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August 18th, 1920, by Various

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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 18th, 1920

Author: Various

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Language: English

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 159.

August 18th, 1920.

CHARIVARIA

The grouse-shooting reports are coming in. Already one of the newly-rich
has sent a brace of gamekeepers to the local hospital.

* * *

"A few hours in Cork," says a _Daily Mail_ correspondent, "will convince
anyone that a civil war is near." A civil war, it should be explained, is
one in which the civilians are at war but the military are not.

* * *

Lisburn Urban Council has decided to buy an army hut for use as a day
nursery. It is this policy of petty insult that is bound in the end to goad
the military forces in Ireland to reprisals.

* * *

"Who invented railways?" asks a weekly paper. We can only say we know
somebody who butted in later.

* * *

"Mr. Churchill," says a contemporary, "has some friends still." It will be
noticed that they are very still.

* * *

"It may interest your readers to know," writes a correspondent, "that it
would take four days and nights, seven hours, fifty-two minutes and ten
seconds to count one day's circulation of _The Daily Mail_." Holiday-makers
waiting for the shower to blow over should certainly try it.

* * *

Coloured grocery sugars, the FOOD CONTROLLER announces, are to be freed
from control on September 6th. A coloured grocery is one in which the
grocer is not as black as he is painted.

* * *

A conference of sanitary inspectors at Leeds has been considering the
question, "When is a house unfit for habitation?" The most dependable sign
is the owner's description of it as a "charming old-world residence."

* * *

The Warrington Watch Committee, says a news item, have before them an
unusual number of applications for pawnbrokers' licences. In the