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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158,
April 21, 1920, by Various
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 21, 1920
Author: Various
Release Date: July 5, 2005 [EBook #16213]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 158.
April 21st, 1920.
CHARIVARIA.
It appears that Irish criminals may be divided into three classes (_a_) The
ones you can't catch; (_b_) The ones you have caught but can't convict;
(_c_) The ones you have convicted but can't keep in prison.
* * *
To such an extent has America gone dry that nearly all letters despatched
from Scotsmen living over there are posted with the stamps pinned to the
envelopes.
* * *
"We are certainly going to gain by the sale of the Slough works," said Mr.
BONAR LAW last week. Whether to an extent that will justify the Government
for having kept _The Daily Mail_ waiting like that is another question.
* * *
Mr. JAMES FOWLER of Deptford has offered to walk from Westminster Bridge to
Brighton with a jar on his head. We assume that he has mislaid his hat.
* * *
In Hertfordshire the other day a boy was knocked down by a funeral-car. It
may have been an accident, but it has all the appearance of greed.
* * *
A constable giving evidence at Willesden police-court said a prisoner
called him a "sergeant-major." We feel sure the fellow could not have meant
it.
* * *
Mrs. ALICE L. YOCUM, of Boone, U.S.A., has just obtained her thirteenth
divorce. It is said that she has the finest collection of husbands in
America.
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