Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, Sept. 27, 1890
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HEARING HIMSELF.
(MYSTERIOUS MEM. FROM A HAWARDEN NOTE-BOOK.)
Exceedingly kind and flattering of Max MUeLLER!
“I hope there are but few here present who have
never enjoyed the privil...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., October 25, 1890
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 7, 1914
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, August 20, 1892
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CONFESSIONS OF A DUFFER.
V.—­The Duffer at Cricket.
To hear my remarks on the Cricket, in the Pavilion,
you might think that I had been a great player entirely,
in my day. “Who i...
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LONDON MEDICAL STUDENT.
9.—­Of the sequel to
the Hall examination.
[Illustration: W]Whilst Mr. Muff follows the
beadle from the funking-room to the Council Chambe...
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CHARIVARIA.
“It is more dangerous to be a baby in London
than a soldier in France,” said Mrs. H. B. Irving
at the National Baby Week Exhibition. The same
disability—­namely...
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CHARIVARIA.
Not one of the morning papers advocated the appointment
of Sir Eric Geddes to be First Lord of the Admiralty.
A big scoop this for the Government.
***
A shortage of paper yarns is re...
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MAY 7, 1892
’Arry on wheels.
[Illustration: Our ’Arry Laureate.]
Dear Charlie,—­Spring’s
on us at last, and a proper old April
&nb...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, June 4, 1892
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CHARIVARIA.
“The public will not stand for increased railway
fares,” says a contemporary. They have
had too much standing at the old prices.
* * *
A Mile End man writes to The Daily ...
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PUNCH,
Or the London charivari.
Vol. 102.
March 19, 1892.
“Are you Hansard now?”
MERCHANT OF VENICE.
["The entire stock of Hansard’s
Parliamentary Debates ... was offered for
sale.&n...
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CHAPTER IV.
[Illustration: T]The conversation now subsided
into “private and confidential” whispers,
from which I could learn that Miss O’Brannigan
had consented to quit her fa...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Nov. 1, 1890
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CHARIVARIA.
Three bandits have been executed in Mexico without
a proper trial or sentence. This, we understand,
renders the executions null and void.
***
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CHARIVARIA.
Mr. Will Thorne declares that a hotel in
Petrograd charged him twelve shillings for four small
custards. After all, the war spirit of Russia,
it would seem, is not wholly dead.
* * *...
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IX.
PENNYROYAL.—­A CAROL.
"Far away in Sicily!”—­
A home-come sailor sang this
rhyme,
Deep in an ingle, mug on knee,
&nb...
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CHARIVARIA.
To celebrate his birthday, the Kaiser arranged
a theatrical performance, entitled The German Blacksmith,
of which he was part author. It is not yet known
in what way his people had o...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 100. Feb. 28, 1891
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THE MODERN ALEXANDER’S FEAST
OR, THE POWER OF SOUND.
(An Ode for the Brandenburg Diet Day; a long way
after Dryden.)
["At the banquet of the Diet of Brandenburg,
the GERMAN EMPEROR said:—&...
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CHARIVARIA.
Fewer births are recorded in Ireland during the past
seven months. No surprise can be felt, for we
cannot imagine anybody being born in Ireland on purpose
just now.
* * *
A London fi...
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Title: Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 153, November 7, 1917
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 11, 1891
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BOAT-RACE DAY.
The Reader will kindly imagine that
he has crossed Hammersmith Bridge, and is being
carried along by a jostling stream of sightseers towards
Mortlake. The banks are already occupi...
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FIRST AID TO TOMMY ATKINS.
Sir,—­I visited the Military Exhibition
the other day according to your instructions, my bosom
glowing with patriotic ardour. If anything besides
your instru...
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CHARIVARIA.
Now that petrol is being increased by eightpence a
gallon, pedestrians will shortly have to be content
to be knocked down by horsed vehicles or hand trucks.
* * *
Moleskins, says a news it...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 18, 1891
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CHARIVARIA.
