The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-03
HASTINGS OF PUNCH.

pCi vi "ec" 10 caiicu Fee1nB tlelr |
Feet" and represents Mama Russell and |
Mama Gladstone teaching their infants
to walk. One says: "Amberly-Pam-
berly mustn't go too fast" The other,
Gladstone, says: Step out, my child,
I'll take care you don't fall" 1t is the
best thing old Punch has done in many
week. He has also a prosy article on
the Ministerial Baby Show, apropos of
the infants training. The other cuts are
not remarkable.
Here are few jibes:
GLADSTONE AND son AT CHESTER.
..r- Electors, this is my son Bill,
Your humble servant If you will.
Him your apprentice let mebind;
To be Statesman, Bills designed: 3'I -'
I'd have him learn his trade right through 81
Serving ms member of your Borough.
take the Business of the Nation Ir.
To be regular vocation, .r. ..
That study needs, with view to knowing,
As much as any other going,
One foot and the same place on
The would-be Minister and Mason Y
You, therefore, to besecch venture,
That you will grant him his ndenture.
think know the young man, rather,
And, though say't who am his father, .
OF trusting him repeuted never.
SO then, hooray, my Son, forever.
THESCENTER OF ATTRA CTIoN.-R
mePs vaporizer.
Pointedly asks the London Review,
"What is the Cry of the Great Liberal
?n-Peccavi.
PoPULAR] SAYINGs.-"I won't be a
second" as Gladiateur said to his Jock
ey on the Derby Day. se
AN ELEGANT ExTRAcT.-"M. -
ma eXtrait les cors avec succes.-Lo,tis
Napoleon Imp. Franc. .4.e= 10.
AN AsIDE.-B Beware of Disraeli when
he talks of Lateral Reform. He wants
to get into office by Sidewind.
Politics AND ART.-It is remarkable
that in view of the approaching General
Election, no eminent Photographer has
put himself forward with proposal to
represent the people.
POLITICAL EcoNoMY.-The M. P. fol
Peterborough 1--WE don't mean Rome
oh, dear no! quite the reverse) seems tc
| know the whalley of truth, for he ap'
pears to be very sparing of that.
LEAVE BAD ENOUGH ALoNE-(TC
PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON, my
DEAR SIR: Because Wilkes Booth MUIR
dered Abraham Lincoln, that is no rea-
son why you should murder Jefferson
Davis. Believe me, although no Iron
clad, your trusty Monitor, Punch.
WARNINe TO LITERARY MEN.--A
young friend of ours who possessed sui
! ficient creative power to make book OF
the last Derby Day--and lost consider
| able amount of money on the transaction
lis now trying to build reputation a
the author of his own ruin. -e
THE LATEST FROM THE Doc SHOW
The Islington people who object to ca
| nine exhibitions admit that what carr
be cured must be endured. But the.
allege, with reference to the Show, tina
no one can be so deaf to reason as to say
there isn't any yelp for that. iai-
'"DYE NOT, FOND MANOR WOMAN
EITHER Among otherquack nostrums
we notice the announcement of a "vege'
tablet Hair-dye, for imparting to the
head the fashionable golden hue
Well, as this so called "golden hue" il
reality is red, vegetable dye may b
just the very thing to make the hair
little radish-we beg pardon for bat
spelling, we mean a little reddish
| Strange the freaks of fashion Ladie
often have been noticed wearing artifi
cial roses in their hair, and now it seem
they try to beautify themselves by wear
ing artificial carrots in it. ...,
. THE AFRICAN CARTE. s.
ARA Bumper Of Be'yandy fill, fHJor me-
A hump of a drom'dary grill, grill for me-
Flay the neetest that flies DER the plain;
And bring me joint Of cold camel for tea,
Which I'll cut, and, if nice, come again.
Then for supper just broil me slice Y wild boar,
With tger-steak tender and juicy;
Aud one Antelope kidney to follow-no more,
For you know Im no glutton, my Lucyl
be sure that for breakfast bustard you roast,
Pick the biggest the poultrer may bring:
Or an ostrich served whole, la woodcock, on toast
IT'S tit-bit that's fit for king.
Then contenod I'll wait until noon, when for lunch
Let Saint of zebra just foal'd be,
And bone ofbroed porcupine crispy FIJI crunch
With some snakes eggs, delicious when mouidy'
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How a Woman Writes about Men and