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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916, by Various, Edited by Owen Seaman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 Author: Various Editor: Owen Seaman Release Date: October 14, 2007 [eBook #22993] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 150, MARCH 8, 1916*** E-text prepared by Jane Hyland, Jonathan Ingram, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 22993-h.htm or 22993-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/9/9/22993/22993-h/22993-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/9/9/22993/22993-h.zip) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 150 MARCH 8, 1916 CHARIVARIA. Germany is declared to have built a submarine that can go to the United States and back. Future insults therefore will be delivered by hand. *** Municipal fishshops are to be established in Germany. They will be closely associated, it is understood, with the Overseas News Agency, and will make a speciality of supplying a fish diet to sailors who are unfortunately prevented by circumstances from visiting the high seas. *** In his lecture before the Royal Institute last week Dr. E. G. RUSSELL told his audience that there are 80,000,000 micro-organisms in a tablespoonful of rich cucumber soil. If we substitute German casualties for micro-organisms and deduct the average monthly wastage as shown by the private lists from the admitted official total of available effectives--but we are treading on Mr. BELLOC'S preserves. *** The Government has announced itself as "satisfied with the measures taken to prevent Canadian nickel from reaching the Germans." Except, of course, in oblong pellets of insignificant size. *** Answering a question of Sir ARTHUR MARKHAM in the House of Commons last week, Mr. TENNANT said, "If there was a large force of troops in Egyp
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