Chapter 12

Sobarny Cigarettes: "A day in his flat and he did not est or say anything, brooding, as he smoked endlessly his Sobarny cigarettes..."

The Sobarny cigarette brand is one of the oldest tobacco brands in the world.

Pantographs: "The flashes of electricity from their pantographs crackling along the over head wires in minute..."

An instrument for copying a plane figure to a desired scale.

Vaudeville: "The electric light bulbs of each vaudeville house rippled in a particular pattern."
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s.

Terminus: "One could travel great distance on hard rush seats or wooden benches by taking each line to its terminus and transferring to the next"The final point; the end.

Tom Thumb: "This took them up through the cities of Standford, Norwalk and then to Bridgeport, the burial place of Tom Thumb."
Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore. The History of Tom Thumb was published in 1621, and has the distinction of being the first fairy tale printed in English. Tom is no bigger than his father's thumb, and his adventures include being swallowed by a cow, tangling with giants, and becoming a favorite of King Arthur.

Versts: "He saw the village of his youth going by now, some versts beyond the meadow."

A Russian measure of length, about 0.66 mile (1.1 km).