Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Technology

    Astonished by the rate at which letters can be sent via David E Hughes's 'printing telegraph', observes that 'ladies might object to corresponding through such a channel', because they would not like to be 'wire-drawn', and that it would ruin penny-a-liners. Believes that the wire will destroy the 'imaginative profession' of those who report on 'vegetable and meteorological phenomena'. Ends by pointing out that penny-a-liners might be saved because of a break in the cable chain.