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Show A French journal estimates that the total length of the-urgraph wires of the world, including submarine cables, exceeds ex-ceeds 500,000 miles, four-fifths of which are in Europe and Auiarica. The Bright Bo Knew. In ono of the city schools a teacher, with all the patience and powers of persuasion per-suasion she could command, was endeavoring en-deavoring to instruct a class about a right angle triangle. After several attempts at-tempts she called the scholars to account for inattention with the remark that what she was saying seemed to go in one ear end out the other. Again she repeated re-peated her description, following it by asking: "Who can tell what a risht angle triangle is?" Up went a hand.'and the bright boy to whom it belonged shouted ( "Something which goes in oca ear and ut the other," Worcester JBy. |