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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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and England gene-rally the ratepayers are exempt from the expense whichmust be entailed on the citizens of Paris by such machinesas that of which the operation is thus described byGalignani:— A powerful steam-roller for crushing the macadam on the roads isat the present moment at work on the Pont-Neuf, and passes back-wards and forwards up and down the steep inclines at each end ofthat bridge, amongst vehicles of all kinds, without causing the leastinconvenience. Under our British system of Local Self-Government, thestones in the roads are broken by the gradual agency ofhorses hoofs and the wheels of carriages, grinding, andground. What would the vestrymen of England say to theproposal of an additional highway-rate for a steam-mac-adamiserP It might, however, answer the purpose ofhorsekeepers and owners of vehicles to tax themselvesfor the termination of a state of our roads, which, hereor there, is always brutal. ..,... ■ -->-- January 6, 1866.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
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MR. SNIGGINS HAS A DAY AMONGST THE BANKS, AND SHREWDLY GUESSES WHY THEY ARE CALLED ONS AND OFFS. A ROW IN THE IRISH REPUBLIC. By a meeting of the Fenian Senate, lately held at the Senate House,734, Broadway, New York, the following resolutions were unanimouslyadopted:— Resolved— That the Irish Bepublic is now virtually established in the UnitedStates of America, and also in Ireland, where it exists in a state ofsuppressed hostility to the British Government. That the Irish Republic has arrived at such perfect maturity that,as might be the case with any old State enjoying a settled form ofgovernment, it is rent asunder by political dissension, and dividedagainst itself into two opposite parties, by an internal split. That John OMahony, President of the Irish Republic, is a traitorto the Senate and Constitution of that same. That, by the unanimousvote of ten to fifteen, the said Senate has adjudged the said JohnOMahony guilty of perjury, peculation, embezzlement, defamation,libel, s

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