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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. JANUARY 15, 1919. CHARIVARIA. A memorial to SIMON DE MONTFORT has been unveiled at Evesham, where he fell in 1265. A pathetic inquiry reaches us as to whether SIMON is yet demobilised. *** We are informed that the project of adding a “Silence Room” to the National Liberal

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. JANUARY 8, 1919. CHARIVARIA. The mystery of the Foreign Office official who has not gone to Paris for the Peace Conference has been cleared up. He is the caretaker. *** “The King and Queen of Roumania,” says a Paris paper, “will embark after Christmas, orthodox style, for Western

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. JANUARY 1, 1919. TO AN UNKNOWN COLLEAGUE. _(Inspired by the exchange of Minutes in Government Departments.)_ He was my friend–if friendship’s proof Be sympathy profound and sweet; Eight months we toiled beneath one roof, Yet somehow never chanced to meet. So near and yet so far! I own

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. FEBRUARY 26, 1919 CHARIVARIA. “GERMANY,” says Count RANTZAU, “cannot be treated as a second-rate nation.” Not while it is represented by tenth-rate noblemen. *** People are now asking who the General is who has threatened not to write a book about the War? *** On Sunday week, at

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. FEBRUARY 12, 1919. CHARIVARIA. “Officers,” says a recent A.C.I., “may use their public chargers for general purposes.” Army circles regard this as a body blow at the taxi-sharks. *** “I had a thrill the other night,” writes a correspondent of _The Daily Mail._ “I encountered a badger on

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156 FEBRUARY 5, 1919. CHARIVARIA. The Germans refer to the Armistice negotiations as _Waffenstillstandeverhandlungen_. We hope it will be worse even than they think. *** There is no truth in the rumour that among the many new performances of _Hamlet_ which are promised there will be one in aid

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 156 APRIL 23, 1919 CHARIVARIA. “Hull electors,” declared a Radical contemporary, “have dealt the Coalition a stinging rebuke.” But not, as others claim, the _coupon de grace_. *** _A propos_, a Woking butcher was fined last week for being thirty-two thousand coupons short. The report that he has since

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 156 APRIL 16, 1919 CHARIVARIA. We understand that a proposal to send a relief party to America to rescue Scotsmen from the threatened Prohibition law is under consideration. *** It is rumoured that _The Times_ is about to announce that it does not hold itself responsible for editorial opinions

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. APRIL 30, 1919. CHARIVARIA. An alarming rumour is going the rounds to the effect that Printing House Square refuses to accept any responsibility for the findings of the Peace Conference. *** “Mystery,” says a news item, “surrounds the purchase of fifty retail fish shops in and about London.”

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 156 APRIL 2, 1919 CHARIVARIA. A Liverpool grocer was fined last week for overcharging for margarine, eggs, cheese, ham, bacon, cocoa, jam and suet. Any other nation, it is pointed out, would have had a man like that at the Peace Conference. *** The strike of wives, as proposed

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 156. March 5, 1919. CHARIVARIA. “What is whisky?” asks an evening paper headline. Our memory is not what is was, but we have certainly seen the name somewhere. *** “Bitter,” says the _Koelnische Zeitung_, “is the taste

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 153. November 7, 1917. CHARIVARIA. No sooner had the _Berliner Tageblatt_ pointed out that “Dr. MICHAELIS was a good Chancellor as Chancellors go” than he went. *** _The Daily Mail_ is very cross with a neutral country