PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 156

FEBRUARY 5, 1919.







CHARIVARIA.

The Germans refer to the Armistice negotiations as
_Waffenstillstandeverhandlungen_. We hope it will be worse even than
they think.

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There is no truth in the rumour that among the many new performances
of _Hamlet_ which are promised there will be one in aid of the fund
for brightening the lives of the clergy, with the Gloomy Dean as the
Gloomy Dane.

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"We Americans do not consider ourselves the salt of the earth," says
Senator HENRY. No, but their bacon certainly is.