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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917 - Various Various

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 13, 1917

      Author: Various

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 152.

      June 13, 1917.

      CHARIVARIA.

      Count Tisza has declared his intention of going to the Front for the duration of the War. He denies, however, that he caught the idea from Mr. Winston Churchill.

      The Germans announced that Chérisy was impregnable. In view of the fact that the place has since been captured by the British it is felt that Sir Douglas Haig could not have read the German announcement.

      Owners of babies are asked to hang out flags from their houses during the forthcoming Baby Week at Croydon. Parents who have only a little Bunting should hang that out instead.

      A parrot owned by a lady at Ipswich is said to make poll scratchers for herself out of small pieces of soft wood. In justice to the bird it must be stated that she has frequently expressed a desire to be allowed to do war-work, but has been discouraged.

      A Battersea fitter has been committed for trial for breaking into a Kingston jeweller's and stealing goods worth £2,350. There is really no excuse for this sort of thing, as the public have been repeatedly asked by the Government not to go in for expensive jewellery.

      An Eastbourne coal merchant told the tribunal that a substitute sent to him was too dirty to cart coals. The department has apologised for the mistake and explained that it was thought the man was required to deliver milk.

      According to the Berliner Tageblatt, twenty-nine houses in Oberreuth have been burned down and a villager aged ninety-seven years has been arrested. The veteran, it appears, puts down his sudden crime to the baneful influence of the cinema.

      One of the latest Army Orders permits the wearing of leather buttons in place of brass. Our readers should not be too ready to assume that this will have any effect on the existing meat-pie shortage.

      Recently published statistics of the Zoological Gardens show a marked decrease of mortality among the inmates since they were placed on rations. A nasty rumour is also laid to rest by the declaration that the notices which deal with Enquiries for Lost Children and are prominently displayed in the Gardens were actually in vogue before the rationing system was introduced.

      Paper is one of the principal foods of Chips, the pet goat of Summer-down Camp. In view of the increasing value of this commodity an attempt is to be made to encourage the animal to accept caviare instead.

      Quite good results in the sterilisation of polluted drinking water, says The British Medical Journal, have been obtained by the use of sulphondichloraminobenzoic. It appears that you just mention this name to the germs (stopping for lunch in the middle) and the little beggars are scared to death.

      In a recent message to General Ludendorff, the Kaiser refers to the German defence as being mainly in your hands. And only last April they were professing to find it in Hindenburg's feet.

      It is not yet compulsory under the new Order, but as a precaution it is advisable for the owner of a cheese to have his full name and address written on the collar.

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