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"The German government has a terrific explosive, which is being
held in reserve to the last.... It is said that a bomb weighing
scarcely ten kilometres can annihilate everything within a radius
of two thousand feet."--_New York Herald_.
We do not mind saying that we are frankly afraid of a bomb that weighs
about six miles.
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"TIPPERARY BURGLARY.--Tipperary Temperance Club premises have been
gurgled."--_Cork Examiner_.
GILBERT'S burglar up-to-date: "He loves to hear the Temperance Club
a-gurgling."
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"General Allenby, no doubt, will go in due time to the House of
Lords, and military men are taking a jocular interest in his
selection of a title. Lord Bathsheba might serve, or Lord Hebron.
Lord Jerusalem smacks of the jocose."--_Birmingham Daily Post_.
For our part we thought "Lord Bathsheba" rather funny too.
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