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March 27, 1880
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MORE LIGHT!
Apropos of the present perverse stoppage of Park Lane for wood
paving, when the most appropriate blocks would seem to be the
heads that directed such a work at such a time, the Daily News
sensibly remarks:—
“There is plenty of work by which London might be improved, and
Londoners at this season not tormented. Certain vestries have adopted an
admirable system of indicating street nomenclature on the lamps at the
corners of thoroughfares. The idea is so good, the cost so moderate, and the
result so satisfactory, that of course the other vestries have held back, and
possibly the originators may be induced to cancel the benefit they have offered
the public. In the meantime the Paris authorities, following the example
of Brussels and Antwerp, have ornamented the street corners of a capital not
half so wealthy or so busy as our own with conspicuous clock -dials. But in
London—where time is money—Hamilton Place is blocked, and Park Lane
a cul de sac."
Punch has been hammering at the urgency and practicability
of this form of light literature—street-lettering on street-lamps—
for many a long day, and is ashamed that he has still to cry to the
deaf ears of the West-End Vestryman, “ Light, more light! ”
SAWBBATARIANISM AT DUNDEE.
The Land of Cakes lays claim to be likewise a Land of Logic, not
unduly; but the syllogistic faculties of Scotchmen are apt to fail
them in the consideration of any question relative to Sunday. It is
painfully evident that the Sawbbatarians have not arrived at a sane
view of the Tay Bridge accident.
“ On "Wednesday, by 15 votes to 13, the Dundee Presbytery adopted an
overture to the General Assembly acknowledging the hand of God in the
disaster, and asking the Assembly to devise means for removing temptations
to Sunday travelling and traffic. One speaker said he regarded the disaster
as a judgment of God upon mercantile trickery in building a bad bridge.”
From the division, however, we are glad to see that even in the
Dundee Presbytery a considerable minority declines to pronounce a
Sawbbatarian opinion upon a calamity which they have no warrant
whatsoever for supposing to have been occasioned by other than
natural causes. These, perhaps, were intended to be signified by
the speaker who represented the fall of the bridge as a supernatural
A7isitation upon mercantile trickery. LTnfortunately for this, view,
the parties responsible for trickery in building the bridge did not
happen to be travelling over it when it fell.
As for the Sawbbatarian majority, they can only7 be regarded as
an additional example of a crotchet about Sunday so national that
it may well be called the Scotch craze. This, when excited,
agitates its victim with such violence as to cause the clatter of a
loose slate in an upper storey otherwise sound; or, to put the
same fact in a different figure, causes a hum of the biggest bee that
every now and then buzzes in Sawney’s bonnet.
HINTS FOR A NEW AND ORIGINAL
DRAMATIC COLLEGE.
Chapter XI.
On the Platform are tastefully arranged various Property Eatables.
Enter the Lecturer, very quietly, by a side-door. ELe is dressed
in over-coat, muffler, and opera-hat, which he slowly and
thoughtfully removes, and appears in evening dress. Applause.
The Lecturer looks about, as if in search of something or somebody
smiles blandly, and then commences quietly—•
Well, Gentlemen—um—[rubs his chin meditatively, and regarding*
a perfect stranger in the third row of the class_ with a vague but
affable smile)—well—Gentlemen—I’ve come to give you a lecture—
(it suddenly occurs to him that this sounds too severe) oh, no, don t
be afraid ; I haven’t come to lecture you as if you all had been very
bad boys. Oh dear, no ! (Puts his hands behind him, throivs back
his head, opens his mouth and shuts his eyes, as if he ivere playing
the children's game of seeing what;Providence will. send him, but in
reality for a hearty guffaw at the absurdity of the idea, of their being
bad boys whom he has come to lectured) Oh dear, no ! (Shakes his
CHAEIVARI.
134
PUNCH,
THE
LONDON
[March 27, 1880.
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
Edwin. “ Dull Paper this morning, ain’t it, Angy?”
Angelina. “Yes! Rot a Soul one knows mentioned!—not even in the Deaths!”
THE LOST DERBY.
(By “ a Tarty that was Jockey'd.")
The Scion of a Distinguished Sire,
his Blood, Birth, and Breeding
seemed worthy of
A GREAT RACE,
and
his Stable Reputation
being backed by the Country,
he was thought capable of fulfilling
Many Eoreign Engagements,
but,
in a critical struggle,
he
Failed to keep pace with his Leader,
Dissented from ‘1 the Movement
of the Fleet,”
Bolted from the Right Course,
and has since, in consequence,
Changed Hands, mounted
Fresh Colours,
and again figures in quotations
as a likely Candidate for a Place,
but,
though Liberally supported,
his Radical want of Pluck
has for ever forfeited the confidence
of
“That Stout Old Tory Party,”
he Left in the Lurch.
Hills and Hollows.—About the
most disgraceful thing in London
(of many disgraceful things) — the
Paving of the Edgware Road.
All the Difference.
“The letter is apocryphal .... it it
too epigrammatic Lor an Oriental.”—Lord
Beaconsfield, House of Lords, March 16.
In a letter from Shere Ali
Epigrams show unreality:
In a letter from Disraeli
Do they prove its Disraelity ?
