Punch (74.1878)

198 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [Mat 4, 1878.

DUE APPRECIATION OF ARTISTIC MERIT.

"Tke Djctor has been, Harry, and be says there's nothing serious the matter with Cook, bjt that she reqtires
Port Wine. So i'm going to give her some of that wk got for Babv last year."

" G jod FTea.vens, Mary, don't give hpr that! Give her whatever remains of the "34 your Uncle, the Dean, lift
us ; ^,To then go on with the '47, you Know i "

WISE AND FOOLISH VIRGINS.

Ah, happy France !
Grave English, philosophic Germans, sneer,
At thee for shallow, frivolous, unwise,
And sun themselves in one another's eyes,
For height and depth of mind, fur vision clear.

Here's Germany, with scarce the strength to stand

Undi r the loids of past and promised wars,

Debts, quarrels, social feuds, religious jars,

And drill, drill, drill, through her land's breadth and length

And here is En eland arming to the teeth,
And to'War's Maelstrom drifting on and on—
A War that the is of two minds upon ;
Its cause a mist of wild words hid beneath.

"While France, her debts paid, healed her scars of fight,
Her Parties muzzled, if not merged in one,
Her feuds in Church and State bid to be done,
To her great Peace-Show doth the World invite —
Ah ! happy France !

Compensation.

" What great effects from little causes spring ! "

Lord Salisbury, accepting the Foreign Secretaryship, is forced to
resign his Chairmanship of Quarter Sessions for Middlesex.

Per contra. Lord Derbf, resigning the Foreign Secretaryship, is
enabled to resume his Chairmanship of Quarter Sesdons at Kirkdale.

The Liability op Married Men.—To bear the Liabilities of
Married Women.

THE ROMANCE IN RUSSIA.

The acquittal of Miss Vera Sassulitch of the attempt to kill
General Trepoff, whom she undoubtedly shot, is nearly, bat not
quite, a parallel case with that of the heroine immortali-ied, though
anonymously, for a similar act, in a British S >ng of the Sea. Only
fhe, when she "called for sword and pistol," whwh immediately
obeyed her summons, appears to have shot the perfidious object ot
her indignation, Billy Taylor, dead. Like our own " Capting " in
her case, the Russian Jury in that of Miss Sa-SSULITCH, more for-
tunate than Charlotte Corday—

" Werry much applauded her for wot she'd done."

But of course it was out of their power to promote her to the First
Lieutenancy of a Torpedo B rat, or any other modern analogue of
that redoubtable bomb-ketch, the " gallant Thunder."

Adaptatioa of an Old-fashioned Grace.

{Used by a weary " Hanging " Committee.)

Of subjects new, of subjects old—

Of pictures hot, of pictures cold—■

Of drawings tender, drawings rough—

Of all, thank heaven, we've had enough!

on punch's cartoon for april 27th.
Son of Erin. So that's an " Ayster " Egg, is it ? Btdad, it's not
a " Pace" Egg, anyhow.

One Busy Sovereign.—The Sultan, we hear, puts off all business,
declaring "t7 est trop occupe."