So, here's the present state of things—and let us have no revolutions—
Upsetting Emperors, Queens, and Kings; and our Parochial Institutions.
TREMENDOUS EFFECTS OF A KISS.
Nicholas and Francis Joseph have met at Olmütz; met and affectionately fraternised. For we are told that "loud applause followed from the spectators as the Emperors publicly kissed each other: and then the Court dinner followed, the two Emperors spending the evening together in undisturbed privacy." But this scene (see last week's Punch) our artist has already immortalised; he having sketched the Imperial couple—even as in an old play—"from behind the arras." The royal salute has been embalmed in the lines of the Austrian Poet Laureat, Doctor Von Wattz:—
"Snakes in their little nests agree,
And 'tis a pretty sight,
When the Emperors of the like kid-ney,
Do kiss left cheek and right."
But other, and deeper effects resulted from that Imperial smack! And such a smack! As though a red-hot poker should have kissed a barrel of gunpowder. For as cheeks were kissed—