Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Amusement

    Reports that the adoption of the electric telegraph at Epsom Racecourse has had 'such an effect on the minds of several of the old workers' of the 'old-fashioned telegraph', that these 'poor creatures' were allowed to use their invention to send 'a set of incoherent signals'. Admires the humane spirit in which these individuals 'indulge a sort of garrulity through the medium of those signals' on the old telegraph.