The Premier, says a contemporary, has become greatly
attached to a white terrier puppy that he brought
with him from Colwyn Bay. The report that it
has been taught to run after its o...
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CHARIVARIA.
The huge waterspout observed off Guernsey last week
“travelling towards France” is believed
to have been making for the Peace Conference.
***
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 15, 1892
Author: Various
Editor: Francis Burnand
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CHARIVARIA.
People are asking, “Can there be a hidden brain
in the Foreign Office?”
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A German posing as a Swiss, and stated by the police
to be “a spy and a dangerous character,&r...
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CHARIVARIA.
The Germans refer to the Armistice negotiations as
Waffenstillstandeverhandlungen. We hope
it will be worse even than they think.
***
There is no truth in the rumour that among the m...
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CHARIVARIA.
“If a burglar broke into my house,” says
Lady Beecham, “I should use the telephone
to summon help.” Lady Beecham seems
to have a sanguine temperament.
* * *
A...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 1, 1891
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CHARIVARIA.
President Wilson is stated to have played several
keen games of “shuffle-board” on the George
Washington. As it is an open secret that
Lord Robert Cecil has been polishin...
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LADY GAY’S SELECTIONS.
Yacht “Ibex,” Weymouth.
Dear Mr. Punch,
Once again “my foot is on my native heath.”—­(I
don’t know where this quotation comes from,...
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156., March 5, 1919
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CONFESSIONS OF A DUFFER.
III.—­The literary Duffer.
[Illustration: “I have worn a cloak and
a Tyrolese hat, and attitudinised in the Picture-galleries.”]
Why I am not a suc...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, June 27, 1891
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IMPRESSIONS OF “IL TROVATORE.”
(BY A MATTER-OF-FACT PHILISTINE AT COVENT GARDEN.)
Act I. Scene 2.—­Leonora’s
confidant evidently alive to the responsibilities
of her positi...
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THE GREAT CREATURE.
Mr. Horatio Fitzharding Fitzfunk was a tall young
man, a thin young man, a pale young man, and, as some
of his friends asserted, a decidedly knock-kneed young
man. Moreover h...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 5, 1891
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THE COURIER OF THE HAGUE.
(BY THE “VACUUS VIATOR.")
He is an elderly amiable little Dutchman in a soft
felt hat; his name is Bosch, and he is taking
me about. Why I engaged him I don’t qui...
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WEEK BY WEEK.
We understand that careful observers have noted a
considerable amount of disturbance in the House of
Commons during the past three weeks. Various
reasons have, as usual, been advan...
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 152.
March 28th, 1917.
[Illustration: Torpedoed mine-sweeper
(to his pal). “As I was
A-SAYIN’, Bob, when we was
interrupted, it’s my ...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., November 29, 1890
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, November 15, 1890
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 152, January 24, 1917
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CHARIVARIA.
There are one hundred thousand more people living
in London than in New York. But they are only
just living.
* * *
“The Home Rule Bill,” says The Irish
Unionist Alliance,...
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Title: Punch, Volume 101, Jubilee Issue, July 18, 1891
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A MODEST METHOD OF FORMING A NEW BUDGET
So as to provide for the
deficiency of the revenue.
[Illustration: P] Poor Mr. Dyer! And so
this gentleman has been dismissed from the commission
of...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, September 13, 1890
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152. January 17, 1917
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CHARIVARIA.
“Nobody knows,” says a Berlin message,
“how near the Kapp counter-revolution came
to being a success.” A kind word from Commander
Kenworthy, it is believed, w...
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CHAPTER I.
Introduces the reader to the
Applebite family and to Agamemnon
Collumpsion Applebite in particular.
[Illustration: T]The following is extracted from
the Parliamentary Guide for 18&mda...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, July 23, 1892
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VOCES POPULI.
At the military exhibition.
In the Avenue facing the
Arena.
