London Charivari Volume 46-47 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...one other qualities, with the highest reference. Music, cheerfulness and French, a good knowledge of housekeeping, and a thorough taste in dress, what can man want more in wife, if he be invalid or elderly P What her "thousand and one other qualities" may be, whether good, bad or indifferent, he need surely not inquire. But what if this Scheherazade be given to curtain-lecturing, and Keep him awake by the narration of her qualities for a thousand and one nights? Well, bowstringing in England is not yet allowed by law j but Sir J. P. Wilde is ready to give sufferers relief. Clearly the lady wants to catch a husband; but who of all her references will say howshe will treat him, after he is caught P Useful Knowledge.--Brimstone. Any stone found on the edge of an artificial pond is Brim-stone. Another For Banting.--" Small by degrees and beautifully less." BLOW IT, BILL WE CAN'T BE EXPECTED TO FIGHT A LOT 0' LUBBERLY SWABS LIKE HIM. WE 'LL KICK 'EM, IF THAT'LL DO." PUNCH'S NOTES AND QUERIES: A) SHAMELESS PIRACY UPON OUR HONOURED AND INESTIMABLE FRIEND N-. Amj Curious Legal Custom.--Cam any of your readers inform me whether the following custom obtains in any other place than Little Tiddleywinks. When a person owes money to another, and will not pay, the latter consults an attorney, who sends the former what is called A Lawyer's Letter." It is not an amiable practice, and I should be glad to hear that it is local only. bnTuir.vi.osrs. Quaint Saying.--What is the origin of the phrase "Sat upon," as applied to a discomfited person? I hare sometimes thought that it may come from satis (enough), but I have chiefly heard it from turf men, military officers, and others seldom rightly suspected of classical...