Apropos of the present perverse stoppage of Park Lane for wood
paving, when the most appropriate blocks would seem to be the
heads that directed such a work at such a time, the Daily News
sensibly remarks:—
“There is plenty of work by which London might be improved, and
Londoners at this season not tormented. Certain vestries have adopted an
admirable system of indicating street nomenclature on the lamps at the
corners of thoroughfares. The idea is so good, the cost so moderate, and the
result so satisfactory, that of course the other vestries have held back, and
possibly the originators may be induced to cancel the benefit they have offered
the public. In the meantime the Paris authorities, following the example
of Brussels and Antwerp, have ornamented the street corners of a capital not
half so wealthy or so busy as our own with conspicuous clock -dials. But in
London—where time is money—Hamilton Place is blocked, and Park Lane
a cul de sac."
Punch has been hammering at the urgency and practicability
of this form of light literature—street-lettering on street-lamps—
for many a long day, and is ashamed that he has still to cry to the
deaf ears of the West-End Vestryman, “ Light, more light! ”
SAWBBATARIANISM AT DUNDEE.
The Land of Cakes lays claim to be likewise a Land of Logic, not
unduly; but the syllogistic faculties of Scotchmen are apt to fail
them in the consideration of any question relative to Sunday. It is
painfully evident that the Sawbbatarians have not arrived at a sane
view of the Tay Bridge accident.
“ On "Wednesday, by 15 votes to 13, the Dundee Presbytery adopted an
overture to the General Assembly acknowledging the hand of God in the
disaster, and asking the Assembly to devise means for removing temptations
to Sunday travelling and traffic. One speaker said he regarded the disaster
as a judgment of God upon mercantile trickery in building a bad bridge.”
From the division, however, we are glad to see that even in the
Dundee Presbytery a considerable minority declines to pronounce a
Sawbbatarian opinion upon a calamity which they have no warrant
whatsoever for supposing to have been occasioned by other than
natural causes. These, perhaps, were intended to be signified by
the speaker who represented the fall of the bridge as a supernatural
A7isitation upon mercantile trickery. LTnfortunately for this, view,
the parties responsible for trickery in building the bridge did not
happen to be travelling over it when it fell.
As for the Sawbbatarian majority, they can only7 be regarded as
an additional example of a crotchet about Sunday so national that
it may well be called the Scotch craze. This, when excited,
agitates its victim with such violence as to cause the clatter of a
loose slate in an upper storey otherwise sound; or, to put the
same fact in a different figure, causes a hum of the biggest bee that
every now and then buzzes in Sawney’s bonnet.
HINTS FOR A NEW AND ORIGINAL
DRAMATIC COLLEGE.
Chapter XI.
On the Platform are tastefully arranged various Property Eatables.
Enter the Lecturer, very quietly, by a side-door. ELe is dressed
in over-coat, muffler, and opera-hat, which he slowly and
thoughtfully removes, and appears in evening dress. Applause.
The Lecturer looks about, as if in search of something or somebody
smiles blandly, and then commences quietly—•
Well, Gentlemen—um—[rubs his chin meditatively, and regarding*
a perfect stranger in the third row of the class_ with a vague but
affable smile)—well—Gentlemen—I’ve come to give you a lecture—
(it suddenly occurs to him that this sounds too severe) oh, no, don t
be afraid ; I haven’t come to lecture you as if you all had been very
bad boys. Oh dear, no ! (Puts his hands behind him, throivs back
his head, opens his mouth and shuts his eyes, as if he ivere playing
the children's game of seeing what;Providence will. send him, but in
reality for a hearty guffaw at the absurdity of the idea, of their being
bad boys whom he has come to lectured) Oh dear, no ! (Shakes his
CHAEIVARI.
134
PUNCH,
THE
LONDON
[March 27, 1880.
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
Edwin. “ Dull Paper this morning, ain’t it, Angy?”
Angelina. “Yes! Rot a Soul one knows mentioned!—not even in the Deaths!”
THE LOST DERBY.
(By “ a Tarty that was Jockey'd.")
The Scion of a Distinguished Sire,
his Blood, Birth, and Breeding
seemed worthy of
A GREAT RACE,
and
his Stable Reputation
being backed by the Country,
he was thought capable of fulfilling
Many Eoreign Engagements,
but,
in a critical struggle,
he
Failed to keep pace with his Leader,
Dissented from ‘1 the Movement
of the Fleet,”
Bolted from the Right Course,
and has since, in consequence,
Changed Hands, mounted
Fresh Colours,
and again figures in quotations
as a likely Candidate for a Place,
but,
though Liberally supported,
his Radical want of Pluck
has for ever forfeited the confidence
of
“That Stout Old Tory Party,”
he Left in the Lurch.
Hills and Hollows.—About the
most disgraceful thing in London
(of many disgraceful things) — the
Paving of the Edgware Road.
All the Difference.
“The letter is apocryphal .... it it
too epigrammatic Lor an Oriental.”—Lord
Beaconsfield, House of Lords, March 16.
In a letter from Shere Ali
Epigrams show unreality:
In a letter from Disraeli
Do they prove its Disraelity ?