Yankee Greeks and Trojans
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Telegraphy, Matter Theory, Heat, Language, Comparative Philology |
Ponders 'intelligence' from New York that 'the telegraphic wires between that city and Troy' have been burnt. Noting the difficulty of burning matter, suggests that the word should have been 'broken'. | |
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