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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21We understand that the Frenchman who lost his temper so completely during a duel with pistols that he threatened to shoot his opponent will be suspended from taking part in similar encounters for the next six months....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892"I dreamed," said the Scotch Professor, "that I was struggling for dear life with a monstrous reptile, whose scaly coils wound about my body, while the extremity of his own was lost in the distance....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21It appears that Irish criminals may be divided into three classes (a) The ones you can't catch; (b) The ones you have caught but can't convict; (c) The ones you have convicted but can't keep in prison....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04Cat skins are advertised for in Essex. A suburban resident writes to say he has a few brace on his garden wall each night, if the advertiser is prepared to entice the cats from inside them. According...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917The favourite reading of the Sultan of Turkey is said to be criminal literature. A gift-book in the shape of a new Life of the Kaiser is about to be despatched to him. During the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14The Premier, says a contemporary, has become greatly attached to a white terrier puppy that he brought with him from Colwyn Bay. The report that it has been taught to run after its own tail by Mr....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892A Philosopher has deigned to address to me a letter. "Sir," writes my venerable correspondent, "I have been reading your open letters to Abstractions with some interest. You will, however, perhaps permit me to observe...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892Bulger was no cricketer, no tennis-player, no sportsman, in fact. But his Doctor recommended exercise and fresh air. "And I'm thinking, Sir," he added, "that you cannot do better than just take yourself down to...
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Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920."Nobody knows," says a Berlin message, "how near the Kapp counter-revolution came to being a success." A kind word from Commander Kenworthy, it is believed, would have made all the difference. It is reported that...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 12, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 12, 1892On either side of the circular Race-course, with its revolving metal horses, is a Green Table, divided into numbered squares, around which the Players, who are mostly English, are sitting or standing. A Croupier with...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917Count Tisza has declared his intention of going to the Front for the duration of the War. He denies, however, that he caught the idea from Mr. Winston Churchill. The Germans announced that Chrisy was...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892LUNCH (continued).Perhaps the best piece of advice that I can give you, my young friend, is thatfor conversational purposesyou should make a careful study of the natures and temperaments of your companions. Watch their little...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917It is rumoured that the Press campaign against young men of military age engaged in Government offices is causing some of them many sleepless days. A correspondent writes to an evening paper to say that...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920Prince Albert Joachim, it appears, did not take part in the attack on a French officer at the Hotel Adlon, but only gave the signal. Always the little Hohenzollern! A new method of stopping an...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892ACT I. SCENE 2.Leonora's confidant evidently alive to the responsibilities of her position. Watch her, for example, when her Mistress is about to confide to her ear the dawn of her passion for Manrico. She...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892CURRAN, the celebrated Irish Patriot, was a man of intense wit and humour. On one occasion he was discussing with RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN the possibility of combining the interests of the two countries under one...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917Mr. William Watson describes his new book of verse, The Man Who Saw, as "an intermittent commentary on the main developments and some of the collateral phenomena of the War." People are already asking, "Why...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892Wy, there's thirty-two Springs in the Bog Fielda place like a graveyard gone wrong Miss Golightly (the Friend of the Family, and to whom Sir Percy (the elder) has proposed). "OF COURSE I'M AWFULLY OBLIGED,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891(Afrikander Version of the great Breitmann Ballad, penned, "more in sorrow than in anger," by a "Deutscher" resident in the distant regions where the Correspondent of the "Daily Graphic" is, like der Herr Breitmann himself,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892SCENEA Public Hall in a provincial town. The Hypnotista tall, graceful, and handsome young man, in well-fitting evening clotheshas already succeeded in putting most of his subjects to sleep, and is going round and inspecting...
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