An Orleans Plum.
“The selection of the High Schools at Edinburgh for the Orleans Princes has caused great offence to the Roman Catholic Clergy.”- Tablet.
Each Papist he winces at news, tart as quinces,
That all the French Princes seek Protestant schools,
But Punch, who ne’er minces, declares it evinces
Belief that all Catholics need not be Fools.
The Conundrum that Won the Prize at the last Grand Metropolitan Conundrum Show.
The Prize Question. Why is a sheep that is casting sheep’s-eyes, and making love, like the absurd designatinon that is generally given by blackguard little boys to a Frenchman?
The Prize Answer. Because he is a woolly-woo (a Voulez-vous.)
It is perfectly unnecessary to state, as persons always say, then they are about to state the very thing that is necessary, that the winner of the above was a confirmed Cockney, brought up in the very same school as the Wiwacious Wiscount.
An Ominous Present.
The King of Prussia, it is announced, has presented the Pope with two porcelain vases, as a memorial of his stay at Rome last year. The souvenir is appropriate in every respect. What could be more fitting the position of both giver and receiver than a present as easily cracked as the wits of the King of Prussia, and almost as liable to an utter smash as the temporal power of the Pope.
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