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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916

Author: Various

Editor: Owen Seaman

Release Date: August 14, 2007 [EBook #22313]

Language: English

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 150

February 2, 1916.

CHARIVARIA.

According to the Correspondent of _The Daily Mail_ who described the
festivities at Nish, the King of BULGARIA "has a curious duck-like
waddle." This is believed to be the result of his effort to do the
Goose-Step while avoiding the Turkey-Trot.

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Owing to the extraction of benzol and toluol from gas for the purpose of
making high-explosives it is stated that consumers may have to put up
with some decrease in illuminating power. It is expected, in view of the
good object involved, that the announcement will be received in a spirit
of toluoleration.

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We cannot agree with the actor who complains that his manager forbids
him to wear his armlet on the stage. The sympathies of the audience
might be entirely deranged by the discovery that the elderly villain was
an attested patriot while the young and beautiful hero was either
ineligible or a slacker.

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Describing the depressed condition of the laundry trade a witness at the
Clerkenwell County Court said, "We are eight million double collars
short every week." It is shrewdly conjectured that they are in the
neighbourhood of the Front.

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Nothing in the course of his Balkan pilgrimage is reported to have
pleased the KAISER so much as a steamer-trip on the Danube. It was
looking so sympathetically blue.

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The Government is going to close Museums and Picture-galleries to the
public. No one shall accuse us of being Apostles of Culture.

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It is said that the Australian and New Zealand soldiers now in London
are very fond of visiting the British Muse