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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917.
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917.
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917.
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917.

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917. - Various Various

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 153.

      August 1, 1917.

      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 Significantly enough the ground covered is almost identical with the subject-matter of an unpublished article of our own, entitled What Bulgaria won't get.

      The cow which walked down sixteen stairs into a cellar at Willesden is said to have been the victim of a false air-raid warning.

      In Scotland, says Mr. BARNES'S report on Industrial Unrest, the subject of liquor restrictions was never mentioned. Some thoughts are too poignant for utterance.

      According to the statement of a German paper A Partial Crisis threatens Austria. One of these days we feel sure something really serious will happen to that country.

      The Medical Officer of the L.C.C. estimates that in 1916 the total water which flowed under London Bridge was 875,000,000,000 gallons. It is not known yet what is to be done about it.

      The Army Council has forbidden the sale of raffia in the United Kingdom. Personally we never eat the stuff.

      Nature Notes: A white sparrow has been seen in Huntingdon; a well-defined solar halo has been observed in Hertfordshire, and Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL was noticed the other day reading The Morning Post.

      A boy of eighteen told the Stratford magistrate that he had given up his job because he only got twenty-five shillings a week. He will however continue to give the War his moral support.

      The Austrian EMPEROR has told the representative of The Cologne Gazette that he detests war. If not true this is certainly a clever invention on KARL'S part.

      We feel that the public need not have been so peevish because the experimental siren air-raid warning was not heard by everybody in London. They seem to overlook the fact that full particulars of the warning appeared next morning in the papers.

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      The public has been warned by Scotland Yard against a man calling himself Sid Smith. We wouldn't do it ourselves, of course, but we are strongly opposed to the police interfering in what is after all purely a matter of personal taste.

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      War bread will keep for a week, stated Mr. CLYNES for the Ministry of Food. Of course you can keep it longer if you are collecting curios.

      It is announced that all salaries in the German Diplomatic Service have been reduced. We always said that frightfulness didn't really pay.

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      Hamlet has been rendered by amateur actors at the Front, all scenery being dispensed with. If you must dispense with one or the other, why not leave out the acting?

      "To assist in the breaking-up of

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