Identifier: punchv50lemo (find matches)
Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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sum, to be named by the Clerk ashis perquisite, for the last. If our kind friends in front will only reward our endeavours to please,we can anticipate nothing but—happiness for the future of a Paperwhich adapts itself so exactly to our wants, our wishes, and our WestEnd. And so we bid you heartily farewell. A Dangerous Companion. Among other scientific novelties of mechanism, we see advertised,just now, a patent self-acting corkscrew. This must be, no doubt,a vastly useful article, but we fancy at the same time that it must beslightly dangerous. If a self-acting corkscrew were admitted to ourwine-cellar, there is no knowing what a quantity of corks would beheard popping. Conceive the horror and dismay of a connoisseur inport at finding his self-acting corkscrew hard at work, and drawing allthe corks of his famous thirty-four, and still more precious twenty!How crusty he would look at seeing such a waste of all his fine oldcrusted! April 21, 1866.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 163
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HUNTING IDIOT, RETURNING FROM THE CHACE, PROPOSES TO CHAFF THAT ARTIST FELLER.Huntsman, What ll ter Take me for, Govnour ? Painter (without the slightest hesitation). A Snob ! AN OCCUPATION POR GRAND JURORS. Mr. Punch has very great pleasure in making the subjoined extractfrom the law report of last weeks proceedings in the Central CriminalCourt:— THE CASE OF MR. FERGUSON. The Grand Jury, in the course of the day, ignored the Bill that was preferredagainst Mr. Ferguson for wounding the policeman at Sydenham, and they at thesame time expressed their opinion that in all cases where policemen in plain clotheswere employed, some unmistakeable means should be adopted, either by a staff ora warrant card, to show who they were, with a view to prevent the recurrence of asimilar proceeding to the present. Averse as Mr. Punch is to hazarding any remark that may tend toperpetuate a grievous bore to which housekeepers in the neighbourhoodof London are liable, and subjected, nine hundred and nin

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