A Chance for Clairvoyance
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Mesmerism, Telegraphy, Commerce |
Publications cited: | The Times |
Discusses the possibility of making a fortune 'on the strength of a somnambulist's prediction respecting anybody's decease', and wonders why stock-jobbers have not 'availed themselves of clairvoyance', a power which could 'supersede the Electric Telegraph'. | |
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