Punch,  18 (1850), 158.

The Earth hath Bubbles

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Electricity, Metallurgy, Geology, Commerce


    Reports on gold-diggers' disappointment that gold is 'merely a crust over the soil' and their castigation of 'Nature, for having condescended to use the electrotype process, instead of making the ground one solid mass' of gold.



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