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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916 - Owen Seaman

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916

      Author: Various

      Editor: Owen Seaman

      Release Date: September 19, 2007 [EBook #22672]

      Language: English

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 150.

      January 12, 1916.

      CHARIVARIA.

      There is much satisfaction in the German Army at the announcement that iron coins to the value of ten million marks are to be substituted for nickel and copper. It is now hoped that those Crosses may yet prove to be worth something.

      A resident of Honor Oak writes to the papers to say that such was the patriotic anxiety of people in his neighbourhood to pay their taxes at the earliest possible moment that he found a long queue before the collector's door on January 3rd and had to wait an hour before his turn came. On reading his letter several West-end theatres patriotically offered the collector the loan of their House Full boards.

      Prince William of Wied, the ex-ruler of Albania, is at present in Serbia, feverishly awaiting restoration to his former dignity. The situation is not very favourable, however, and his German advisers have warned him to curb his Mpretuosity.

      An American barque with a cargo of beans for Germany has been seized and unloaded by the Swedish authorities. A cruel fate seems to overtake every effort of the United States to give Germany these necessary commodities.

      Among the suspicious articles discovered at the Bulgarian Consulate in Salonika was a large stock of red brassards. But the inference that they belonged to members of the British V.T.C., who were determined to fight for the enemy rather than not fight at all, is certainly premature.

      Several inmates of the Swansea workhouse, having been told that margarine was to be served out instead of butter, returned their portions, only to discover that it was butter after all. As similar incidents have occurred in many other establishments it is suggested that margarine should in future be dyed scarlet or blue in order to prevent a repetition of these embarrassing contretemps.

      Sir John Simon, in the debate on the Compulsion Bill, said that the alleged 650,000 slackers were arrived at by subtracting two figures from one another. Everyone must agree with him that if that was the method employed the result would be negligible.

      In a tram-car in a Northern city, as the girl-conductor went round for fares, a nut tried to take a rise out of her by asking for a ticket to Gallipoli. She charged him for the full length of the tram journey, and as soon as the tram arrived at a recruiting office she rang the bell and said, You change here, Sir, for Gallipoli.

      The Kaiser thinks it very mean of the British Government to turn his Corfu palace into a hospital. His submarine commanders are now wondering how to shell the inmates without damaging their master's property.

      The Militant Suffragette who some years ago damaged the Velasquez Venus with an axe has just published a novel, of which the hero is a plumber who thought he was a poet. It ought to be called The Burst Pipe, but isn't.

      Women are now employed on some of the railways in the North. A traveller recently had two Tommies for fellow-passengers. They related that they had every week to take a long slow duty journey which was the limit; but lately it had taken on a different aspect, for "now, said Tommy, when you get too bored you just hop out and kiss the porter."

      Extract from a letter written to a loved one from the Front:—

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