Show long european telephone lines while we have for some time past in this country been talking easily over telephone lines 1000 miles long europe is still in the earlier of such work london has for some time been connected with paris a distance of miles and paris brussels a distance of miles but so far as known nobody has talked through to brussels from london via paris although this kind of reaching onward is alic first thing an american thinks of international jealousies stand in the way a good deal and it is said that there is little hope for the present of uniting telephonically the cities of paris berlin st petersburg and other important centers the germans are progressive in this respect however and have just put up four silicon bronze telephone wires between berlin and vienna a distance of miles there is a longer line miles between berlin and konigsburg and the german administration expects to build a mile line from bodenbach to trieste while it has also been experimenting between berlin and trieste a distance longer than any namely miles |