A Suburban Shame
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Telegraphy, Technology, Natural Law |
Compares the circuitous routes by which mail is delivered to its destination, to similar processes in the electric telegraph, but points out that 'the law of the Electric Telegraph is a law of Nature which is unchangeable' but 'the law of the Post' is at the whim of the General Post Office. | |
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