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Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 100. June 13, 1891. VOCES POPULI. AT A MUSIC HALL. SCENE–_The Auditorium of a Music Hall, the patrons of which are respectable, but in no sense “smart.” The occupants of the higher-priced seats appear to have dropped

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 161. April 9, 1919. CHARIVARIA. A Brass-hat employed at the Air Ministry recently requested that his salary might be reduced on the ground that there was now very little work for him to do. As no other

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. May 28, 1919. * * * * * CHARIVARIA. It was the pig, says an eminent Danish economist, that lost Germany the War. His omission to specify which pig seems almost certain to provoke further recriminations

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. May 21, 1919. CHARIVARIA. “We thought it was to be a _Peace_ Conference,” remarks the _Berliner Tageblatt_ sadly. Instead of which it turned out to be another Diet of Worms. *** “Wanted a Dock Examiner,” says

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. May 14, 1919. CHARIVARIA. “Where Stands Germany To-day?” asks a headline. She doesn’t. At least Count BROCKDORFF-RANTZAU kept his seat while addressing the Peace Conference. This discourtesy however need not be taken too seriously. It is

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. May 7, 1919. CHARIVARIA. No enthusiasm attended the recent revival of the curious May Day custom of dancing round the snow man. *** Since the Muzzling Order, says a weekly paper, fewer postmen in the West

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 156 MARCH 19, 1919 CHARIVARIA. President WILSON is stated to have played several keen games of “shuffle-board” on the _George Washington_. As it is an open secret that Lord ROBERT CECIL has been polishing up his “shove-halfpenny” in the billiard-room of the Hotel Majestic interesting developments are anticipated. ***

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. MARCH 12, 1919. CHARIVARIA. The spread of influenza is said to be greatly assisted by “germ-carriers.” We can’t think why germs should be carried. Let ’em walk. *** According to _The Sunday Express_ a young American named Frisco states that he invented the Jazz. There was also a

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. June 25, 1919. CHARIVARIA. A man has written to the papers offering to buy five thousand pounds of Joy Loan if the Government will get him a case of whisky. The simple fellow does not seem

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. June 11, 1919. CHARIVARIA. “Every British working man has as much right as any Member of Parliament to be paid L400 a year,” states a well-known Labour paper. We have never questioned this for a moment.

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 156 JUNE 18, 1919 CHARIVARIA. Professor THATCHER of New York describes President WILSON as one of the five greatest men in the world. Sir ERIC GEDDES is anxious to know who the other three are. *** “The Jazz boom is dying out,” says Mr. HERMAN DAREWSKI, “but the next

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Punch, or the London Charivari, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. June 4, 1919. CHARIVARIA. “Germany will sign,” says an evening contemporary, “because the Allies hold all the trumps.” They also hold all the Manchurian beef, and are prepared, should the occasion