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