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Our Artist in CubaOur Artist in Cuba - Fifty drawings on wood. Leaves from the Sketch-book of a traveler, During the Winter of 1864-5.WITH man the Artillery band in the Plaza des Armasassisting with domino and false nose at the masquerades in the Tacon Theatrelounging with ices...
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Humour of the NorthHumour of the North Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour. It would include the productions of such acknowledged humorists as Thomas Chandler Haliburton and George Thomas...
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Behind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human KnowledgeBehind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human KnowledgeTHE curtain rises, disclosing the ushers of the theater still moving up and down the aisles. Cries of "Program!" "Program!" are heard. There is a buzz of brilliant conversation, illuminated with flashes of opera glasses and...
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Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the MicroscopeSkookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the MicroscopeIt is more difficult to sell a good book by a new author than it is to sell a poor one by a popular author, because the good book by the new author must make its...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 21, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 21, 1919Several correspondents have written to The Daily Express asking whether it is not unlucky to be married on a Friday. Our own experience is that it doesn't make much difference which day it is. We...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919"Where Stands Germany To-day?" asks a headline. She doesn't. At least Count BROCKDORFF-RANTZAU kept his seat while addressing the Peace Conference. This discourtesy however need not be taken too seriously. It is pointed out that...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919.Since the Muzzling Order, says a weekly paper, fewer postmen in the West End have been bitten by dogs. We are asked by the Dogs' Trade Union to point out that this is not due...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917.The Imperial aspirations of KING FERDINAND are discussed by a Frankfort paper in an article entitled "What Bulgaria wants." Significantly enough the ground covered is almost identical with the subject-matter of an unpublished article of...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919.A Carmarthen man has been fined 12s. 6d. for shooting an owl in mistake for a pigeon. Defendant pleaded that in omitting to sound its hooter the owl was guilty of contributory negligence. After knocking...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890The Baron has read OSCAR WILDE'S Wildest and Oscarest work, called Dorian Gray, a weird sensational romance, complete in one number of Lippincott's Magazine. The Baron, recommends anybody who revels in diablerie, to begin it...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917"No amount of War Office approval will make hens lay," says The Weekly Dispatch. These continuous efforts to shake our confidence in the men entrusted with the conduct of the War can only be regarded...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919President WILSON is stated to have played several keen games of "shuffle-board" on the George Washington. As it is an open secret that Lord ROBERT CECIL has been polishing up his "shove-halfpenny" in the billiard-room...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890An Unreasonable Old Lady (arriving breathless, with her grandson and niece). This'll be the place the balloon goes up from, I wouldn't miss it for anything! Put the child up on that bench, MARIA; we'll...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 propos, a Woking butcher was fined last week for being thirty-two thousand coupons short. The report that he has since received a letter of condolence from Mr. LLOYD GEORGE is not confirmed. A food...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919There is no truth in the rumour that among the many new performances of Hamlet which are promised there will be one in aid of the fund for brightening the lives of the clergy, with...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919A correspondent, complaining of the tiny flats in London, states that he is a trombone-player, and every time he wants to get the lowest note he has to go out on to the landing. In...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890We understand that careful observers have noted a considerable amount of disturbance in the House of Commons during the past three weeks. Various reasons have, as usual, been advanced to account for this phenomenon, one...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919A man has written to the papers offering to buy five thousand pounds of Joy Loan if the Government will get him a case of whisky. The simple fellow does not seem to realise that...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917Not one of the morning papers advocated the appointment of Sir Eric Geddes to be First Lord of the Admiralty. A big scoop this for the Government. A foolish rumour is going the rounds to...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919The heat was so oppressive in London the other day that a taxi-driver at Euston Station was seen to go up to a pedestrian and ask him if he could do with a ride. He...
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