Punch's Almanack for 1890

LINLEY. SAMBOURNE. INVENT R . ET. DEL R . NOVEMBER 1889

To Paris in Thirty-Six Hours. First, Second, and Third Class Grande Vitesse.
From London to Paris in—just time enough to allow of a comfortable Lunch and a quiet Cigar on board the Electric Plate-Glass Club Express.

Mr. Punch, said poor old Eighty-Nine, who was growing feebler and feebler, I am uneasy in my mind.
Didn't know you had one, replied the Sage. But what do you want with me?
You have been a great comfort to me—a very great comfort. I wish you would do something for my successor.
What, Young Ninety? Well, I will keep a friendly eye upon him also.
Yes, do. But I want you to begin at once. Help him through his life, as you have helped me.
Why, certainly, said Mr. Punch , smiling. All he will have to do will be, to put in an appearance with threepence at 85, Fleet Street, every Wednesday.