Punch,  46 (1864), 132.

The Way the Cat Jumps

In Terrorem

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Crime, Machinery, Force, Instruments


    Discussing the recent House of Commons vote against the amendment of the Mutiny Bill, insists that the 'Act of Parliament which limits Courts Martial and Colonels to fifty lashes, omitted to provide that they should be administered by a flogging machine, graduated to act with a certain power, or that the force of the drummer's arm should be limited to a stated sum by a dynamometer'.



© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020

Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]