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Description
Magazine
Chamber's Journal
April 1 1895
PB, 7 x 10", about 80 pages, in fair condition for over 120. The front cover is detached, chipped, etc
Fascinating - both the articles and the advertisements
This one has pieces on The Dockisation of the River Avon (2.25 pages), Biribi - French military discipline (2 pages), Nicotiana (2 pages - are cigarettes bad for you? Amazing facts, including how smoking was used as a political statement in 1848, and how an officer died when the mixture of tobacco and turpentine he was smoking for his asthma exploded), The Great Indian (Trigonometrical) Survey (2.5 pages), The State and the Telegraphs (2.5 pages - how the government had taken over the telegraph service in 1870, producing 'a startling increase in the number of telegraphs sent'), The Humours of the House of Commons (2.5 pages, most entertaining!), Submarine Warfare (1, very detailed, page), and Snake Taming (2.25 pages - pythons, cobra and the tree-boa, 'probably the most persistently savage serpent in the world')
These magazines are an absolute treasure trove to the historian, IMHO!
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