Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 7, 1914 by Various
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how he might save himself much wearisome travelling in achieving his
object, has been rejected. *** Judge PARRY declares, in the current number of _The Cornhill_, that lost golf balls belong to the KING; and the ballroom at Buckingham Palace is, we understand, to be enlarged at once. *** Mr. BERNARD SHAW is the latest addition to Madame TUSSAUD'S gallery of wax-works. But Mr. CHESTERTON must not be jealous. He too, we understand, will be placed there if room can be found for him. *** From some correspondence in _The Express_ we learn that members of more than one savage tribe have a habit of standing on one leg. We see no objection to this at all, but we were bound to protest the other day, in a crowded train, when we came across a stout gentleman standing on one foot. The foot, we should mention, was ours. *** Of the late Mr. JOHN WILLIAM WHITE, who was only twenty-one inches in height, we are told that he was an ardent politician. Could he have been a Little Englander? *** |
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