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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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tracted from the reportof a lecture deliveredat the Royal Institu-tion by ProfessorHelmholtz :— The greatest effort ofthe labour of man, he said,is obtained on the tread-mill, by which action, ifexerted in ascending stairs^he would raise himself 1,712feet in one hour. This brief and simple,but significant state-ment would do muchgood if it could bebrought sufficientlywell before the morallyinferior classes. Print-ed in large letters inthe form of a handbill,it might be posted up,by the help of thePolice, in all the pub-lic-houses and otherprincipal resorts ofrogues and thieves.The Stock ExchangeCommittee might alsostick it upon the walls of that building, wherein gamblers and speculators in the money-market most do congregate.Bank Directors would also do well to give it a conspicuous position in and about theirbanking-houses. There can be no doubt that the most effectual way to deter a rogue fromcrime would be that of impressing him with a vivid idea of its consequences; and an idle
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scoundrel could have no stronger inducement topractise honest industry than a knowledge ofwhat is meant by the hard labour to which hemay subject himself by theft and fraud; andthence a wholesome horror of the treadmill. Hewould be careful how he ran the risk of placinghimself in the position of climbing at the rateof 1,712 feet an hour, and standing all the whileat the same level. SONG TOR THE MERCHANTS. Our fathers of old, Though shivring with cold,Drove their bargains,the winds driving throughthem; But wiser are we, And prefer, Mr. T--ite, in weather-tight place to pursue them. But let us us beware! And whilst tempring the air,Keep an eye on the Gresham Committee. And mind they dont spile The handsomest pileWe can show anywhere in the City. Difference Between Wit and Humour. There has been so many thousand definitionsof Wit and Humour, that we do not offer theslightest apology for the following attempt toexplain the difference between them. We havebut little doubt that it will full

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