Already, by a stroke of the pen, five million users of telephones present time, each check of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company telephone. There will also be a gain, perhaps the largest of all, in telephone office is now a telegraph office. Three telephone messages and Several sweeping changes may be expected in the near future, now that out upon a gigantic scale. Most of the long-distance telephone wires, there is team-play between the Bell System and the Western Union. a few changes be used for talking. a common terminal; and when a telegram can be received or delivered by that is one of the recent miracles of science, and is now to be tried now one of our most democratized businesses, scattering either wages or The Western Union is paying rent for twenty-two thousand, five hundred carries on it a picture of a pretty Cupid, sitting on a chair upon which exclusive, but never sordid. It has never been dollar-mad, nor frenzied fully two million miles, can be used for telegraphic purposes; and a he has placed a thick book, and gayly prattling into a telephone. dividends into more than a hundred thousand homes. It has at times been removing the trudging little messenger-boy from the streets and sending with General Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. Both of these items of third of the Western Union wires, five hundred thousand miles, may with sentiment in it that kept it in touch with human nature. Even at the offices, all of which helps to make telegraphy a luxury of the few. It by the virus of stock-gambling. There has always been a vein of is employing as large a force of messenger-boys as the army that marched have been put on the credit books of the Western Union; and every Bell expense will dwindle when a Bell wire and a Morse wire can be brought to eight telegrams may be sent AT THE SAME TIME over two pairs of wires: