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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 By: Various |
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VOLUME 98, JUNE 21ST 1890 edited by Sir Francis Burnand
"PLACE AUX DAMES!" [Following the brilliant success of Miss FAWCETT at Cambridge,
Mlle. BELCESCO, a Roumanian lady, took her degree to day
as Docteur en Droit . Like Miss FAWCETT, she obtained the
highest place at the examination for the Licentiate's Degree,
and her success was not less brilliant at the examination for
the Doctor's Degree. "Daily News" Paris Correspondent. ] [Illustration: "SENIORA FAWCETT." So to be entitled henceforth, as she is Seniorer to the Senior
Wrangler. ] To Seniora FAWCETT,
The Wranglers yield first place;
And now, first of the Law set,
One of another race,
Beauty, Brunette, Roumanian,
From man takes top Degree!
In learning's race Melanion
Is beaten, one can see,
By the new Atalanta;
At Law School or Sorbonne,
As at our native Granta,
The girls the prize have won.
Bravo, brunette BELCESCO!
Some limner ought to draw
A quasi classic fresco,
O Lady of the Law!
O Mathematic Maiden!
And show the pretty pair
With Learning's trophies laden
And manhood in a scare.
Ah, Portia of Paris!
Urania of the Cam!
Punch , whose especial care is
To sever truth from sham,
Is no great Woman's Rightist,
But this is not clap trap;
Of pundits the politest,
To you he lifts his cap!
Docteur en Droit , Punch watches
Miss FAWCETT by the Cam;
To you she quick despatches
A friendly telegram.
He, friend of all the Nations,
Of Woman as of Man,
Adds his "felicitations."
Well done, Roumanian!!! WEEK BY WEEK. The prevalence of wet weather has had a painful effect on the aspect
of the metropolitan streets. We do not refer so much to their having
been universally inundated with rain, but rather to the absence from
them of those pretty dresses in which it is customary for ladies
to disport themselves during sunny weather. For instance, it was
calculated the other day by a well known wrangler, that if the
tangential surface of a Bond Street pavement be represented by the
formula: x([Greek: pi] y^{n^th}) = y x [Greek: pi]/x, the
decrease in the number of pedestrians appearing on a wet day may be
set down as 18426 1/52. A Correspondent calls our attention to the prevalence of green on the
various trees of the Metropolis. "This phenomenon," he observes, "is
noticeable in May and early June every year. Some trees are greener
than others, whilst others scarcely come up to the standard of leafy
verdure displayed by their fellows. Taking the trees in the Park and
arranging them in the inverse ratio of their distances at rectangular
intervals from the common centre of their growth, it will be found
that the surface area of a Plane tree is equal to exactly five hundred
times the cubic capacity of a gooseberry bush, measured from a point
on its inner circumference." Miss ROBINSON, Mrs. TOUCHE ARMING, and Lady CORDELIA CROSSBIT, were
photographed yesterday. We hear that excellent likenesses of these
brilliant ornaments of the Upper Ten have been secured. The wonderful tameness and docility of the three African lions now
going through their daily performance at the French Exhibition at
Earl's Court, have astonished no less than pleased all who have
witnessed them, but it is not generally known, that their obedient
condition is due to their diet. This has for some time consisted of
a well known infant's and invalid's food, washed down with copious
draughts of a widely advertised patent medicine that claims to act as
"a special brain and nerve tonic," and it is this last that it is said
is responsible for the quenching of the natural ferocity and utter
prostration of spirit which enables their talented trainer, together
with the watchful attentions of a highly intelligent boar hound, to
put them through a series of playful and innocent tricks, hitherto
associated rather with the entertaining efforts of the skilled and
educated guinea pig than with the masterly ferocity of the monarch of
the desert... Continue reading book >>
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