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March 29, 1916, by Various

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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916

Author: Various

Editor: Owen Seaman

Release Date: September 20, 2007 [EBook #22688]

Language: English

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PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 150.

March 29, 1916

[Illustration:
_Fond Mother._ "Anything in the paper, dear?"
_Wage-earner (not unkindly)._ "No, Ma--nothing you could understand."]

CHARIVARIA.

"His seventy-one years sit lightly on Mr. GIBSON BOWLES," says the
Special Correspondent of _The Evening News_. No doubt Mr. BOWLES has
some good reason for permitting this familiarity, for he is not a man to
be lightly sat upon.

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"In particular," says a report on the resources of German East Africa,
"the President of the Silk Association has just directed attention to
the wild silk of the anaphe worm." The animal the great two-horned
silkworm discovered by Sir HARRY JOHNSTON, before whose furious charges,
according to the report of natives, even the elephant will give way.

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A telegram from Rome states that it is generally believed that Admiral
TIRPITZ resigned because he could not take the German Fleet out. Others
again maintain that it was because he could no longer take the German
people in.

***

It was recently stated in a Parliamentary Report that verminous uniforms
had been purchased by the Government for the sum of L2,650 and
immediately resold for L400. The difference is accounted for by the fact
that they were sold as going concerns.

***

A white rook has been observed at Boston Road, Brentford, and a local
ornithologist writes to say that the bird is probably an accidental
straggler from King's Bishop's Fourth.

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"To-day in many English homes," says a patriotic contemporary, "alien
birds are carolling all unconscious of their countries' doom." One had
independently noticed how the modulated of the Turkey buz