south; and in the vast stretches between there are barely a thousand was carried through, and to-day is alive with conversations concerning strand of copper wire there is, through the Congo region, placed there talk to him whenever they had grievances. And they talked! They talked one seven hundred and fifty mile stretch of the central jungle. There South America, outside of Buenos Ayres, has few telephones, probably not chased out of Persia by the enraged people. From this it would appear more than thirty thousand. Dom Pedro of Brazil, who befriended Bell at Far down in the list of continents stands Africa. Egypt and Algeria have thousand; and Australia fifty-five thousand. and attacked them. He fired upon the new Parliament, and was at once pulled up the iron poles. There were monkeys that played tag on the that the telephone ought to be popular in Persia, although at present were white ants that ate the wooden poles, and wild elephants that adventurous piece of work in the history of telephone linemen. There was thousand. Mexico has perhaps ten thousand; New Zealand twenty-six wooden drum, which is the clattering sign-language of the natives. One so freely and used such language, that the Shah ordered out his soldiers his palace and the market-place in Teheran, and invited his people to there are not more than twenty in use. the Centennial, introduced telephony into his country in 1881; but it more. Whoever pushes into Central Africa will still hear the beat of the by order of the late King of Belgium. To string it was probably the most has not in thirty years been able to obtain ten thousand users. Canada twelve thousand at the north; British South Africa has as many at the lines, and savages that stole the wire for arrow-heads. But the line has exactly the same number as Sweden--one hundred and sixty-five