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EBOOK PUNCH VOL 153 ***
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PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 153.
August 1, 1917.
CHARIVARIA.
The Imperial aspirations of KING FERDINAND are discussed by a
Frankfort paper in an article entitled "What Bulgaria wants."
Significantly enough the ground covered is almost identical with the
subject-matter of an unpublished article of our own, entitled "What
Bulgaria won't get."
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The cow which walked down sixteen stairs into a cellar at Willesden
is said to have been the victim of a false air-raid warning.
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"In Scotland," says Mr. BARNES'S report on Industrial Unrest, "the
subject of liquor restrictions was never mentioned." Some thoughts
are too poignant for utterance.
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According to the statement of a German paper "A Partial Crisis"
threatens Austria. One of these days we feel sure something really
serious will happen to that country.
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The Medical Officer of the L.C.C. estimates that in 1916 the total
water which flowed under London Bridge was 875,000,000,000 gallons.
It is not known yet what is to be done about it.
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The Army Council has forbidden the sale of raffia in the United
Kingdom.
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