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