motto foe a Tomb-Stonemason’s Yaed.—“ Si Monu-
mentum requiris, circumspice."
CABINET MANIFESTATIONS.
A Newspapeb, in a notice of some unaccountable conjuring by a
Lady alleged by Spiritualists, but not by herself, to be a Medium,
says :—
“ Mysterious Cabinet- Manifestations have been for some time creating
much sensation, but the performance by Miss Fay eclipses everything we
ever heard of.”
Miss Fay’s mysterious Cabinet Manifestations consist in various
acts performed in a Cabinet without the aid of machinery, and
apparently without that of a confederate, in the course of a few
seconds, during which she remains bound hand and foot, neck and
heels, with cords and thread tied in tight knots and sealed. These
Cabinet Manifestations are certainly very mysterious; but much
less so than those commonly enough exhibited by Cabinet Ministers.
There is a Right Honourable Gentleman in Downing Street up to
all manner of tricks of this description ; and we would back him to
produce a whole staff of gentlemen capable of writing official letters,
diplomatic notes, and other documents, in a style which Miss Fay
could never approach, everyone of those “mediums” being all the
while tied up in the closest bonds of sealing-wax and red tape.
A REGAL EXAMPLE.
GREATNESS IN DECLINE.
Oxfoed, 24th July, 1874.
Deae See,
Imagine how refreshing to our flat and flabby vacation
spirits must have been the announcement posted here yesterday: —
u Post-Office Telegraphs.
“Vice Chancellor Malins to-day refused to grant a wiit of Habeas
Corpus to enlaege the Claimant now undergoing his term of imprisonment.”
May I ask you, Sir, who has been trying to undo the good work of
keeping this man down ? We have heard from time to time that his
weight was diminishing, and hoped that there would soon be so little
left of him that it would not be worth noticing; but it appears that
somebody is actually demanding his body, not for restoration only,
but actual enlargement.
The few men left here now are speculating as to whether the ap-
plicant is the Doctor or a Showman. Please settle the matter for us
at once, as we wish to go to sleep again,
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
Doemouse.
eehaps the next
Royal Academy Ex-
hibition will con-
tain a picture,
entitled “ Civic
Splendour enter-
taining Literature
and Art." Civic
Splendour to be
embodied in a
portrait of the pre-
sent Loed Mayoe.
The painter can, if
he please, put in
Sweetness and
Light as supporters.
The Loed Mayoe,
by the brilliant
reception he has
given to the Stars
of Arts and Let-
ters, has earned
translation beyond
Bottom's — from
Lush to Lux.
THE RAILWAY PASSENGER’S DUTIES.
To make as few and as short journeys as possible.
To insure his life on every occasion.
To satisfy himself before he starts that the line by which he is
going to travel is managed on the common-sense system, and that
the staff are neither overworked nor underpaid.
To shun excursion trains and express trains.
To avoid luggage.
Never to disobey the injunctions of the Directors by giving fees
to their servants.
To be cautious as to what he eats and drinks in the Refreshment
Rooms.
To pounce upon and expose in the public prints every instance of
carelessness, recklessness, delay, and unpunctuality.
Not to expend more than he can help on his ticket.
To master Bradshaw.