An Unreasonable Old Lady (arriving breathless,
with her grandson and niece). This’ll
be the place the balloon goes...
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 19, 1919
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IN MEMORIAM.
William Hardwick Bradbury.
Born, Dec. 3, 1832. Died, Oct.
13, 1892.
Large-hearted man, most loyal friend,
Art thou too gone—­too
early ...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 19, 1892
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Editor: Francis Burnand
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THE TIPTOES.
A sketch.
“The Wrongheads have
been a considerable family ever since England
was England.”
Vanbrugh.
[I...
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 25, 1919
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CHARIVARIA.
Professor Thatcher of New York describes President
Wilson as one of the five greatest men in the
world. Sir Eric Geddes is anxious to
know who the other three are.
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“The Jaz...
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DOING THE OLD MASTERS.
(A SKETCH AT BURLINGTON HOUSE.)
In Gallery no. I.
The Usual Elderly Lady (who judges every
picture solely by its subject). “No.
9. Portrait of Mrs. BRYAN...
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LONDON MEDICAL STUDENT.
11.—­How Mr. Muff concludes
his evening.
[Illustration: E]Essential as sulphuric acid
is to the ignition of the platinum in an hydropneuma...
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CHARIVARIA.
The Cologne Gazette is of the opinion that
the American troops, when they arrive in France, will
be hampered by their ignorance of the various languages.
But we understand that the A...
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SPECIMENS FROM MR. PUNCH’S SCAMP-ALBUM.
No. III.—­The biographer.
We will ask you, reader, this week, to compel your
fancy to take a further flight, and kindly imagine
yourself a...
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A DAY-DREAM AT MY UNCLE’S.
The result of a serious conversation between the authors
of my being ended in the resolution that it was high
time for me to begin the world, and do something for
myse...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 11, 1891
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CHAPTER III.
[Illustration: A]"After the ceremony, the happy
pair set off for Brighton.”
There is something peculiarly pleasing in the above
paragraph. The imagination instantly conj...
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 21, 1920
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Charact...
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Title: Punch, Or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 13, 1892
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CHARIVARIA.
“We thought it was to be a Peace Conference,”
remarks the Berliner Tageblatt sadly.
Instead of which it turned out to be another Diet of
Worms.
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THE COVENT GARDEN MASQUE.
Mumming—­masking—­masquerading;
Fanning—­fun—­fanfaronading;
Dancing—­duncing—­...
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MODERN TYPES.
(BY MR. PUNCH’S OWN TYPE WRITER.)
No. XXIII.—­The tolerated
husband.
It is customary for the self-righteous moralists who
puff themselves into a state of Jingo comp...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 10, 1891
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Title: Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 8, 1892
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, October 18, 1890
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CHARIVARIA.
Mr. William Watson describes his new
book of verse, The Man Who Saw, as “an
intermittent commentary on the main developments and
some of the collateral phenomena of the War.”&n...
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Title: Punch, Volume 101, September 19, 1891
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POETRY ON AN IMPROVED PRINCIPLE.
Let me earnestly implore you, good Mr. Punch,
to give publicity to a new invention in the art of
poetry, which I desire only to claim the merit of
having discovered.&n...
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STORICULES.
I.—­The suicide-advertisement.
[Illustration]
As you stood before the automatic machine on the station
platform, making an imbecile choice between a packet
of gooseberry nougat a...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 18, 1891
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 12, 1891
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Nov. 22, 1890
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 13, 1890
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 11, 1917
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 21, 1891
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CHARIVARIA.
A drought is reported from India and Eastern Africa.
Considering the amount of water which has recently
escaped from clouds over here it is not surprising
to find that they are feeli...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., October 11, 1890
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TOWN THOUGHTS FROM THE COUNTRY.
(WITH THE USUAL APOLOGIES.)
Oh, to be in London now that April’s
there,
And whoever walks in London sees, some
morning, in the Square,
&nb...
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A QUEER CHRISTMAS PARTY.
