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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 30, 1919

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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.

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"Mystery," says a news item, "surrounds the purchase of fifty retail
fish shops in and about London." The Athenaeum Club is full of the
wildest rumours.

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The statement of the Allied Food Commission, that there are more sheep
in Germany to-day than in 1914, has come as a surprise to those who
imagined that the loud bleating noise was chiefly Herr SCHEIDEMANN.

***

"Get your muzzle now!" says _The Daily Mail_. It is felt, however, that
the PRIME MINISTER scored a distinct hit by saying it first.

***

"There is absolutely no reason," says a Health Culture writer, "why
Members of Parliament should not live to be one hundred." We think we
could find a reason if we were pressed.

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To-morrow a man in the North of England is to celebrate his hundredth
birthday. He will be the youngest centenarian in the country.

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At Ealing it appears that a rabid dog dashed into a pork butcher's shop
and snapped at a sausage. The sausage was immediately shot.

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The War Office, says a contemporary, is to have another stor