Genre:

Regular Feature, Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Pneumatics, Publishing, Railways, Societies, Palaeontology, Race

    Includes the news that 'An Illustrated Treatise on Dancing Pumps will shortly be issued from the hydraulic press', that a 'comic edition' of Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide will be published with incorrect timetables and maps—thus resembling the original—and that Mr Mitchell is to be made a fellow of the Geological Society, owing to his discovery of 'the Original Bones of the Niggers'.