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Dim-carriage-lighting joke
Railway conductor joke
A stock complaint of 1880s feuilleton humor: dim railway-carriage lighting made it hard for conductors to check passengers' tickets, the one-line joke of "Carriage Lighting."
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- Captions for Drawings §131 CARRIAGE LIGHTING
A one-line caption satirizing Russian rail travel of the period, where dim carriage lighting made it hard for a conductor to check tickets -- a stock complaint of 1880s feuilleton humor.
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