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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887Royat Improved.I have said Royat ought to be rebuilt. The Grand Hotel is of a sort of Doll's House order of architecture, splendid front, no depth to speak of, and built on so steep an...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914Sir Robert Lorimer has been appointed architect for the restoration of Whitekirk church, East Lothian, which was burnt down by Suffragettes last February. There is a feeling among the militants that, since it is owing...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Signor Ulvi, the inventor of F rays. He is said to have eloped from Florence with an Admirals daughter. This was not discovered until Signor Ulvi...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890An Unsatisfactory Christmas Present.We can well understand and sympathise with you in your disappointment on discovering that you had been deceived as to the amount of intelligence possessed by the Learned Pig that you had...
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Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890And though even Africa has considerably changed since the year of grace 1497, when "daring Gama" went "incessant labouring round the stormy Cape," Mr. Punch thought of that great gloom-shrouded Equatorial Forest and its secular...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914"When the King and Queen visit Nottinghamshire as the guests of the Duke and Duchess of Portland at Welbeck, three representative colliery owners and four working miners will," we read, "be presented to their Majesties...
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Faces and PlacesFaces and Places To J.R. Robinson, Editor and Manager of the "Daily News", at whose suggestion some of these articles were written, they are in their collected form inscribed, with sincere regard, by an old friend and colleague. I made the acquaintance of Colonel...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 19, 1920Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 19, 1920A Swedish scientist has invented a new building material called sylvenselosit. It is said to cost one-fifth the price of the building material in use in this country, which is known to the trade as...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914The attack on M. Ribot's Ministry in the matter of the Three Years' Service was led in the Chamber by three quite undistinguished Socialists; and the contest was described succinctly by an unsympathetic onlooker as...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887A very interesting article appears in the current number of the Fortnightly Magazine, in which the favourite "quotations" of many celebrated persons are introduced with much effect. Always ready to take a hint, Mr. Punch...
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Baboo Jabberjee, B.ABaboo Jabberjee, B.A.Sir, I am an able B.A. of a respectable Indian University, now in this country for purposes of being crammed through Inns of Court and Law Exam., and rendering myself a completely fledged Pleader or Barrister in the Native Bar of the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914Captain Fort, a French army airman from Chalons, flew over the German frontier, last week, by mistake, and alighted in Lorraine, but flew back again before the German police arrived. We think he should have...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914Meanwhile it looks as if the Socialist ideal of driving our landed gentry into the workhouse is already being realised. The Abergavenny Board of Guardians, we read, has decided to accept an offer by Lord...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914It is comforting to know that we need not yet despair of human nature. Even the most abandoned politician may have one redeeming quality. For example, The Express tells us that Mr. Winston Churchill is...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914The discovery of gold particles in a duck's gizzard has, we are told, caused a rush of mining prospectors to Liberty Township, Ohio. It is expected that the duck will shortly be floated as a...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914The presence of some ladies on the Holyhead links disturbed Mr. Lloyd George to such an extent, one day last week, that he foozled a shot, and it is reported that the Government is at last contemplating...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893From the Common-place Book of The O'Wilde.The play? Oh, the play be zephyr'd! The play is not the thing. In other words, the play is nothing. Point is to prepare immense assortment of entirely irrelevant...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893Two gentlemen of artistic and literary attainments, having studied the romances of Victor Hugo for the sake of being inspired by that Grand Old Master's style, determined to essay a "thriller" of most tragic type....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914Art circles continue to seethe with indignation over the National Gallery outrage. Even the Post-Impressionists have now no sympathy with the Suffragettes, for they realise that, while in this instance it was only a Velasquez...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914There are warm days in London when even a window-box fails to charm, and one longs for the more open spaces of the country. Besides, one wants to see how the other flowers are getting on. It...
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