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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 - Various Various

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914

      Author: Various

      Editor: Owen Seaman

      Release Date: January 29, 2008 [eBook #24453]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 146, JUNE 17, 1914***

      E-text prepared by Jane Hyland, Malcolm Farmer,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      VOL. 146.

      June 17th, 1914.

      CHARIVARIA.

      The Pocket Asquith is announced, and we are asked to say that the pocket in question is not Mr. Redmond's.

      The discovery of gold particles in a duck's gizzard has, we are told, caused a rush of mining prospectors to Liberty Township, Ohio. It is expected that the duck will shortly be floated as a limited liability company.

      The Valuation Department has discovered at Llangammarch Wells, Brecknockshire, 50 acres of land for which no owner can be found. Anyone, therefore, who has lost any land is recommended to communicate at once with the Department.

      The Astronomer-Royal, in reading his annual report at the Royal Observatory last week, said that the mean temperature of the year 1913 was 50.5 degrees. Seeing that this temperature was one degree above the average for the 70 years ended 1910, we consider that the epithet was undeserved.

      We hesitate to suggest that The Times is catering for cannibals, but it is certainly curious that a recent issue should have contained the following headlines:—

      Prepared Foods. infants, children & invalids.

      By the way, the little essay on Foods of Antiquity omitted to mention that these may still be picked up by curio-hunters at certain railway buffets.

      What has become of all the cabs which have been displaced by the taxis? is a question which is often asked. It has now been partially answered. According to a cable published last week, "The steamer Rappahannock reports the presence of numerous icebergs and 'growlers' on the North Atlantic steamship routes."

      At last there are signs of a reaction against under-dressing on the stage. The producers of a new revue advertise:—

      50 REAL LIVE PERFORMERS. Over 250 Parisian Model Frocks and Hats.

      Mr. H. Cscinsky, the author of the standard work, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, says that 999 out of every 1,000 pieces of old oak furniture in the present day are forgeries. The only way, therefore, to ensure that you get a genuine specimen is to order 1,000 pieces, and the furniture trade trusts that all collectors will take this elementary precaution when purchasing.

      The abandonment of the scheme for the rebuilding of the Lambeth Police Court has caused some disappointment among local criminals, some of whom, we are glad to hear, are ashamed to be seen in the present structure.

      Wotcher bin doin'—fightin'?

      No—boohoo— I bin fought!

      Being convinced that Germany possesses too many Leagues and Associations the town of Seesen, in the Harz, has established an Association for Combating the Mania for the Formation of Leagues and Associations—not realising until too late that they have thereby formed one more.

      Keep your arms is Sir Edward Carson's latest advice to the Ulster volunteers—and they have kept their heads so well that they should have no difficulty in this respect.

      An American clergyman got into trouble last week for holding up his hand and trying to stop the traffic in the Strand. The sky-pilot found out pretty soon that he was out of his element.

      A man placed a bank paper bag containing £63 10s. on the counter at the chief post-office in Swansea, one day last week, while he changed a postal order. When he turned to pick up the bag it had disappeared. The local police incline to the view that someone must have taken it.

      A muddle-headed correspondent writes to express surprise on learning that the day devoted to collections for the charities connected with the Variety Stage should be known as Tag Day. The old fellow had always imagined that Tag Day was a toast on German war vessels.

      A TIME EXPOSURE.

      I turned the family album's page

      And noted with a smile

      The efforts of a bygone age

      At photographic style;

      There, pegtopped, grandpa could be seen,

      While grandma beamed, contented

      To know her brand-new crinoline

      The latest thing invented.

      And there Aunt Mary's looks belied

      Her gravity of dress;

      That great poke-bonnet could not hide

      Her youthful comeliness;

      There, too, was father when a boy,

      And elsewhere in the series

      A youthful cousin (Fauntleroy),

      An uncle in Dundrearies.

      And then before my scornful eye

      A smirking youth appeared,

      Flaunting a

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