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Show THE TELEPHONE IN AUSTRALIA. How the Widely Scattered "Squatters" . Talk to Each Other. An Ingenious uso of tho telophono has rocontly modified tho Intonso monotony mo-notony of farm llfo In tho "squattor districts" of Australia. i It would not hnvo paid to lay wires from farm to farm, for they aro often ., soparatcd by many miles of open country; but somo Ingenious person hit upon tho Idea of using tho wiro fences used on nil tho farms to convoy con-voy the curront. Tho lonely squattor and his family I can now indulge in a friendly chat 4 with any ono of a hundred families "j scattered around within a radius of 1 fifty or sixty miles. Games of whist I nnd chess aro played at night over tho J telophono by clubs organized for that . V- purposo. |