From PUNCH.

Dunstan Times, Issue 523, 26 April 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

From PUNCH.

Mrs. Malaprop says she was once bled in the same place as Roger Tichbonie—in the temporary artory. The publicans have for some time taken to sell tea, on the plea <ff “Defence not Defiance,” There is another article of grocery which Bung might also vend and that appropriately—Tap-iooa. A curious canine coincidence may, possibly, escape the readers’ notice. At the recent Dog show ’ held in Dublin there were exactly 365 dogs exhibited, a dog for each day of the year,—illustrating the philosophical proverb—, “Every dog has his day.”

A most determined act of self inflicted torture has recently caused a cousidcrable sensation in a fashionable quarter ofTown. A lady, young, lovely and acomplished, with troops of friends and all that makes life enjoyable at her command, was detected deliberately “screwing up” her face ! it is suggested that a fitting honor to be conferred on meritorious Physicians and Surgeons would be that of the Order of the Bath. Nothing could be more suitable; but should the Bath be the Hot-Bath or the Cold 1

At the National Congress of Trades Societies lately held at Nottingham, a Mr. Graham said:—“ln his opinion it was one of the rights of a free man to cease work when he wished, either for reasonable or even unreasonable cause.” This is so exactly Mr. Punch's belief that, wishing at this identical moment to cease work, for the reasonable or unreasonable cause that he feels more inclined to smoke, heknocks off, without appending any proper and moral observations to Mr. Graham’s dictum. Whether Mr. Graham keeps any soit of servant, and if so, whether Mr. Graham recognises the right in question when lie wants his beer fetched, or his boots cleaned, is the only query that Mr Punch chooses to exert himself to put. But he must add that the world would go on delightfully if Ibis rule were always acted upon; and he is glad that Trade Societies are enlightened enough to do the best to bring on a Mill annum.