Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, CompleteVarious
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
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English wit and humor -- Periodicals
A woman attacks her husband. BRITONS, STRIKE HOME.
A fellow named Peel, who has been for many years in the habit of
exhibiting as a quack-doctor, next applied for liberty to vend his
nostrums at the fair. On being questioned as to his qualifications, he
shook his head gravely, and, without uttering a word, placed the
following card in the hands of Punch.
TO THE GULLIBLE PUBLIC. SIR RHUBARB PILL, M.D. and L.S.D. Professor of
Political Chemistry and Conservative Medicine to the
CARLTON CLUB; PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO THE KING OF HANOVER!!! Inventor
of the Peoples Patent Sliding Stomach-pump;of the Poor Mans anti-
Breakfast and Dinner Waist-belt;and of the new Royal extract of
Toryism, as prescribed for, and lately swallowed by,
THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGE IN THESE DOMINIONS. Sir Rhubarb begs
further to state, that he practises national tooth-drawing and bleeding
to an unlimited extent; and undertakes to cure the consumption of bread
without the use of
A FIXED PLASTER. N.B.No connexion with the corn doctor who recently
vacated the concern now occupied by Sir R.P.
Hours of attendance, from ten till four each day, at his establishment,
Downing-street.A private entrance for M.P.s round the corner.
Ben DIsraeli, the proprietor of the Learned Pig, applied for permission
to exhibit his animal at the fair. A license was unhesitatingly granted
by his lordship, who rightly considered that the exhibition of the
extraordinary talents of the pig and its master, would do much to
promote a taste for polite literature amongst the Smithneld pennyboys.
A poor old man, who called himself Sir Francis Burdett, applied for a
license to exhibit his wonderful Dissolving Views. The most remarkable
of which wereThe Hustings in Covent-gardenchanging to Rouss dinner
in Drury-laneand The Patriot in the Towerchanging to the Renegade in
the Carlton. It appeared that the applicant was, at one time, in a
respectable business, and kept The Old Glory, a favourite public-house
in Westminster, but, falling into bad company, he lost his custom and
his character, and was reduced to his present miserable occupation.
Punch, in pity for the wretched petitioner, and fully convinced that his
childish tricks were perfectly harmless, granted him a license to
exhibit.
Licenses were also granted to the following persons in the course of the
day:
Sir E.L. Bulwer, to exhibit his own portrait, in the character of
Alcibiades, painted by himself.
Doctor Bowring, to exhibit six Tartarian chiefs, caught in the vicinity
of the Seven Dials, with songs, translated from the original Irish
Calmuc, by the Doctor.
Emerson Tennent, to exhibit his wonderful Cosmorama, or views of
anywhere and everywhere; in which the striking features of Ireland,
Greece, Belgium, and Whitechapel will be so happily confounded, that the
spectator may imagine he beholds any or all of these places at a single
glance.
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