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Show The Ocean Cables or the Werld. According to the latest report of tlie International Bureau of Teh.-graph Teh.-graph Admlstratiocs, the submarino telegraph system or the world con-title con-title of 12J,070 nautical miles of cable. Government administrations own I2,o2l miles, while 107,515 are Ihe properly of prlvato corapanlrs. TIlU total coH of lhro cabin Is In tbe neighborhood of two hundred million dollars. The largestowr.tr cf submirine cables is the Eastern Telegraph I'omfony, whose syttein covers the ground from Kcgland to India, and comprises 21,So miles cf cable. The Kadcrn Extension, which exploits the far East, has 12,9iS miles more. Early in last year the system of West African cables, which started from Cadiz enly fix ycaN ago, was completed to Ope Town, so that tlib dark continent is now completely encircled en-circled by submarino telegraph, toucbingat numerous InU along the coast. Slore tlian 17.000 miles of cablo have been required to do this, and several companies, with mora or lesa aid from the British, Flench, Spaul'h, and Portuguese governments, have participated in carrriun out the work. Thu North AtUtnltc Is spanned by no km than eleven cables, all laid since IS70, though I think not all are working at the present time; five companies arc engaged in forwarding for-warding telegrams between North America and Euroi?, aud tlie total length of the i-tbles owned by them, Including coast connections, is over 3J,OW nautical miles. From "With a Cable Exjee!itIon," by HerUrt I-aws Webb, In October Scn&ncr. |