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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920

Author: Various

Editor: Owen Seaman

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 158

MAY 5, 1920

CHARIVARIA.

We understand that Lord FISHER, who is reported to have taken a week off to
say what he thought about the Budget, has asked for an extension of time.

* * *

Germany has decided to abolish gradually all titles of nobility. They will
disappear Von by Von.

* * *

Six hundred Irish emigrants left for New York last Wednesday on board the
_Celtic_. All, we understand, were advised before leaving that the price of
a man's votes, after the first five or six, isn't what it was in former
Presidential elections.

* * *

"I hope I will not come back until the basis of a real peace with Russia is
secured," said Mr. SNOWDEN on the eve of his departure. There are other
people who don't much mind what cause detains him.

* * *

An earthquake is reported in California, and a volume of poems by the POET
LAUREATE is announced. What a breathless week!

* * *

"What is wanted in our prisons," says a well-known preacher, "is more
humanity; in the Irish prisons in particular the right kind of humanity."
Even in the rare cases where we get hold of it we don't seem able to keep
it.

* * *

The Liverpool and District Federation of Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods,
p