I remember coming home and dressing to go out again.
Of this so far I am sure. I remember too taking
a cab; also the cab taking me. But oddly enough
though I...
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THE MORAL OF PUNCH.
As we hope, gentle public, to pass many happy hours
in your society, we think it right that you should
know something of our character and intentions.
Our title, at a first g...
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CHARIVARIA.
There is a convict at Pentonville who is said to be
exactly like the Kaiser. He feels that in
view of the great inconvenience he has suffered it
is the KAISER’S duty at once to...
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, March 14, 1917
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CHARIVARIA.
“No amount of War Office approval will make
hens lay,” says The Weekly Dispatch.
These continuous efforts to shake our confidence in
the men entrusted with the conduct of...
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 3, 1892
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 146., January 14, 1914
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OCTOBER 1, 1892
“Stumped!”
(A WOULD-BE LAUDATORY ODE. BY JINGLE JUNIOR.)
[The young Indian Gentleman,
Mr. H. RANJITSINHJI, has “secured
&nbs...
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YE MODERATES OF LONDON!
[Illustration: The Stay-at-Home Voter.]
Ye Moderates of London
Who sat at home at ease,
Ah! little did you think upon
&nbs...
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CHARIVARIA.
Those who think that people in high positions live
a life of ease and comfort received a rude shock last
week. It is said that, while visiting the Royal
Enfield Works canteen, the Du...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 19, 1891
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, 13 June 1891
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 25, 1917
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THE GREAT CREATURE.
That “great creature,” like some other
“great creatures,” happened, as almanacs
say, “about this time” to be somewhat “out
at elbows;&rdqu...
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TO AN UNKNOWN COLLEAGUE.
(Inspired by the exchange of Minutes in Government
Departments.)
He was my friend—­if friendship’s
proof
Be sympathy profou...
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CHARIVARIA.
It appears that Irish criminals may be divided into
three classes (a) The ones you can’t
catch; (b) The ones you have caught but can’t
convict; (c) The ones you have convicted ...
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CHARIVARIA.
No enthusiasm attended the recent revival of the curious
May Day custom of dancing round the snow man.
***
Since the Muzzling Order, says a weekly paper, fewer
postmen in the West End have...
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CHARIVARIA.
A Newcastle miner who was stated to be earning a pound
a day has been fined ten pounds for neglecting his
children. The idea of waiting till September
20th and letting Mr. Smillie ne...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, November 7, 1891
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug 15, 1917
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 18, 1917
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, August 6, 1892
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CHARIVARIA.
“How the Germans never got wind of it,”
writes a correspondent of the British attack on the
Hindenburg line, “is a mystery.”
The failure of certain M.P.&rsquo...
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CHARIVARIA.
Germany is a bankrupt concern, says The Daily Mail.
A denial is expected every hour from Herr Michaelis,
who is Germany’s Official Deceiver.
***
Much sympathy is felt in German...
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CHARIVARIA.
“A motor car repairer,” says Mr. Justice
Bray, “is like a plumber. Once you
get him into the house you cannot get him out."...
Unless, of course, you show him...
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CHAPTER IV.
Has A great deal to say about
some one else besides our
hero.
[Illustration: K]Kindness was a characteristic
of Agamemnon’s disposition, and it is not therefore
a matter of sur...
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 29, 1919
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CHARIVARIA.
The Imperial aspirations of King Ferdinand
are discussed by a Frankfort paper in an article entitled
“What Bulgaria wants.” Significantly
enough the ground covered is alm...
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CHARIVARIA.
The spread of influenza is said to be greatly assisted
by “germ-carriers.” We can’t
think why germs should be carried. Let ’em
walk.
***
According to Th...
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PUNCH,
Or the London charivari.
Vol. 99.
August 2, 1890.
[Illustration: A “Scene” In
the Highlands.
Ill-used Husband (under the Bed).
“Aye! Ye may crack me,
and ye ...
