NEWS 200: A VISIT TO THE CONVICT-PRISON IN NAPLES: Mr.Gladstone－ And what do you call this man? he doesn't look like a villain. The Gaolor－ Don't you believe any of it, on the contrary,he's a demagogue, an old constitutional minister of 1848 called Carlo Poërio. In his inexhaustible clemency the best and most worthy of kings ordered that we chain him to an assassin, so that he might return to the good. He'd have been completely lost if we'd left him with another demagogue

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 24: －Did he need to smoke pipes[,] him there[,] to get a coloured face!

PARISIANS TYPES 29: Discomfort in talking to people who have a mania for putting thier story into action. －Yes dear Sir, do you think that the rrrrascal was allowed to laugh in my face. You know I won't stand for that. So, I punched him... there, like that, do you see, and I shook you... there, like that... vigorously

JOURNEY TO CHINA 4: THE SEAFARERS' HOTEL. He who says hotel-keeper －in China－ and above all in a seaport, says patent thief... if you bring to his notice that he counts dinners that you have not ordered －errands that you have not had [him] make －waiters who have not served you －expenses for transporting luggage for which you have paid, he replies graciously: Suh, we always count that, always... that is the Chinese habit!... Editer's note: This habit also exists in certain French sea ports

Papas 20: Oh! Sir... you shouldn't laugh at him like that..

NEWS 37: A STUBBORN OLD MAN. －Clerk of the court, would you be kind enough to tell me when they'll punish the individual who, at the place du Havre, put my eye in the condition in which you see it. －But sir, it's unthinkable that you should continue to wear such an eye-patch when we've proven to you that no one was punched in the place du Havre... do you know that the ex-members of the Society of the Tenth of December would have the right to demand compensation for the harm that you're doing to their reputation!

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 6: － [May] I introduce to you my son Théodule, scarely out of college and he's already made a multitude of victims... al the young women wish to marry him! － The bad boy!... he takes after his father!

NEWS 29: AT THE DOOR OF THE ÉLYSÉE [PALACE]: －Sirs, the Prince has told me to tell you that he is not there! －What! does he no longer wish to follow our advice? －No. he [sic] claims that you've already stuffed him full of it as it is... －Hapless France! hapless Prince!

SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

Bathers 10: Hurry up, ugly wretch; have you seen that poodle there, he should have been a sailor, he's made boats for himself with walnut shells, and you're afraid of the four sous pool

Conjugal Manners 44: Inconvenient to dream aloud: I dreamed... I called Victor! You lied to me, you old gherkin, I couldn't call Victor, because you'd named him Boniface!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 61: －What were you thinking of, Mr. Piquepruneman, to have made me a frock-coat as much [in the style] of a landlord as that... you well know that I live in the same street as citizen Proudhon!..

NEWS 130: －What an odd game!...each player finds that he has the King!..

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 22: Is the account exact?... now you're going to ask me if I can give you a receipt... under the pretext that if one's rich one should always give something!..

Affectation 2: I said to myself: do they think we're from the rue des Lombards?... There's a little air about you which is not that of a confectioner at all

SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 7: －Well!... do you intend to stay there? －Certainly not!... I was waiting so that you could carry me to the village on your back... －No thanks, for a league and a half from here!... are you mad?... －Come!... look here, my friend... act as though you've killed a roe-deer and you've got to carry it home!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: －Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? －It is to my brother, Sir

News 112: You’re wrong to want to post up that...advertisement..

Family Proverbs 2: Oh! Monster, you allow yourself to tell me that I'm an old melon, and that my hair is a wig: spare the rod and spoil the child!..

Conjugal Manners 34: I should have bet on it ... instead of taking him to see Séraphin, you take him to play ... It's already bad enough for grown-ups; poor little dear! ... －－ Don't worry, Madam, that's the way children amuse themselves!

THESE GOOD PARISIANS 13: THE PARISIAN － Tell me, worthy fellow, what do you do with all your cows when they become old and no longer give milk?... THE COW-HERD － Look here,... the tomfoolery.. you make beef out of them!..

NEWS 62: －Got to admit that it's very odd that the grapes have caught the potatoes' disease!

[NEWS] 100: Mme. POTARD. － Isn't it true, gallant turco, that you prefer French women to Africans?... Mr. POTARD. － Hush!... my good lady..., you know you'll make him blush!..

NEWS 60 : －Have you left him nothing, that farmer?... －But I heff, cheneral, I left him hiss shirt... if you vish I vill brink it for you to etteck －Well now... Chippmann...... here's the [military] cross!..

NEWS 145: The Emperor Soulouque, having learned that a European journalist permitted himself to criticise some of the acts of his administration, arrived to sieze the guilty man and plunged him into a cooking pot full of boiling tar －All with the hope that this would serve as a lesson to this hack and that he would not write a second article against his majesty. (Official prefect of Haiti.) (Note from le Charivari) －This ingenious method to curb the deviations of the Press is recommended for the meditation of the Burgraves