Identifier: punchv40lemo (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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. Our rum ordinances is not a phrase by which a journalist shouldindicate the laws of his island, however much he may deprecate theedicts in question. Our singular legislation, or our incongruousstatutes, or our eccentric decrees would have been worthier of adelicate writer. We are very happy to admit the word Rum fromTrinidad as a Noun, and also to admit, into our cellar as much of thecelebrated article itself as we can; but we decline to admit Rum as anAdjective, and West Indian friends at a distance will please accept allthese notifications. TJn (Euf is as Good as a Feast. Why should a classical scholar never attempt to count eggs morethan one at a time ? Because he would be sure to count them ova and ova.—(Attributedto Bernal Oseorne, late of Dover and the Admiralty.) A SCOTCHMAN S* TRIUMPH. When are the shares of a company like the Emperor of ChinasSummer Palace near Pekin ?—When thev are a looted. * Sir Archibald Alison-. 42 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (January 26, 1861.
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THE NEW LADY GODIVA. FOREIGN TRAPS FOR ENGLISH FLATS. Fools and flats read the newspapers as well as other people,often snch advertisements as this:— Else we should not see so A Large. FORTUNE may be realised for ONE POUND only.—For particulars apply toMr. , Banker, of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, or letters addressed to him, London. Now, every one except the fools and flats aforesaid knows well enough1! what sort oftrap this lure is meant to bait. But because only the fools and flats are likely to be caughtby it, we do not think we ought to tolerate its presence in our press. Lotteries are for-bidden by the English law, and the law, to be consistent, should put a stop to the announce-ment of them. Until this be done, however, we hold the editors of newspapers responsiblefor all the gambling that ensues, in consequence of the advertisements to fools which theyadmit. W e have as a rule, we own, small sympathy with our flats; but we must say thatwe hate to see them duped by foreign knave

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