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Show Grow til Of Telegraphy. "Tho wonderful growth of Iho tolo-graph tolo-graph business Is shown," says Popular Sclonco News. "In the fuel that thirty yours ago thoro were only 3000 telegraph tele-graph ojllcesand Utile more than 7f,Q0O miles of wire strung throughout tho length and breadth of tho land. At tho present time there nro about 25.000 oillces nnd over 1,000.0'JO miles of Wire. Tin ttvertigo number of mosbtigos handled han-dled thirty years ago was 6.870,182; today to-day It Is 80,000.000, The average cost to the sender thirty yours ago wns$l.. 047; tho avorago cost today Is 30.0 cents. At tho start the cost to thu company was mors than twlco what It Is today to tlloseIlller.,,,' |