Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Politics, Government, Invention, Measurement, Psychology

    Following James R G Graham's savage remarks about the 'general run of heads of the Commons', this reports that Graham has 'ordered a machine to be constructed, to be called, the Caputometer, with which all members of Parliament will be duly measured; and those who are found to have the least head among them will, for the proper working out of Sir Robert's measures, be immediately promoted to the ministry'.