Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 26, 1919, by Various, Edited by Owen Seamen
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GERMANY, says Count RANTZAU, cannot be treated as a second-rate nation. Not while it is represented by tenth-rate noblemen.
People are now asking who the General is who has threatened not to write a book about the War?
On Sunday week, at Tallaght, Co. Dublin, seven men attacked a policeman. The campaign for a brighter Sunday is evidently not wanted in Ireland.
The United States Government is sending a Commission to investigate industrial conditions in the British Isles. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE, we understand, has courteously offered to try to keep one or two industries going until the Commission arrives.
Everything that happened more than a fortnight ago, says Mr. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW in The Daily News , always is forgotten in this land of political trifling. We must draw what comfort we can from the reflection that Mr. SHAW himself happened more than a fortnight ago.
Margarine, says an official notice, can be bought anywhere after to-day. This is not the experience of the man who entered an ironmonger's shop and asked for a couple of feet of it.
A woman who threatened to murder a neighbour was fined one shilling at Chertsey. We shudder to think what it would have cost her if she had actually carried out her threat.
A contemporary refers to those abominable face-masks now being worn in London. Can this be a revival of the late Mr. RICHARDSON'S campaign against the wearing of whiskers?
A Court of Justice is not a place of amusement, said Mr. Justice ROCHE at Manchester Assizes. Mr. Justice DARLING'S rejoinder is eagerly awaited.