PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 100. January 17, 1891. [Illustration: OUR SPORT AND ART EXHIBITION. DRAWING A BADGER.] * * * * * VOCES POPULI. AT THE REGENT STREET TUSSAUD'S. _BEFORE THE EFFIGY OF DR. KOCH, WHO IS REPRESENTED IN THE ACT OF EXAMINING A TEST-TUBE WITH THE EXPRESSION OF BLAND BLAMELESSNESS PECULIAR TO WAX MODELS._ _Well-informed Visitor_. That's Dr. KOCH, making his great discovery! [Illustration] _Unscientific V._ What did _he_ discover? _Well-inf. V._ Why, the Consumption Bacillus. He's got it in that bottle he's holding up. _Unsc. V._ And what's the good of it, now he _has_ discovered it? _Well-inf. V._ Good? Why, it's the thing that causes _consumption_, you know! _Unsc. V._ Then it's a pity he didn't leave it alone! _BEFORE A SCENE REPRESENTING "THE HOME LIFE AT SANDRINGHAM."_ _First Old Lady_ (_with Catalogue_). It says here that "the note the page is handing _may_ have come from Sir DIGHTON PROBYN, the Comptroller of the Royal Household" Fancy _that_! _Second Old Lady_. He's brought it in in his fingers. Now _that_'s a thing I never allow in _my_ house. I always tell SARAH to bring all letters, and even circulars, in on a tray! _BEFORE A SCENE REPRESENTING THE LATE FRED ARCHER, MOUNTED, ON ASCOT RACE-COURSE._ _A. Sportsman_. H'm--ARCHER, eh? Shouldn't have backed his mount in _that_ race! _BEFORE "THE LIBRARY AT HAWARDEN."_ _Gladstonian Enthusiast_ (_to Friend, who, with the perverse ingenuity of patrons of Wax-works, has been endeavouring to identify the Rev. JOHN WESLEY among the Cabinet in Downing Street_). Oh, never mind all that lot, BETSY; they're only the _Gover'ment_! Here's dear Mr. and Mrs. GLADSTONE in this next! See, he's lookin' for something in a drawer of his side-board--ain't that _natural_? And only look--a lot of people have been leaving Christmas cards on him (_a pretty and touching tribute of affection, which is eminently characteristic of a warm-hearted Public_). I wish I'd thought o' bringing one with me! _Her Friend_. So do I. We might send one 'ere by post--but it'll have to be a New Year Card now! _A Strict Old Lady_ (_before next group_). Who are these two? "Mr. 'ENERY IRVING, and Miss ELLEN TERRY in _Faust_," eh? No--I don't care to stop to see them--that's play-actin', that is--and I don't 'old with it nohow! What are these two parties supposed to be doin' of over here? What--Cardinal NEWMAN and Cardinal MANNING at the High Altar at the Oratory, Brompton! Come along, and don't encourage Popery by looking at such figures. I _did_ 'ear as they'd got Mrs. PEARCEY and the prambilator somewheres. I _should_ like to see that, now. IN THE CHILDREN'S GALLERY. _An Aunt_ (_who finds the excellent Catalogue a mine of useful information_). Look, BOBBY, dear (_reading_). "Here we have CONSTANTINE'S Cat, as seen in the '_Nights of Straparola_,' an Italian romancist, whose book was translated into French in the year 1585--"