Punch: Punch (96.1889)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[January 12, 1889.

MARIUS-SHAW AMIDST THE RUINS OF LONDON.

A Vision of a Possible Futube.

A vision—yes, but it should seem
A dream which is not all a dream.

Our firemen are no dreamers ;
But this may come if we ’re so rash
As stint them of support and cash,
And fire-escapes, and steamers.

Our Marius warns us in good time,
And not to heed him were a crime
For which the town would suffer.
The Citizen who would not aid
Shaw and his gallant Fire Brigade
Must be an arrant duffer.

Let every man read Shaw’s lteport;
’Twill give him knowledge of a sort
That wisdom will find well met.
London’s Palladium it must strike
The slowest wit is wondrous like
A Fireman’s brazen helmet.

And if the time should come, oh Cits !
When Shaw, another Marius, sits
’Midst London’s blackened cinders,
You will not dare to blame him much,
For it is really he who such
A consummation hinders.

We have before mentioned Dr. Mackenzie’s coming work,
.Tubal's Lyre, about which there are naturally many stories.
Jural’s Lyre was the biggest Lyre anywhere in ancient times.
Its notes were all false, it was such a Lyre. A fragment of
one of the principal songs we are enabled to give to the public,
though warning them that we have it straight from Jural’s
Lyre, and therefore the information must be taken cum
grano:—

SOLO.

Oh, had I Jubal’s Lyre,

Or Tubal’s big bassoon,

If either I could hire
Just for an afternoon,

I’d play such lively measures,
The neighbours all would cease

Their business or their pleasures,
And send for the police.

I have no coin to hire—

To neighbours ’tis a boon—
Our old friend Jubal’s Lyre,

Nor Tubal’s big bassoon.

The Sugar Syndicate appears to have collapsed. Is this because the
Promoters have been in want of a Lump Sum ?

Old Saw re-set for English Publishers of Christmas
Cards, &c.—“They manage these things much better in-
Germany.” ___

From Northern Latitudes.—The Colonel’s Fancy Dress
Ball at the Metropole, last Friday, was a grand affair. The
guests danced and supped at keep-it-up-all-night-rate.