PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 156.



March 5, 1919.




CHARIVARIA.

"What is whisky?" asks an evening paper headline. Our memory is not
what is was, but we have certainly seen the name somewhere.

***

"Bitter," says the _Kölnische Zeitung_, "is the taste of defeat." A
reference, presumably, to the thirty thousand tons of American bacon
sold to Germany by the Allies.

***

"The Octopus," said the Lord Mayor of DUBLIN in his inaugural address,
"is showing its fangs." Meanwhile Cardinal GIBBONS is busy twisting
the Lion's tentacles.