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The Telegraphe.
THE TELEGRAPHE .
The folio-wing is the Production of the ingenious M . DE LOIME on this curious Subject .
npHE account of the contrivance lately used in France for speedily Ji _ communicating to a great distance whole sets of ideas , and even express words , makes me recollect a thought that occurred to me some years ago , when 1 heard for the first time an account of the scheme practised by those persons ludicrously called horse and foot pigeons , who , during the time of the drawing of the lottery at Guildhalluse to runeither on horseback or on footto distant parts of the
, , , town , such as the farthest end of Oxford-street , in order speedily to convey to their associates in that distant quarter , a knowledge of the ¦ two or three numbers that have first come out of the wheel that morning at Guildhall . The intent of the scheme is , to defraud those lottery-office keepers who , through greediness and eager avidity to do business , continue in such distant part ' s of the town to insure
numbers for that day so late as half an hour or more after nine o ' clock , that is , after the lottery has actually commenced drawing . The thought that occurred to me was that of a . contrivance by which these horse and foot pigeons mi ght have saved themselves a deal of trouble , and at the same time / have conveyed-the knowledge of the first-drawn numbers to distant parts of the town with much
more speed than it is possible for them to do , even if they were to employ real winged pigeons . The thought ' occurred to me as a mere joke with myself , which J .. never communicated , being unwilling to give a hint that mi ght accidentall y reach and assist some- dishonest persons . However , I shall mention the contrivance now . Being publicly expressed in a newspaper it can do no hurt , because , if it serves
as a bad hint to some , it also serves as a proper caution to others ; and at the same time the description will ' enable ' the reader more readily to understand the explanation I intend to . give , ill the issue , concerning the manner in which the knowledge of many ideas , and even of many -expiess words , may-be conveyed in about half an hour ' s time from Lisle to Paris ; that is , to the distance of an hundred and twenty miles .
The contrivance I meant for speedily conveying to the farthest end of Oxford-street the knowled ge of a number just drawn at Guildhall , was this : —A garret should have been hired in some house near to Guildhall , ' or a place should have been , obtained in the upper part of " that steeple which stands just by . . A large black board , about seven feet long and six feet high , should have been affixed or hung outwards to this upper part of the steeple , and upon this black board the two or three intended numbers sHbuld have . been previously written in large conspicuous' figures , each about eighteen inches long
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Telegraphe.
THE TELEGRAPHE .
The folio-wing is the Production of the ingenious M . DE LOIME on this curious Subject .
npHE account of the contrivance lately used in France for speedily Ji _ communicating to a great distance whole sets of ideas , and even express words , makes me recollect a thought that occurred to me some years ago , when 1 heard for the first time an account of the scheme practised by those persons ludicrously called horse and foot pigeons , who , during the time of the drawing of the lottery at Guildhalluse to runeither on horseback or on footto distant parts of the
, , , town , such as the farthest end of Oxford-street , in order speedily to convey to their associates in that distant quarter , a knowledge of the ¦ two or three numbers that have first come out of the wheel that morning at Guildhall . The intent of the scheme is , to defraud those lottery-office keepers who , through greediness and eager avidity to do business , continue in such distant part ' s of the town to insure
numbers for that day so late as half an hour or more after nine o ' clock , that is , after the lottery has actually commenced drawing . The thought that occurred to me was that of a . contrivance by which these horse and foot pigeons mi ght have saved themselves a deal of trouble , and at the same time / have conveyed-the knowledge of the first-drawn numbers to distant parts of the town with much
more speed than it is possible for them to do , even if they were to employ real winged pigeons . The thought ' occurred to me as a mere joke with myself , which J .. never communicated , being unwilling to give a hint that mi ght accidentall y reach and assist some- dishonest persons . However , I shall mention the contrivance now . Being publicly expressed in a newspaper it can do no hurt , because , if it serves
as a bad hint to some , it also serves as a proper caution to others ; and at the same time the description will ' enable ' the reader more readily to understand the explanation I intend to . give , ill the issue , concerning the manner in which the knowledge of many ideas , and even of many -expiess words , may-be conveyed in about half an hour ' s time from Lisle to Paris ; that is , to the distance of an hundred and twenty miles .
The contrivance I meant for speedily conveying to the farthest end of Oxford-street the knowled ge of a number just drawn at Guildhall , was this : —A garret should have been hired in some house near to Guildhall , ' or a place should have been , obtained in the upper part of " that steeple which stands just by . . A large black board , about seven feet long and six feet high , should have been affixed or hung outwards to this upper part of the steeple , and upon this black board the two or three intended numbers sHbuld have . been previously written in large conspicuous' figures , each about eighteen inches long