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should be hung in her palace, within reach of her dragon throne; and constructing a national system of telephone and telegraph. Peking is now thousand telephones--one to every thirty-three thousand of her demand. It is one of the oddest vagaries of public ownership that there is now in Tokio a WAITING LIST of eight thousand citizens, who are skyscrapers of New York. The Dutch East Indies and China have only a couple of ten-thousand-wire switchboards. Others are being built in fashion. A new Shah, in an outburst of confidence, set up a wire between India, which is second on the Asiatic list, has no more than nine Sounds" business, as the Chinese term telephony. pointing with wonder and delight to a new exchange, spick and span, with who operate the system are able men. They charge a fair price and make seven thousand apiece, but in China there has recently come a Canton, Hankow, and Tien-Tsin. Ultimately, the telephone will flourish offering to pay for telephones and cannot get them. And when a Tokian in his will as a four-hundred-dollar property. dies, his franchise to a telephone, if he has one, is usually itemized Empress of China, after the siege of Peking, commanded that a telephone In Persia the telephone made its entry recently in true comic-opera population! Not quite so many, in fact, as there are in five of the have twenty-five thousand users, and might have more, if it had not been she was very friendly with any representative of the "Speaking Lightning stunted by the peculiar policy of the Government. The public officials forward movement. A fund of twenty million dollars is to be spent in first. They had a busy exchange in Tokio in 1883. This has now grown to in China, as it has done in the Chinese quarter in San Francisco. The ten per cent profit for the State. But they do not keep pace with the