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CHARIVARIA.
“‘Strike while the iron is hot’
must be the motto,” says a business man.
Mr. Smillie, on the other hand, says that it doesn’t
so much matter about the i...
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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. October 10, 1891
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THE CUT
is to the garment what the royal head and arms are
to the coin—­the insignia that give it currency.
No matter what the material, gold or copper, Saxony
or sackcloth, the die im...
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NOVELTY UP TO DATE.
[Illustration]
The originality of the plot of The English Rose
(the new play at the Adelphi) having been questioned,
the following Scotch Drama is published with a view
of ascertai...
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CHARIVARIA.
We understand that a proposal to send a relief party
to America to rescue Scotsmen from the threatened
Prohibition law is under consideration.
***
It is rumoured that The Times is about to...
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CHARIVARIA.
The Kaiser has again visited the High Seas Fleet in
security at Wilhelmshaven. Enthusiastic applause
greeted the brief speech in which he urged them “to
stick to it.”
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CHARIVARIA.
Victory is only a question of keeping cool, says Von
tirpitz. A long-suffering Fatherland anticipates
no difficulty whatever in following his advice during
the winter.
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CHARIVARIA.
“Of course I cannot be in France and America
at the same time,” said Colonel Roosevelt
to a New York interviewer. The ex-President
is a very capable man and we can only c...
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CHARIVARIA.
Writing in the Echo de Paris “PERTINAX”
asks Mr. Lloyd George to make some quite
clear statement regarding his advice to electors.
There is more innocence in Paris than y...
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CHARIVARIA.
The birth-rate in Berlin, it appears, is considerably
lower this year than last. We can quite understand
this reluctance to being born a German just now.
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WRESTLING WITH WHISTLERS.
(A reminiscence of A recent exhibition.)
Scene—­The Goupil
Gallery. Groups of more or less puzzled Britons
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CHARIVARIA.
We understand that the Frenchman who lost his temper
so completely during a duel with pistols that he threatened
to shoot his opponent will be suspended from taking
part in similar encount...
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 156.
May 28, 1919.
[Illustration: “AUSTRIAE EST IMPERARE ORBI
UNIVERSO”.
Once upon A time.
To-day.]
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CHARIVARIA.
We understand that it has now been decided that the
Ex-Kaiser will travel to England for his trial by
way of the Channel Tunnel.
* * *
A new coal war is anticipated by The Daily Express.&n...
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CHARIVARIA.
There is no truth in the report that one of the most
telling lines in the National Anthem is to
be revised so as to read “Confound their Scandiknavish
tricks.”
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CHARIVARIA.
An alarming rumour is going the rounds to the effect
that Printing House Square refuses to accept any responsibility
for the findings of the Peace Conference.
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CHARIVARIA.
“Motorists,” says a London magistrate,
“cannot go about knocking people down and killing
them every day.” We agree. Once should
be enough for the most g...
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LONDON MEDICAL STUDENT.
12.—­Of the College, and
the conclusion.
[Illustration: O]Our hero once more undergoes
the process of grinding before he presents himself
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CHARIVARIA.
The effect of the curtailed train-service throughout
the country is already observable. On certain
sections of one of our Southern lines there are no
trains running except those whic...
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MODERN TYPES.
(BY MR. PUNCH’S OWN TYPE WRITER.)
No. XVI.—­The Hurlingham
girl.
It is not so easy as it might appear to define the
Hurlingham Girl with complete accuracy. To...
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 152.
June 20th, 1917.
=CHARIVARIA.=
A man who purchased sandwiches at a railway restaurant
and afterwards threw them into the road was fined
five shillings at Grim...
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CHARIVARIA.
Prince Albert Joachim, it appears,
did not take part in the attack on a French officer
at the Hotel Adlon, but only gave the signal.
Always the little Hohenzollern!
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CHARIVARIA.
“Hull electors,” declared a Radical contemporary,
“have dealt the Coalition a stinging rebuke.”
