Punch,  49 (1865), 189.

Punch's Table-Talk  [3/16]

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Photography, Anaesthesia, Telegraphy, Nationalism, Race, Cultural Geography


    Includes the announcement that 'I will never be photographed again except under chloroform', and news that a 'fellow in America has vaunted that it was a Fenian who destroyed the Atlantic Cable', a story 'illustrating a renegade Irishman's instinctive aversion to rope'.



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