"TORPEDO" AND PERPETUAL MOTION.
" Torpedo," who is evidently labouring under •the hallucination that our only mission in the ■world is to advertise any catch-penny burlesque on science that may Ye issued from the printingpress, writes denying that he has discovered perpetual motion. lie now merely claims to have discovered a force which is " self-acting and selfrenevving." " Torpedo " was once a cook or waiter, "V>r something of the sort, down South. We also a force which is self-acting and selfifenewing— the police force. It is self-acting in '""■uie matter of arrests, and it renews it-self bj re- ■: "byuitiuff its r Jinks. ■'- . -. - ■ ■
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 163, 27 October 1883, Page 3
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100"TORPEDO" AND PERPETUAL MOTION. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 163, 27 October 1883, Page 3
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