But not, as others claim, the coupon de grace.
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PUNCH,
Or the London charivari.
Vol. 100.
January 3, 1891.
[Illustration: Vol. C, Calendar]
January xxxi Days.
1 Th N. Year’s D.
2 F ...
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CHARIVARIA.
A rumour is going about that martial law may be declared
in Ireland at any moment. By which of the armies
of occupation does not seem clear.
* * *
To make money, says a London magist...
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JULY 9, 1892
[Illustration: (Vol. CIII)]
* * * *
*
Simple as A “B” “C.”
Dear ex-Chancellor with A past,—­I
am sorry to have to add...
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A MANUAL OF DENOUEMENTS.
“In the king’s name,
Let fall your swords and daggers.”—­Critic.
[Illustration: A]A melo-drama is a theatrical
dose i...
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A TERRIBLE TALE.
[Illustration]
Alas! it had of course to be!
For weeks I had not left my room,
When one fell day there came on me
An awful doom.
A burly rough, who drank and swore,
Without a wo...
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CHARIVARIA.
Several factories where counterfeit bread tickets
were printed have been discovered in Berlin.
We understand that the defence will be that the tickets
were only intended to be exchan...
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THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.
No. III.
Scene—­On the Coach
from Braine l’Alleud to Waterloo. The vehicle
has a Belgian driver, but the conductor is a true-born
Briton. M...
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CHAPTER II.
[Illustration: Y]"You can have no idea, Jack,
how deeply the loss of those venerated family retainers
affected me.”
My uncle paused. I perceived that his eyes were
full, ...
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MORE THAN SATISFIED!
(With Mr. PUNCH’S apologies to
the daily TELEGRAPH’S “Academic
enthusiast.”)
“She-Pantaloons? seedy? Now, do we look
like it?”
The speake...
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CHARIVARIA
The grouse-shooting reports are coming in. Already
one of the newly-rich has sent a brace of gamekeepers
to the local hospital.
* * *
“A few hours in Cork,” says a Daily
M...
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CHAPTER I.
[Illustration]
I held it in my right hand, toying with it curiously,
and not without pleasure. It was merely a long,
wooden pen-holder, inky and inert to an unappreciative
eye, but to...
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MYSELF, PUNCH, AND THE KEELEYS.
I dined with my old friend and schoolfellow, Jack
Withers, one day last September. On the previous
morning, on my way to the India House, I had run up
against a s...
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LARKS FOR LONDONERS.
Sir,—­Certainly throw open all our Town
Halls for gratuitous concerts and dances! But
that’s not half enough. Some of us don’t
care for dancing, ...
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CHARIVARIA.
“After all,” asks a writer, “why
shouldn’t Ireland have a Parliament, like England?”
Quite frankly we do not like this idea of retaliation
while more humane m...
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CHARIVARIA.
There is no truth in the rumour that the Imperial
Government is trying to secure from King Alfonso
an agreement that German prisoners shall not escape
on Sundays or in batches of more than...
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CHARIVARIA.
“We will hold up wheat, we will hold up meat,
we will hold up munitions of war and we will hold
up the world’s commerce,” says Herr Ballin.
Meanwhile his countrymen...
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CHARIVARIA.
A lunatic who recently escaped from an asylum was
eventually recaptured in a large dancing-hall in the
West-End. The fact that he was waltzing divinely
and keeping perfect time with ...
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CHARIVARIA.
Prohibition meetings in Scotland, says an official,
have been attended by fifty thousand people.
We should not have thought there were so many aliens
in Scotland.
* * *
At an Oldbury...
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PUNCH,
Or the London charivari.
Vol. 102.
April 2, 1892.
“’Tis merry in Hall.”
[Illustration: “Knock’d ’em!”]
“What’s in an ’at withou...
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CHARIVARIA.
