Show THB TELEGRAPH wires have been prostrate but two days yet it aeems like an age since we heard from Ar i tour and that plot to aboot him I which by the way was among the last news items received about the cabinet about what they are doing in Europe Asia and Africa Any ol ug may recall the time when news a week old was relished for its freshness fresh-ness when even papers a month out row New York brought richmorsel3 ol late intelligence Now events are g transpiring rapidly and people reliving re-living so fast that the wires go down the merry click ceases and consternation conster-nation ensues an horns delay causes anxiety and a day without telegraphic news sets people to wondering how anybody managed to exist beJoro the days of the daily newspaper and the telegraph The wires will be restrung today I the click click be resumed the dots and dashes convey their information for the merchant banker newspaper readsr and editor and to morrows papers be declared the moat interesting that have been issued for weeks as they are greedily greed-ily perused by the newshungry people peo-ple By and by the telegraph will be cast aside as slow and old fogyisband newspapers that come out but once in twenty four hours be regarded as provincial affairs good enough for the people of the North Pole or of some outoftheway island The active people abreast of the times will requira something better and than electricity something that will not be affected by winds or storms but will bring them information from Greenland or Constantinople or Honolulu or Bombay or Tunis in all kinds ot weather and on a mere suggestion or thought |