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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146,

      February 25, 1914, by Various

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914

      Author: Various

      Release Date: December 7, 2007 [EBook #23760]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH ***

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      Transcriber's Note: Typo Professsor changed to Professor in the last paragraph of the last page. Underlining was used to indicate where text appeared upside down in the original.

      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      VOL. 146.

      FEBRUARY 25, 1914.

      CLOSE OF THE COURSING SEASON.

      CHARIVARIA.

      The German Crown Prince has the mumps. It seems that his Imperial Father was not consulted in the matter beforehand, and further domestic differences are anticipated.

      King Sisovath of Cambodia, we learn from Le Petit Journal, was so pleased with a white elephant sent him by the Governor-General of French Indo-China that he has raised the animal—a fine female—to the dignity of a Princess. The news soon got about, and considerable jealousy is felt at our Zoo, where there is not so much as even a baronet among the inmates.

      General von Plettenburgh, commanding the Prussian Guards Corps, has issued a decree against the wearing of the so-called tooth-brush moustache, pointing out that such an appendage is unsuitable for a Prussian soldier and not consonant with the German national character. The implication is very unpleasant.

      It is generally reported, says a contemporary, that Sir Edward Grey speaks no German, and French very badly. M. Venizelos, the Greek Prime Minister, declared that he had the greatest difficulty in understanding Sir Edward's French. As a matter of fact a little bird tells us that on this occasion our Foreign Secretary was speaking Greek.

      Mr. Asquith, said The Times, in a massage to the Liberal candidate for South Bucks, emphasizes the prime importance of the Irish issue. There is, of course, nothing like massage for rubbing things in.

      Herr Ballin, head of the Hamburg-American Line, and Herr Heineken, head of the rival North-German Lloyd Company, came to London last week, and are said to have concluded peace in the Atlantic rate war. We understand that the arrangement is to be known as the Pool of London.

      The authorities at Barotse, The Globe tells us, have put a price on the heads of all lions there. One can picture the mean sportsman, with a pair of field-glasses, picking out the cheapest before firing.

      61,000 Territorials Short.

      Daily Mail.

      Still, it is pretty generally recognised now that a small man may make every bit as good a soldier as a big one, and, besides, there is always less of him to hit.

      Among the temporary teachers appointed to carry on schools in Herefordshire during the teachers' strike was an asylum attendant. This confirms the report that many of the children were mad at finding that the schools did not close in consequence of the strike.

      It is denied that the name of the Philharmonic Hall, where Mr. Ponting's moving pictures of the Antarctic Expedition are being shown, is to be changed to the Philmharmonic Hall.

      Richard Strauss's new work, dealing with the story, of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, is to be produced shortly in Paris. A musical play version of it, entitled After the Man, may be looked for here.

      From Rome comes the news that a young man who was being examined in a hospital there has been found to have two separate stomachs. This announcement that the ideal man has at last been evolved has caused the greatest excitement here in Corporation circles.

      "LYCEUM CLUB.

      100 years of peace."

      Daily Telegraph.

      Surely a record for a lady's club?

      "Change of Name.

      from

      Jacob Galba Iwushuku-Bright

      to

      Galba Iwuchuku Olukotun."

      Sierra Leone Weekly News.

      We notice no improvement.

      Commercial Candour.

      Notice in a shop window at Reading:

      Try ——'s Sausages: none like 'em.

      CIVIL WAR ESTIMATES.

      (A Ministerial Apology.)

      Your talk is vanity, you who lightly vouch

      That we, indifferent to the country's call, shun

      A crisis under which the People crouch

      Like Damocles beneath the pendent falchion;

      That from our minds, incredibly deluded,

      Ulster is still excluded.

      It is not so. All day (between our meals)

      We find this topic really most attractive;

      In watches of the night it often steals

      Into our waking dreams, and keeps us active,

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