A Liverpool grocer was fined last week for overcharging
for margarine, eggs, cheese, ham, bacon, cocoa, jam
and suet. Any other nation, it is pointed out,
would have had a man like t...
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CONFESSIONS OF A DUFFER.
No. IX.—­The Duffer
deer-stalking.
I am in favour of Mr. BRYCE’s Access to Mountains
Bill, and of Crofters who may be ambitious to cultivate
the fertile ...
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THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.
No. IX.
Scene—­The Burg Terrace at Nuremberg.
Podbury on a bench, grappling with the Epitome
of Spencer.
Podbury (reading aloud, with comments).
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CHAPTER V.
Shows that “There’s many
A slip” Between other things
beside “The cup and the
lip.”
[Illustration: T]The heir of Applebite continued
to squall and thrive...
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CHARIVARIA.
“What we have got to do,” says Lord Rothermere,
“is to keep calm and mind our own business,
instead of worrying about the affairs of every other
nation.” It s...
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CHARIVARIA.
“Officers,” says a recent A.C.I., “may
use their public chargers for general purposes.”
Army circles regard this as a body blow at the taxi-sharks.
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 153.
August 22, 1917.
[Illustration: A poultry-fancier, hearing
that defences at the front
are sometimes disguised as hen-houses,
determined to Reverse the p...
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LAISSEZ FAIRE.
(INSCRIPTION FOR A FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.)
[Illustration]
Here is an Institution doomed to scare
The furious devotees of Laissez Faire.
What ment...
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PUNCH,
Or the London charivari.
Vol. 102.
February 6, 1892.
[Illustration: “A good Stayer.”
The dealer said, “The Mare
could stay for ever.”
She seemed inclined
to ...
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CHARIVARIA.
A Brass-hat employed at the Air Ministry recently
requested that his salary might be reduced on the
ground that there was now very little work for him
to do. As no other symptoms dev...
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OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE FIRE AT THE TOWER.
The document with this title, that has got into the
newspapers, has been dressed up for the public eye.
We have obtained the original draft, and beg
to ...
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CHARIVARIA.
The mystery of the Foreign Office official who has
not gone to Paris for the Peace Conference has been
cleared up. He is the caretaker.
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THE MAN WHO WOULD.
III.—­The man who would
get on.
“I dreamed,” said the Scotch Professor,
“that I was struggling for dear life with a
monstrous reptile, whose scaly coils ...
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TRADE REPORT.
(From our own reporter.)
[Illustration: T]The market has been in a most
extraordinary state all the morning. Our first
advices informed us that feathers were getting very
hea...
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CHARIVARIA.
The favourite reading of the Sultan of Turkey
is said to be criminal literature. A gift-book
in the shape of a new Life of the Kaiser is about
to be despatched to him.
* * *
King Ale...
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CHAPTER III.
[Illustration: H]Haberdashers, continued my friend
the boot, are wonderful people; they make the greatest
show out of the smallest stock—­whether of
brains or ribbons&mdas...
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CHARIVARIA.
“Germany will sign,” says an evening contemporary,
“because the Allies hold all the trumps.”
They also hold all the Manchurian beef, and are prepared,
should ...
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VOL. 102
June 25, 1892
“Versailles” In Leicester
square.
(Or, the new ballet at the
Empire, as it appears through
Mr. PUNCH’S Pince-Nez.)
Tableau I.—­The Park at Versailles...
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CHARIVARIA.
A “Company for Oversea Enterprises” has
been formed in Hamburg. It has no connection
with the German High Sea Fleet.
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MR. PUNCH’S PRIZE NOVELS.
No. XII.—­The mate of
the Marlinspike.
(BY SHARK MUSSELL; AUTHOR OF “ERECT WITH
A STOVE IN HER,” “MY GYP MADE TO WHEEZE,”
&ldquo...
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CHARIVARIA.
There are rumours of Prohibition in Scotland.
We can only say that if Scotland goes dry it will
also go South.
