Show codes ever since submarine telegraphy became an established means of commini cation much ingenuity has been expended on the compilation of codes partly for secrecy but principally to abbreviate the messages and save money in rates to such a fine point has codifying been brought in this lahrer direction that the telegraph companies are at their wits end to maintain a proper equilibrium between the number of messages sent and the number of words transmitted mit ted in other words between the volume of actual business and the amount of revenue all large commercial houses now use complicated codes in which a single word of ten letters represents a sentence of ten fifteen or twenty words electricity |