Transcriber's Note: Typo "Professsor" changed to "Professor" in the last paragraph of the last page. Underlining was used to indicate where text appeared upside down in the original.
PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 146.
FEBRUARY 25, 1914.
CLOSE OF THE COURSING SEASON.
CHARIVARIA.
The German Crown Prince has themumps. It seems that his ImperialFather was not consulted in the matterbeforehand, and further domestic differencesare anticipated.
King Sisovath of Cambodia, welearn from Le Petit Journal, was sopleased with a white elephant sent himby the Governor-General of FrenchIndo-China that he has raised theanimal—a fine female—to the dignityof a Princess. The news soon gotabout, and considerable jealousy is feltat our Zoo, where there is not so muchas even a baronet among the inmates.
General von Plettenburgh, commandingthe Prussian Guards Corps,has issued a decree against the wearingof the so-called "tooth-brush" moustache,pointing out that such anappendage is unsuitable for a Prussiansoldier and "not consonant with theGerman national character." The implicationis very unpleasant.
"It is generally reported," says acontemporary, "that Sir Edward Greyspeaks no German, and French verybadly. M. Venizelos, the GreekPrime Minister, declared that he hadthe greatest difficulty in understandingSir Edward's French." As a matterof fact a little bird tells us that on thisoccasion our Foreign Secretary wasspeaking Greek.
"Mr. Asquith," said The Times,"in a massage to the Liberal candidatefor South Bucks, emphasizes the primeimportance of the Irish issue." Thereis, of course, nothing like massage forrubbing things in.
Herr Ballin, head of the Hamburg-AmericanLine, and Herr Heineken,head of the rival North-German LloydCompany, came to London last week,and are said to have concluded peacein the Atlantic rate war. We understandthat the arrangement is to beknown as the Pool of London.
The authorities at Barotse, The Globetells us, have put a price on the headsof all lions there. One can picture themean sportsman, with a pair of field-glasses,picking out the cheapest beforefiring.
"61,000 Territorials Short."
Daily Mail.
Still, it is pretty generally recognisednow that a small man may make everybit as good a soldier as a big one, and,besides, there is always less of him to hit.
Among the temporary teachers appointedto carry on schools in Herefordshireduring the teachers' strike wasan asylum attendant. This confirmsthe report that many of the childrenwere mad at finding that the schools didnot close in consequence of the strike.
It is denied that the name of thePhilharmonic Hall, where Mr. Ponting'smoving pictures of the AntarcticExpedition are being shown, is to bechanged to the Philmharmonic Hall.
Richard Strauss's new work, de