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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 - Archive Classics

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 30, 1919

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 156, APRIL 30, 1919***

      E-text prepared by Malcolm Farmer, Carla Kruger,

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 156.

      April 30, 1919.

      CHARIVARIA.

      An alarming rumour is going the rounds to the effect that Printing House Square refuses to accept any responsibility for the findings of the Peace Conference.

      Mystery, says a news item, surrounds the purchase of fifty retail fish shops in and about London. The Athenaeum Club is full of the wildest rumours.

      The statement of the Allied Food Commission, that there are more sheep in Germany to-day than in 1914, has come as a surprise to those who imagined that the loud bleating noise was chiefly Herr SCHEIDEMANN.

      Get your muzzle now! says The Daily Mail. It is felt, however, that the PRIME MINISTER scored a distinct hit by saying it first.

      There is absolutely no reason, says a Health Culture writer, why Members of Parliament should not live to be one hundred. We think we could find a reason if we were pressed.

      To-morrow a man in the North of England is to celebrate his hundredth birthday. He will be the youngest centenarian in the country.

      At Ealing it appears that a rabid dog dashed into a pork butcher's shop and snapped at a sausage. The sausage was immediately shot.

      The War Office, says a contemporary, is to have another storey built. In order that the work shall not cause any sleepless days it is to be undertaken by night.

      It is reported that a burglar who has been drawing unemployment pay has decided to return to work.

      The New Zealand Government has decided to check the introduction of influenza, and every passenger arriving there is to be examined. All germs not declared are liable to be confiscated by the Customs.

      Nearly all the Bank Holiday visitors to Hampstead Heath, it is stated, chose a silver-mounted bridge-marker in preference to nuts.

      Two days before his wedding a man at Uxbridge was summoned to Wales by his wife for desertion. It is said that his second wedding went off quietly.

      It is understood that the Home Office does not propose to re-arrest DE VALERA. The official view is that in future the Irish must provide their own entertainment.

      We hear that all imprisoned Sinn Feiners have been instructed to give a day's notice in future before escaping, so that nobody shall do it out of his proper turn.

      Citizens of Clarkson, Washington, U.S.A., have appealed to the Government to protect them against a plague of frogs. The Federal authorities have informed the Press that these insidious attempts to distract the Government from its Prohibition programme must not be taken seriously.

      From an American newspaper we gather that a New York plutocrat has by his will cut his wife off with twelve million dollars.

      Is the Kaiser Highly Strung? asks a weekly paper headline. We shall be able to answer this question a little later.

      The report that an early bather was seen executing the Jazz-dance on the beach at Ventnor on Easter Monday seems to have some foundation. It appears that his partner was a large crab with well-developed claws.

      We hear that visitors at a well-known London hotel, who have patiently borne the extension of the gratuity nuisance for a considerable time, now take exception to the notice, Please tip the basin, which has been prominently placed in the lavatory.

      On many golf-links nowadays the caddies are expected to keep count of the number of strokes taken for each hole. One beginner whom we know is seriously thinking of employing a chartered accountant for this purpose.

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      People who think they have heard the cuckoo before the first of May, declares a well-known ornithologist, are usually the victims of young practical jokers. The conspicuous barring of the bird's plumage should, however, make any real confusion impossible.

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