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Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892SIR,The proposal to extend the Cab Radius to five miles from Charing Cross is good in its way, but it does not go far enough. My idea is that the cheap cab-fare should include any...
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Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892SCENEA Private Room in a well-known Dining Hotel. Eminent Politicians discussing "shop" over their walnuts before dispersing for the Christmas holidays. First Eminent Politician. I say that recent speech of yours at Skegness was a...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 19, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 19, 1891The Baron's Assistants say that of the Christmas works published by Messrs. HUTCHINSON & CO. they can and do recommend The Children of Wilton Chase by L.J. MEAD, to which they accord their mead of...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892"Hi-tiddley-hi-ti; or, I'm All Right" is heard, "all over the place," as light sleepers and studious dwellers in quiet streets are too well aware. Why should it not be enlisted in the service of Apollo...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891My heart positively warms to you as I write. At this precise moment I can think of a hundred different things that I ought to be doing. For instance, I have not written to TOM,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919The report that demobilisation will be completed by March 31st is now officially denied. There would appear to be something in the rumour that the Demobilisation Staff have expressed the hope of dying in harness....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891Thursday, April 16.On looking through my book I find that I am now a member of ten Billsbury Cricket Clubs, to most of which I am a Vice-President. Not bad, considering that my average in...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 10, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 10, 1917The effect of the curtailed train-service throughout the country is already observable. On certain sections of one of our Southern lines there are no trains running except those which started prior to January 1st. The...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891Imagine my feelings when I read the following letter. It lay quite innocently on my breakfast-table in a heap of others. It was stamped in the ordinary way, post-marked in the ordinary way, and addressed...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891KING COLE, although described as a "merry old soul," was in reality a tyrant. He had a number of subjects who used to work underground, and their labour was to bring to the surface the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917"They know nothing about the War in Greenland," said M. DANGAARD IENSEN to a contemporary, and now the Intelligence Department is wondering whether it didn't perhaps choose the wrong colour after all for its tabs....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891I think I can see you smirking and posturing before the abstract mirror, which is your constant companion. It pleases you, no doubt, to think that anybody should pay you the compliment of making you...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891We learn by telegraph from Berlin that some uneasiness exists in that capital owing to demonstrations made by the photographists and artists in plaster-of-Paris, who have been accustomed to reproduce likenesses and busts of His...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891[Lord HAWKE's team of Cricketers were beaten at Manheim by the Philadelphians by eight wickets whereat the Philadelphia Ledger cockadoodles considerably. The Britishers, however, won the return match somewhat easily.] Wanted, a few good extra...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891SCENEThe German Exhibition, near an ingenious machine constructed to reveal the character and future of a person according to the colour of his or her hair, for the small consideration of one penny. A party...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891"Keep up the Christopher!" a recommendation adapted urbi et orbi which, quoting Mr. Puff, our HENRY when speaking at Canterbury ought to have given after the unveiling of KIT MARLOWE's statue. We hope that the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891Podbury (reading aloud, with comments). "For really to conceive the infinite divisibility of matter is mentally to follow out the divisions to infinity, and to do this would require infinite time." You're right there, old...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891["The Anthropoid apes, of which there was recently such a representative series in the Zoo, have dwindled sadly in numbers this year. The lamented decease of 'Sally' was referred to a few weeks ago; we...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917"Time to deal finally with Tino," announced an evening paper last week, thereby doing a great deal to allay a disquieting impression that the matter was to be left to eternity. "KING CONSTANTINE," says the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891Dr. Andrew Wilson (in "Science Jottings," in the Illustrated London News) dares disparage Golf "as an ideal game for young men," venturing to advocate the preferential claims of fogeyish Cricket, and even of futile Lawn...
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