Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893

"Humph! Julia may use your hand, but you will not trump mine," retorted the Oracle. "If revenants knew what nonsense is put into their spectral mouths by noodles and charlatans, they would never return to be made spectral pilgarlics of." "Right, Father Christmas!" cried Mr. Punch. "But the Voces from my Oracular Funograph are not ghostly nothings, neither are they ambiguous, like the oracles of the Sibyl of Cum,to which, my eloquent Premier, some have had the audacity to compare certain of your vocal deliverances." The Old Oracular Hand smiled sweetly. "Nescit vox missa reverti," he murmured. "Would that Edison could invent a Party Leader's Phonograph whose utterances should satisfy at the time without danger of being quoted against one fifty years later by Cleon the Tanner, or Agoracritus the Sausage-Seller, to whom even the Sibylline Books would scarce have been sacred. But you and your Funographas you neatly call ithave never been Paphlagonian, have never had to give up to Party what was meant for Mankind." "The Penny Phonograph," pursued Mr. Oracle Punch, "is now prodigiously patronised. For the popular penny you can hear an American band, a Chevalier coster ballad, the 'Charge of the Light Brigade,' a comic song by 'Little Tich,' or a speech by the Old Man eloquent. No; for the latter I believe they charge twopence. That is fame, my Pantagruelian Premier. But in my Funographcharge the unchangeable Threepenceyou can hear the very voice of Wisdom and Wit, of Humanity and Humour, of Eloquence and Essential Truth, of Music and of Mirth!" ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 35665
Author: Various
Release Date: Mar 24, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917