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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 - Various Various

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914

      Author: Various

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      VOL. 146

      JUNE 3rd 1914

      CHARIVARIA.

      When the King and Queen visit Nottinghamshire as the guests of the Duke and Duchess of Portland at Welbeck, three representative colliery owners and four working miners will, we read, be presented to their Majesties at Forest Town. A most embarrassing gift, we should say, and one which cannot, without hurting susceptibilities, be passed on to the Zoological Society.

      Are the French, we wonder, losing that valuable quality of tact for which they have so long enjoyed a reputation? Amongst the Ministers introduced at Paris to King Christian of Denmark, who enjoys his designation of The tall King, was M. Maginol, who is an inch taller than His Majesty. He should surely have been told to stay at home.

      In the Bow County Court, last week, a woman litigant carried with her, for luck, an ornamental horse-shoe, measuring at least a foot in length, and won her case. Magistrates trust that this idea, pretty as it is, may not spread to Suffragettes of acknowledged markmanship.

      Extract from an account in The Daily Chronicle of the Silver King disturbance:—The officers held her down, and, with the ready aid of members of the audience, managed to keep her fairly quiet, though she bit those who tried to hold their hands over her mouth. A stage hand was sent for ... If we are left to assume that she did not like the taste of that, we regard it as an insult to a deserving profession.

      Do people read as much as they used to? is a question which is often asked nowadays. There are signs that they are, anyhow, getting more particular as to what they read. Even the House of Commons is becoming fastidious. It refused, the other day, to read the Weekly Rest Day Bill a second time, and the Third Reading of the Home Rule Bill was regarded as a waste of time and intelligence.

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