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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916In a description of Lord Kitchener's home at Broome Park we read that on the way there one passes a kind of crater known by the rustics as "Old England's Hole." And a little farther...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916We were the only occupants of a compartment in a L. & N. W. R. carriage. I had been too absorbed till then to notice his appearance, but I now observed that he had rather...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914"I come," said Mr. Lloyd George last week, "from a farming stock right down from the Flood. The first thing a farmer wants is to be secure." It was of course during the Flood that...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914According to The Express the South African police discovered an elaborate plot for kidnapping all the Ministers as a preliminary to declaring a Labour Republic. In Labour circles, however, it is declared that the scheme...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914Lord Howard de Walden is starting a movement with the admirable object of reinvigorating the drama in Wales by forming a travelling troupe of first-rate actors. It is rumoured that an option has already been...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893First W. I. M. (contemptuously). Yes, that's always the way with these Governments. They all talk mighty big at the beginning of the Session, and then, at the end, they've done nothing, absolutely nothing; at...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893"I do not wish to make a joke," Mr. Inderwick, Q.C., is reported to have observed in the course of examining the plaintiff in a divorce case, but, in spite of this pathetic announcement, which...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916According to the Correspondent of The Daily Mail who described the festivities at Nish, the King of Bulgaria "has a curious duck-like waddle." This is believed to be the result of his effort to do...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893["Mr. Henry Blackburn, lecturing at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus, said English people were not an artistic nation, and instead of getting better, they appeared to be rapidly getting worse. The author of the present...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890Last week Mr. Punch asked, "Oh, where, and oh where, is The Public Prosecutor?" and he has received an answer. It appears that the official has been recently engaged (his letter is dated the 30th...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 11, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 11, 1893[Mr. Gladstone (replying to Mr. Johnston, of Ballykilbeg) announced that no recommendation had been submitted to Her Majesty upon the subject of the succession to the office of Poet Laureate, and that there was no...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893Teacher. And now we come to the Battle of Trafalgar, which was won by Nelson in the early part of the present century. As it is my object to increase your patriotism, I may tell...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890SceneTheatre Royal, Blankbury, on the first night of the performance of the well-known Comedy of "Heads or Tails?" by the "Thespian Perambulators." Time, 7:50 P.M. A "brilliant and fashionable assemblage" is gradually filling the house....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892SceneA Railway-carriage in a suburban morning train to London. There are four Passengers, two of whom are well-informed men, while the third is an inquirer, and the fourth an average man. They travel up to...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920The Daily Mail Prize Hat has now been chosen, though it is not yet definitely decided whether the wearing of it will be made compulsory. If it is, we understand that Mr. Winston Churchill will...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892I may assume, that after the terrible example given in my last chapter, you have firmly made up your mind never on any account to take service in the great army of bores. But this...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893Of the many varieties of keeper, I propose, at present, to consider only the average sort of keeper, who looks after a shooting, comprising partridges, pheasants, hares, and rabbits, in an English county. Now it...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893First Well-Informed Man (reading his paper). Oh, I say, dash it, this'll never do. Here's this young Khedive of Egypt kicking up a shine, and dismissing British Ministers. We can't have that, you know. First...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920No sooner had the League of Nations met at Geneva than news came of the pending retirement of Mr. Charlie Chaplin. We never seem to be able to keep more than one Great Idea going...
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The Jest BookThe Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and SayingsThe Compiler of this new Jest Book is desirous to make known that it is composed mainly of old jokes,some older than Joe Miller himself,with a liberal sprinkling of new jests gathered from books and hearsay....
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