DOI issue:
Punch’s Almanack for 1852
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17041#0002
pumws almanack Fm sss;
HOUSEMAIDS REFUSING SERVICE IN BELGRAVIA, (THE BARRACKS BEING
REMOVED FROM KNIGHTSBRIDGE) YOUNG LADIES DO THE HOUSEWORK.
Lady Emily. " Now, dear, I wish you would be quick, and light the fires, and
help me to make the beds."
THE PIKE IS A VORACIOUS FISH, AND BITES VERY READILY IN THE
WINTER MONTHS."
Old Gentleman is very fond of fishing
REMARKABLE DATS.
First of January, 1801.—Union of England and Ireland, which have been disunited ever
since.
New Year's Day in China is remarkable for the Feast of Lanthorns, when it is lucky to
walk home from the temple with a candle still burning, the great point of the feast being
to avoid a blow-out.
The 14th of February, last year, was remarkable for being Valentine's Day; and the
first reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,—supposed to be the result of sympathy between
Valentine's Day and a dead letter.
Law Terms and Returns—There will be a great reduction in Law Terms; for in conse-
quence of the establishment of the County Courts, the law terms, which were formerly
very 'torbitant, will be comparatively moderate.
THE SEVEN WONDERS OP LONDON.
6. A statue that is an ornament to the
Metropolis.
7. A church where yon can get a seat in
a pew without paying a shilling for it.
To which historians have justly added an
eighth wonder—perhaps more wonderful than
all the other wonders put together, and that is—
8. The Punch-Office !! 1
1. A street that is not under repair.
2. A glass of pure milk.
3. A policeman who was found as soon as
he was wanted.
4. A fire-escape that ever came in time for
the fire.
5. An omnibus that wasn't going to the
same locality as the person hailing it.
Caution to Lawyers' Clerks.—Don't go on the stage, or have anything to do with
amateur theatricals. Attorneys are liable to a penalty of £100 for acting without having been
admitted.
more "definitions." | ON AND AFTER THE FIRST OF JANUARY THERE WILL BE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE
Husband.—A godfather for ; MANNERS OF CAB AND OMNIBUS-DRIVERS,
female grown children, who
gives them a name, and un-
dertakes to look after their
conduct.
Liberty.—An angel till we
gain her, and a woman after-
wards.
-
moral to giveks of
twelfth-cakes.
Buy and cut your cake ac-
cording to your company:
that is, enough for everybody,
and something left for to-
morrow.
how to begin the new
year.
Open the door with the sil-
ver key of Hope, that it may
close on the golden hinge of
Prosperity.
an easy berth.
Medical Assistants com-
plain that they are over-
worked and underpaid; and
yet their employers generally
dispense with their labour.
A Speculator's Apology.
—You can't make the pot boil
without bubbles.
The Pursuit of Art under
Difficulties. — Meeting a
Dun in the Octagon Room at
the Academy.
—A Box at the Adelphi, to
see Wright in anything.
How to Choosb Ropb.—If
you want a good serviceable
rope, the strongest you can
select is a rope ot Onions.
Thb Emblem of Fool-
haroikess. — Sheep's hsad
and pluck.
things to be remembered.
A hundred of coals is
eighty pounds.
A woman of thirty is two-
and-twenty.
An eightpenny cab-fare is
one-and-sixpence.
A butt of Sherry is often a
barrel of Marsala.
sklf-possession and pre-
sence of mind.
A thief, surprised in the
act of robbing a bank, is
asked what he is about;
and answers, " Only taking
notes !"
chaussubb fob man and
horse.
A Yankee in the Southern
States says, that the proper
shoemaker for a Nigger is
a blacksmith.
very curious mem.
In all the Exhibition Year
—in spite of all the French-
men there have been over—
in spite of our English no-
tions about the French—in
spite of our boasted hospi-
tality—there has not been
announced a single " Shower
of Frogs 1" And this is
hospitality I
important to punsters.
He who makes real jokes
is called a Wag; but he who
The Bbst Christmas-Box. i ga&l '^^^Sflg^S^^ ' IIIKH^^^^^^n^^I?? ^fflfflflf /§? makes only heavy attempts
at joking may be termed a
Wagon.
musical fact.
