Punch,  33 (1857), 170.

Exit Stultus

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Technology, Charlatanry


    Reports on a Punch contributor's argument that 'the lying messages brought by the electric wire make it perfectly proper to call the dispatch Tell-a-cram'.



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