* * *
By an order of the food controller rice
has been freed from all r...
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LETTERS TO ABSTRACTIONS.
No. XVII.—­To failure.
A Philosopher has deigned to address to me a letter.
“Sir,” writes my venerable correspondent,
“I have been read...
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HOW MR. CHOKEPEAR KEEPS A MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Mr. CHOKEPEAR is, to the finger-nails, a respectable
man. The tax-gatherer was never known to call
at his door a second time for the same rate; he take...
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 101.
November 21st, 1891.
[Illustration: Cars, in honour
of the Welsh Lord Mayor,
Strangely enough omitted from
the procession on the ninth.]
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VOCES POPULI.
In A fog.—­A reminiscence
of the past month.
Scene—­Main Thoroughfare
near Hyde Park. Time 8 P.M. Nothing visible
anywhere, but very much audible; horses ...
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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
[Illustration: Parallel.
Joe, the Fat Boy in Pickwick, startles the Old Lady;
Oscar, the Fad Boy in Lippincott’s, startles
Mrs. Grundy.
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A DAY AT ANTWERP.
(By the “VACUUS Viator.”)
In the Place Verte.—­“The traveller,”
according to Baedeker, “should at once
direct his steps to the Cathedral.&rdqu...
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THE WAITERS’ STRIKE.
(AT THE NAVAL EXHIBITION.)
[Illustration]
The German Waiter waxeth fat; he grows
exceeding proud;
He is a shade more kicksome than can fairly
be allo...
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CHARIVARIA.
A memorial to Simon de Montfort has
been unveiled at Evesham, where he fell in 1265.
A pathetic inquiry reaches us as to whether Simon
is yet demobilised.
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CHARIVARIA.
The announcement of Mr. Justice Bray that bigamy
is rampant at the present time has been drawn to the
notice of the food-controller, who wishes
it to be clearly understood that under no ci...
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 99.
August 30, 1890.
[Illustration]
“Why not live out of
London?”
Sir,—­Capital subject
recently started Daily Telegraph, with the
above titl...
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CHARIVARIA.
“Germany,” says Count RANTZAU, “cannot
be treated as a second-rate nation.” Not
while it is represented by tenth-rate noblemen.
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THE AUTOMATIC PHYSIOGNOMIST.
Scene—­The German
Exhibition, near an ingenious machine constructed
to reveal the character and future of a person according
to the colour of his or her hair, fo...
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PUNCH,
Or the London charivari.
Vol. 101.
July 4, 1891.
[Illustration]
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URBI et ORBI.
Mr. Punch returns thanks for the anticipatory
congratulations on the occasion of ...
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THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
(By the Observer’s own Correspondent.)
It will be seen that we were not premature in announcing
the probability of the birth of a Prince of Wales;
and though it...
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ON A NEW YEARLING.
(SECOND WEEK.)
[Illustration: Second Week. Little 1892
grows rapidly, and begins to look about him.]
My fire was low; my bills were high;
&...
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CHARIVARIA.
Now that the Presidential elections are over it is
hoped that any Irish-Americans who joined the Sinn
Fein murder-gang for electioneering purposes will
go home again.
* * *
Owing to pressu...
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CHARIVARIA.
According to a Rome paper, Hindenburg has requested
that all the Royal Princes shall be removed from the
West Front. The original plan of protecting Their
Royal Highnesses by moving ...
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VOLUME THE FIRST.
* * * *
*
[Illustration: Introduction.]
[Illustration: T]This Guffawgraph is intended
to form a refuge for destitute wit—­an asylum
for ...
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CHARIVARIA.
More than a million pounds of concealed sugar have
been discovered in New York. It is suspected
that this was intended as the nucleus of a hoard.
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THE GAME OF THE LITTLE HORSES.
(A SKETCH AT THE CASINO, DINARD.)
On either side of the circular Race-course,
with its revolving metal horses, is a Green Table,
divided into numbered squares, around wh...
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