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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891And with these strictly nautical expressions, two of Mr. Punch's Own entered the Royal Naval Exhibition, which now occupies the larger portion of the grounds of the Military Hospital, Chelsea. That so popular a show...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891A Room tastefully filled with cheap Art-furniture. Gimcracks in an tagre; a festoon of chenille monkeys hanging from the gaselier. Japanese fans, skeletons, cotton-wool spiders, frogs, and lizards, scattered everywhere about. Drain-pipes with tall dyed...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891[The MS. of this remarkable novel was tied round with scarlet ribbons, and arrived in a case which had been once used for the packing of bottles of rum, or some other potent spirit. It...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891SOUND AND SAFE.We hear that Mr. W.H. GRIFFITHS is to be the new Lessee of the Shaftesbury. Years ago, to the popular inquiry, "Who's GRIFFITHS?" there was but one answer, "The Safe Man." Good omen...
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Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891SCENEThe Park, near Cumberland Gate, on almost any fine afternoon. Behind the rails separating the turf from the paths, Orators, Preachers, and Reciters are holding forth, for the delectation of small groups, who are mostly...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891Instead of the Sub-Kensington Gardens Railway scheme as proposed, why not a Sub-Serpentine Line? Start it from the South Kensington Station, District-cum-Metropolitan system, run it with one station well-underground in the middle of Exhibition Road,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891["This," writes the Author, "is one of my best and freshest, although on a moderate computation it must be my thousand and first, or so. But I have really lost count. Still it's grand to...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891It is customary for the self-righteous moralists who puff themselves into a state of Jingo complacency over the failings of foreign nations, to declare with considerable unction that the domestic hearth, which every Frenchman habitually...
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Punch, or the London CharivariPunch, or the London Charivari - The Christmas Number, 1890The Old Year was fast nearing its close, the night was clear and starry, and Father Time, from the top of his observatory tower, was taking a last look round. "I am not for an...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891We will ask you, reader, this week, to compel your fancy to take a further flight, and kindly imagine yourself a worthy merchant, who has exchanged the turmoil of City-life for the elegant leisure of...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891SCENEMain Thoroughfare near Hyde Park. Time 8 P.M. Nothing visible anywhere, but very much audible; horses slipping and plunging, wheels grinding, crashes, jolts, and English as she is spoke on such occasions. Mrs. Flusters (who...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891We will assume, simply for the purposes of this argument, that you, reader, are an innocent-minded elderly lady, and a regular subscriber to the Local Circulating Library. You are sitting by your comfortable fireside, knitting...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891Mrs. G.-G. I see that the proprietors of All Sorts are going to follow the American example, and offer a prize of 20 to the wife who makes out the best case for her husband...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891An Over-heated Matron (to her Husband). Well, they don't give you much room in 'ere, I must say. Still, we done better than I expected, after all that crushing. I thought my ribs was gone...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 10, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 10, 1891POLITE JUDGMENT.A correspondence has been going on in the St. James's Gazette as to what six Gentlemen seated in a first class railway carriage ought to do if a Lady insists on thrusting herself upon...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 27, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 27, 1890The origin of the phrase, Le Coup de Jarnac, is interesting, and the story is well told by Mr. MACDOWALL in Macmillan's Magazine. Good, this, for "The Two Macs." In The Argosy, edited by Mr....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 1, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 1, 1890Those who live much in the society of the very middle-aged, hear from them loud and frequent complaints of the decay of courtesy and the general deterioration, both of manners and of habits, observable in...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 20, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 20, 1890SCENEA Riding-school, on a raw chilly afternoon. The gas is lighted, but does not lend much cheerfulness to the interior, which is bare and bleak, and pervaded by a bluish haze. Members of the Class...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 13, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 13, 1890(By WATER DECANT, Author of "Chaplin off his Feet," "All Sorts of Editions for Men," "The Nuns in Dilemma," "The Cream he Tried," "Blue-the-Money Naughty-boy," "The Silver Gutter-Snipe," "All for a Farden Fare," "The Roley...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891["Here you are, my hearty," writes the Author, "this is a regular briny ocean story, all storms and thunderclaps and sails and rigging and soaring masts and bellying sails. How about 'avast heaving' and 'shiver...
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