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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, Volume 156, 26 March 1919, by Various

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      Title: Punch, Volume 156, 26 March 1919

      Author: Various

      Release Date: February 25, 2004 [EBook #11284]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, VOLUME 156, 26 MARCH 1919 ***

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      Proofreading Team.

      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 156.

      March 26, 1919.

      CHARIVARIA

      .

      WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN is reported to be busy sawing trees. Some declare that his energy is due to an hallucination that they are German generals. Others say the whole story is a clumsy attempt to discredit him with the Labour party.

      Dublin Corporation has decided to increase its revenue by eight thousand pounds by raising the charge on water. Citizens are urged to put patriotism before prejudice and give the stuff a trial.

      The inconveniences that attend influenza reached their climax a few days ago when an occupant of a crowded tube train blew the nose of the man next to him in mistake for his own.

      The beggar who has been going about telling a pitiful story of being wounded by a trench-mortar during the Jutland battle is now regarded by the police as an impostor.

      A defendant in a County Court case at Liverpool last week stated in his evidence that he had been on the telephone for the last twenty years. In fairness to the Postal authorities he should have admitted that it was a trunk call.

      Foreman (late R.S.M.). "'ERE! YOU AIN'T IN THE ARMY NOW. THERE'S NO CALL FOR YOU TO KEEP A WATCH ON THE RHINE."

      A lady-correspondent, writing to a daily paper, laments the fact that the War has changed a great many husbands. Surely the wife who receives the wrong husband can get some sort of redress from the War Office.

      All the main-line railways are to be electrified, Sir ERIC GEDDES told the House of Commons. Meanwhile he has successfully electrified all the old buffers.

      A number of women are doing good work as mates on Medway sailing barges. The denial of the report that one of them recently looked at a Wapping policeman for five minutes on end without once repeating herself may be ascribed to professional jealousy.

      The small car, says a trade contemporary, has come to stop. We can well believe it. It is an old habit.

      It has been discovered that the new Education Act, which prohibits boys under twelve being worked for more than two hours on Sunday, may apply to choir-boys. A Commission, we understand, is to be called upon to decide finally whether they are really boys or just little demons.

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