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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890At intervals of a few years the torpor of London Society is stirred by the carefully disseminated intelligence that a new planet has begun to twinkle in the firmament of fashion, and the telescopes of...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 [Following the brilliant success of Miss Fawcett at Cambridge, Mlle. Belcesco, a Roumanian lady, took her degree to-day as Docteur en Droit. Like Miss Fawcett, she obtained the highest place at the examination for...
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Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93. August 27, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93. August 27, 1887"Is it possible that Mr. Gladstone, not content with having allied himself with the Parnellites, or with having endeavoured to sow jealousies between the component parts of the United Kingdom, is at last endeavouring to...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 "Dr. Grace, who seemed to forget his lameness, played with great vigour and dash, and his cuts and drives possessed all their old brilliancy."The Times, on the exciting finish in the Cricket Match between...
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Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 June 7, 1890Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 June 7, 1890Visitors ascending staircase, full of enthusiasm and energetic determination not to miss a single Picture, encounter people descending in various stages of mental and physical exhaustion. At the turnstiles two Friends meet unexpectedly; both being...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890 The line of carriages bound for Buckingham Palace is moving by slow stages down the Drive. A curious but not uncritical crowd, consisting largely of females, peer into the carriages as they pass, and...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 20, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 20, 1887.Mr. Punch by some accident was unable to be present at the "Eisteddfod Genhedlaethol y Cymry," and therefore could not take part in the competitions at the Albert Hall. For the sake of the other...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887A natural anxiety that his pupils should be furnished with as complete a repertory as possible, has prompted Mr. Punch to command one of his spare Poets to knock off a little dramatic piece founded...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887.No Amateur Reciter can consider himself fully equipped for the Drawing-room or Platform unless he is furnished with at least one poem in dialect, and Mr. Punch has accordingly commissioned from his Poet a recitation...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887Now that girls have proved themselves capable of earning the highest University honours, why should women remain debarred of University degrees? If any senatorial difficulty precludes the removal of that ridiculous injustice, a girl forbidden...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 9, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 9, 1887.I went on Saturday to hear the three operatic novelties so liberally provided for us on the same night by Messrs. Mapleson, Lago and Harris. I do not mix my liquors, and I endeavour, as...
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Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853)Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853)On Christmas Eve, Mr. Punch, on the strengthor, rather, lengthof a Message from President Pierce, visited her Majesty Queen Mab. He was received by a most courteous Dream-in-Waiting, who introduced him through the Gate of Horn, whence, as Colonel...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920Annoyed by a small boy who was sucking sweets and laughing a parson recently stopped in the middle of his sermon and refused to go on with it. We are informed that the boy in...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920"If it is necessary to strengthen the hands of the military in Ireland," said Mr. Lloyd George, "the Government will certainly do so." Our own view is that they should be protected even if it...
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The Tatler, Volume 3The Tatler, Volume 3 Transcriber's Note: This text contains Greek text. If the Greek symbols do not display properly your browser may not have a compatible font. All Greek words will display a transliteration on mouse-over. Table of Contents not present in original and...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920A camera capable of photographing the most rapid moving objects in the world is the latest invention of an American. There is some talk of his trying to photograph a bricklayer whizzing along at his...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920The promoters of the Milk and Dairies Bill hope to ensure clean milk for the public. They seem to have thought out an improvement on the present system by which certain dairymen are in the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890[The Report of the Sweating Committee says that "the inefficiency of many of the lower class of workers, early marriages, and the tendency of the residuum of the population in large towns to form a...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920A peculiar incident is reported from a large town in the South of England. It appears that one day last week a bricklayer lost count of the number of bricks he had laid, with the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 17, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 17, 1890.My Dear Editor,Whilst you were feasting in Burlington House amongst the Pictures and the Royal Academicians, I was seated in the Stalls of the St. James's Theatre, lost in astonishment (certainly not in admiration, although...
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