Punch (71.1876)

July 8, 1876.]

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i though one or two of the Kings of England were inclined to be
"ALL (WAX) WORK AND NO PLAY/ &c. unsteady, and nothing would persuade Mr. Liston, in the costume

The annual pie-nie given by Messes. Tussaud to their company of P««/Pry to. stand erect, on his feet. Except, however for an
came off as usual at Weybridge on the 19th ult. The Press ma in- ™nted glassmess m their stare, mi fiJhgH dBT^^^t ^
f 4.x. 4.4.u j * *-i 7 ' -c t?'" drapery here and there, the casual visitor to the exhibition on the

iorm us that the company was made up of the employes of the lirm ; <. .y ,\ <. \ \ „„u fi„t- „^ni,r,„a,i f-

but Punch knows better. He sat for an hour the other day next to M<fing day would not.have ^^^.j^-
Old Cobbett, who told him, between his pinches of snuff, all about it. b"ef moment disturbed the fixity of the stars who daily and nightly

The fact is, that sitting or standing in the same position for a shme m tlie Laker Street Bazaar'
year, night and day, and listening to the vapid ejaculations of
country cousins and critical foreigners, has a deadening effect upon
the spirits even of waxworks : and a day in the country, once a
year, is not a day too much to freshen them up a little.

Three large vans conveyed the revellers, not to Weybridge, but
to Leatherhead, and thence to Box Hill.

Mr. Cobbett assured us that the party in his van got over their
usual stiffness very soon, and Mils. Manning turned out a most
amiable companion, informing the party that she had begun life as
Miss Edgeworth, and had only taken the name and dress of Man-
ning because Anne Boletn, who was going off, had parted with
her head rather than stay a year in the Chamber of Horrors.

A good deal of chaff (some said, bran) was dropped on the road,
and Fieschi, who had chosen a creaking van, was a good deal
twitted about his infernal machine. Marat declared it would have
been far better had they gone to Brighton for a dip ; but the Chiee
Justice hinting that he should have thought lie had had enough of
his bath in the Chamber of Horrors, Maeat resented the remark
as personal, and was with difficulty smoothed down by his old
comrade, Count de Loege.

The Claimant, who, during the ride, trod on everybody's corns, re-
membered well the day when he was Daniel Lambert. Now he had
more wax than ha'pence, and was looking forward to melting down
when his original, "the unhappy nobleman," returns from Dartmoor.

The Chiee Justice said he did not know that Aethub and the
Doctor were, coming in the same van with him, or he should have
gone by a different conveyance, though it were in company with the
Ladies of Henry the Eighth's Court. He had tried to persuade
Madame de Saint Amaeanthe to join them ; but she persistently
refused to wake, and he lelt her labouring under her usual difncidty
of breathing and general creakiness of the internal organs.

The employes of the Firm of Tussaud were much to be praised for
the. skill with which they got their Pic-nickers out of the vans on
their return, and re-distributed them in their regular positions;

THE SEVEN" "WONDERS OF THE SOCIAL WORLD.

1. A Box of Figs, or a Pottle of Strawberries, with the biggest at
the bottom.

2. A Railway Ouard or Porter who will decline to take a tip, on
the ground that all gratuities are rigidly forbidden by the bye-laws
of the Company.

3. An advertised Plain Cook, whose plainness prevents her having
any followers.

4. Your own Umbrella in its stand, after some good friend has
borrowed it.

5. A Keeper of a Lodging-house who, if you complain of fleas,
can refrain from a loud protest that you must have brought them
with you.

6. A Costermonger or Cabman who, defiant of street-chaff, has
the pluck to wear an eye-glass or a pair of spectacles.

7. A Young Man of the Period who never calls things "awful
baws," or talks about " the Governor."

Sentiment v. Science.

The Collective Wisdom, before passing the Vivisection Bill
as it came down from the Collective Sentiment, will perhaps assert
itself by attending to the Memorials of the Senate of the Uni-
versity of London, and of the General Medical Council, urging
"that the limitation of all experiments to registered places would
tend seriously to obstruct genuine scientific inquiry." A great
deal has been said lately on behalf of the "Endowment of Scientific
Research." Surely the majority of the representatives of a rational
people are not going to confirm without amending an enactment
which, unamended, will effect a hindrance of research in Physiology,
Medicine, and Surgery.

vol. lxxi.