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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 - Various Various

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      March 21, 1917, by Various

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      Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917

      Author: Various

      Release Date: December 25, 2004 [EBook #14455]

      Language: English

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 152.

      March 21st, 1917.

      CHARIVARIA.

      There is a convict at Pentonville who is said to be exactly like the KAISER. He feels that in view of the great inconvenience he has suffered it is the KAISER'S duty at once to remove his moustache or grow side whiskers.

      The KAISER is in a bit of a hole. Attending a special service for the success of the War, he is reported to have "sung the De Profundis at the top of his voice." All the rest of him, including the lower part of his voice, seems to have been submerged.

      The revolutionary spirit in Germany seems to have extended to the vegetable kingdom. In a riot at Barmen which occurred recently the chief of police was seriously wounded by a turnip.

      The Berliner Tageblatt states that for appearing at a private concert a famous opera singer has been paid in food, including sixty eggs. The custom is not unknown to some of our own music-hall artistes, who however are usually more than content with receiving the bird.

      According to a Globe report Mr. CHARLES GULLIVER is giving at the Palladium a programme of real entertainers. Enterprise and originality are always to be commended in a manager.

      A telegram from Mexico City announces that General CARRANZA has been elected President of the Mexican Republic. It is expected that a full list of the casualties will be published shortly.

      A Melbourne despatch states that Mr. HUGHES has been offered thirty-four seats in the forthcoming elections. The Opposition, it is understood, has expressed its willingness to allow Mr. HUGHES to occupy all thirty-four.

      So effective has been the attempt to reduce circulation that we are not surprised to find a provincial paper advertising in The Daily Telegraph for A Reader.

      There is no monument more enduring than brass, writes Mr. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, War Correspondent. The general feeling, however, is that there is a kind of brass that is beyond enduring.

      The idea of blaming Queen Elizabeth for the Dardanelles fiasco is so entirely satisfactory to all parties concerned that it is being freely asked why the Commission couldn't have thought of that itself.

      The new order prohibiting newspapers from printing contents bills is bearing hardly in certain quarters, and it is rumoured that at least one sensational contemporary has offered to forgo publishing itself in return for the privilege of selling its posters.

      By order of the General Officer Commanding the London District the Grafton Galleries have been placed out of bounds. Or, as they say in the best War-time dancing circles, out of leaps and bounds.

      PROGRESS.

      Kensington Council states that 300,000 tons of food are consumed annually by thousands of dogs which serve no useful purpose. The dogs, on the other hand, are asking what would become of the nation's womanhood if there were no dogs to take it out for exercise in the afternoon.

      The Government, it appears, is determined to keep Charing Cross Railway Station on the North side of the river. All the objections to the present site, they point out, are easily outweighed by its proximity to the National Gallery.

      At Highgate, says a news item, a man named YELLS was fined for having in his possession pork which was not sound. It was suggested that defendant had held back the squeal for his own purposes.

      An applicant recently

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