People are apt to complain
of the vile tunes that are
played about the streets by
Igrinding organs, and yet they
may all be said to be the
......+ , ^„ JA u ^ „v v^:^-^-.^., ^^.v,. music of Handle. r
HOUSEMAIDS REFUSING SERVICE IN BELGRAVIA, (THE BARRACKS BEING
REMOVED FROM KNIGHTSBRIDGE) YOUNG LADIES DO THE HOUSEWORK.
Lady Emily. " Now, dear, I wish you would be quick, and light the fires, and
help me to make the beds."
THE PIKE IS A VORACIOUS FISH, AND BITES VERY READILY IN THE
WINTER MONTHS."
Old Gentleman is very fond of fishing
REMARKABLE DATS.
First of January, 1801.—Union of England and Ireland, which have been disunited ever
since.
New Year's Day in China is remarkable for the Feast of Lanthorns, when it is lucky to
walk home from the temple with a candle still burning, the great point of the feast being
to avoid a blow-out.
The 14th of February, last year, was remarkable for being Valentine's Day; and the
first reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,—supposed to be the result of sympathy between
Valentine's Day and a dead letter.
Law Terms and Returns—There will be a great reduction in Law Terms; for in conse-
quence of the establishment of the County Courts, the law terms, which were formerly
very 'torbitant, will be comparatively moderate.
THE SEVEN WONDERS OP LONDON.
6. A statue that is an ornament to the
Metropolis.
7. A church where yon can get a seat in
a pew without paying a shilling for it.
To which historians have justly added an
eighth wonder—perhaps more wonderful than
all the other wonders put together, and that is—
8. The Punch-Office !! 1
1. A street that is not under repair.
2. A glass of pure milk.
3. A policeman who was found as soon as
he was wanted.
4. A fire-escape that ever came in time for
the fire.
5. An omnibus that wasn't going to the
same locality as the person hailing it.
Caution to Lawyers' Clerks.—Don't go on the stage, or have anything to do with
amateur theatricals. Attorneys are liable to a penalty of £100 for acting without having been
admitted.
more "definitions." | ON AND AFTER THE FIRST OF JANUARY THERE WILL BE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE
Husband.—A godfather for ; MANNERS OF CAB AND OMNIBUS-DRIVERS,
female grown children, who
gives them a name, and un-
dertakes to look after their
conduct.
Liberty.—An angel till we
gain her, and a woman after-
wards.
-
moral to giveks of
twelfth-cakes.
Buy and cut your cake ac-
cording to your company:
that is, enough for everybody,
and something left for to-
morrow.
how to begin the new
year.
Open the door with the sil-
ver key of Hope, that it may
close on the golden hinge of
Prosperity.
an easy berth.
Medical Assistants com-
plain that they are over-
worked and underpaid; and
yet their employers generally
dispense with their labour.
A Speculator's Apology.
—You can't make the pot boil
without bubbles.
The Pursuit of Art under
Difficulties. — Meeting a
Dun in the Octagon Room at
the Academy.
—A Box at the Adelphi, to
see Wright in anything.
How to Choosb Ropb.—If
you want a good serviceable
rope, the strongest you can
select is a rope ot Onions.
Thb Emblem of Fool-
haroikess. — Sheep's hsad
and pluck.
things to be remembered.
A hundred of coals is
eighty pounds.
A woman of thirty is two-
and-twenty.
An eightpenny cab-fare is
one-and-sixpence.
A butt of Sherry is often a
barrel of Marsala.
sklf-possession and pre-
sence of mind.
A thief, surprised in the
act of robbing a bank, is
asked what he is about;
and answers, " Only taking
notes !"
chaussubb fob man and
horse.
A Yankee in the Southern
States says, that the proper
shoemaker for a Nigger is
a blacksmith.
very curious mem.
In all the Exhibition Year
—in spite of all the French-
men there have been over—
in spite of our English no-
tions about the French—in
spite of our boasted hospi-
tality—there has not been
announced a single " Shower
of Frogs 1" And this is
hospitality I
important to punsters.
He who makes real jokes
is called a Wag; but he who
The Bbst Christmas-Box. i ga&l '^^^Sflg^S^^ ' IIIKH^^^^^^n^^I?? ^fflfflflf /§? makes only heavy attempts
at joking may be termed a
Wagon.
musical fact.
People are apt to complain
of the vile tunes that are
played about the streets by
Igrinding organs, and yet they
may all be said to be the
......+ , ^„ JA u ^ „v v^:^-^-.^., ^^.v,. music of Handle. r