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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920

Author: Various

Editor: Owen Seaman

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Language: English

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Punch,

or the London Charivari

Volume 158, Jan-Jul 1920

June 16, 1920

CHARIVARIA.

"The Bolshevists," says a gossip writer, "do not always rob Peter to
pay Paul." No, they sometimes just rob Peter.

* * *

A Yarmouth report anticipates a shortage of herrings. It is said that
the PRIME MINISTER has a couple of second-hand red ones for disposal
which have only been drawn across the path once or twice.

* * *

"One of the Kaiser's mugs," says a news item, "has just been sold in
New York for forty pounds." We have suspected for some time that he
was a double-faced fellow.

* * *

"There should be no temptations to crime in so beautiful a spot," said
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE when presented with white gloves at the Anglesey
assizes. The sentiment is thought to be as old as ADAM.

* * *

"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 means
sending the Reserve of Special Constables to do it.

* * *

According to the Ministry of Transport, there is only one motor-car to
every one hundred and twenty people in Great Britain. The necessity of
fixing a maximum bag of pedestrians per car does not therefore arise.

* * *

A purple-eyed fish, eleven feet long, with a horn on its nose and no
teeth, has been caught at San Diego, California. That is the sort of
thing that makes Prohibition a secondary issue.

* * *

As the result of some remarks let drop by the crew and repeated by the
ship's parrot, several hundred bottles of liquor were found on board
the _S.S. Curacao_ by the San Francisco port