Punch (1841) (14773914232) - Public domain book illustration

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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coursehe knows something about the word incidental, and that it is derivedfrom a Latin word meaning falling in, but this only increases theconfusion. Gentlemen who have been at a tavern have had the mis-fortune of falling in, when trying to pass ditches or canals, but at aTemperance tavern the requisite preparation can hardly have been gonethrough. And then the apposition of incidental with commercialis another mystification. We have heard of incidents of commerce,but the connection is repudiated by our Welsh friend, who thinks a bag-man cannot be incidental. Is the word a Welsh ornamentation ofDental, and is the card an invitation to the Jew dentists who travelabout with dog-carts full of teeth, and whose advertisements scandaliseeducated and legitimate odontologists ? We have exhausted ourguesses, and once more demand an explanation, which must be in somecivilised language, and therefore not in Welsh. Whats an incidentalgentleman ? PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (January 19, 1861.
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As Major SERIOUS ACCIDENT DURING THE FROST. and Captain ■ of the 13th Light Polkers were Skating with the lovely and accomplished Emily D- and Harriet V- THEIR FEELINGS SUDDENLY GAVE WAY. THEY BROKE THE ICE, AND WE HEAR THEY HAVE NOT YEX BEEN EXTRICATED PROM THEIR PERILOUS SITUATION ! A CASE OF REAL SELFISHNESS. To Mr. Punch. Sir, Pharisee Villa. I have made the discovery that women are not the kindlyand charitable beings which it is the fashion of poets, novelists, andpenny-a-liners to call them. There are a great number of claims made on behalf of benevolentsocieties at this period of the year. I have frequently read suchappeals, at breakfast, to my wife and the girls. I had promised to set apart last Saturday evening for dining athome with them, and then taking them to. a private box at CoventGarden Theatre. While taking a warm jelly, and some other trifles, for my lunch, atFarrances, my eye fell upon a very strong letter in the Times, askingcontributions to one of these excellen