Punch, or the London Charivari, page 1 by Various Authors
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A man recently arrested in Dublin was found to have in his possession a loaded revolver, three sticks of gelignite, four lengths of fuse, a number of detonators and a jemmy. It is thought that he may have been dabbling in politics.
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"Demobilised men are doing such execution at the London World's Fair Shooting Galleries," says a news item, "that the supply of bottles is running short." Nothing, however, can be done about it till the PRIME MINISTER returns from Paris.
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"There is a proper time for the last meal of the day," says a medical writer. We have always been of the opinion that supper should not be taken between meals.
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After addressing a meeting for two hours, says a contemporary, TROTSKY fainted. A more humane man would have fainted first.
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We feel very jealous of the suburban gentleman who wrote last week asking what an O.B.E. was, and whether, if it was a bird, it should be fed on hemp-seed or ants' eggs.
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With reference to the wooden house which fell down last week, the builder is of the opinion that a sparrow must have accidentally stepped on it.
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Lord BIRKENHEAD describes the Coalition as an "invertebrate and undefined body." Meaning that they have rather more wishbone than backbone.
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An Indian native was recently sentenced to write a poem. In other countries of course you commit a poem first and are sentenced afterwards.
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Mr. F.H. ROSE, M.P., writing in The Sunday Pictorial, refers to the Ministry of Munitions as "a veritable monument of superfluous futility." For ourselves we don't mind futility so long as it isn't superfluous.
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Will the lady who, during the Winter Sales' scramble, inadvertently went off with two husbands please return the other one to his rightful owner?
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Mr. J.H. SYMONS, the Weymouth draper novelist, has told a Star reporter that he only writes novels for a hobb