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Show office where the Chinese girls sat bad been pulled aside find all were talking at once. One of the operators, a bright girl from Pekin, came to me and asked what she could do for me. I explained that I thought there must be some trouble trou-ble by the rush of Chinamen into the place. She laughed, and replied In perfect per-fect Amertcanese: 'Nothing to it. .lust a bunch of sightseers, 1 guess; that's all." ' New York Times. Hello in Nine Dialects. James Robb. an official of the New York Telephone company, who has Just returned from a trip to the Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific exposition, said that next to the wonderful Tower of Jewels the most interesting in-teresting place he visited In San Francisco Fran-cisco was the Chinese Telephone exchange, ex-change, near Portsmouth square. In the old quarter of the city. "Under the management of Loo Kum Shu," Mr. Robh said, "there are four Chinese girls, wearing tLclr native costume cos-tume and speaking perfect English, who manage the exchange, which has 10 000 subscribers. Fully 80 per cent of them cannot read or write, and tile girls have to remember the names and numbers of the Chinamen, so that thev can connect con-nect when their countrymen call up an.l ask for Hop ;.ee the one-eyed washerman, washer-man, or Win:.- Kee the rat catcher or t.ll-PII the sa nshu merchant. They- do it, without a mistake. In nine Chinese dialects. After I l,ad visited the px-change px-change with loo Kum Shu I was passing pass-ing it the n. xt afternoon, when I saw a crowd of s..venty-five to one hundred Chinamen cone around the corner of Portsmouth square ami rush into the place in the most excited manner "t followed, believing that some'accl-ent some'accl-ent had haprened. and saw that the silk TjrtfJna which eovcrpd th rear of the |