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Show IoiU) Salisbury has recenUy expressed ex-pressed his indebtedness to Uie work of the elccttlc telegraph In governing England. It is in the fact that all the chancellories in Europe are now pracUcally conducted con-ducted by tbo service of the electric telegraph Uiat its greatest icrvice to the world Is expressed. It Is one Uilug to carry news by telegraph, and it is a much higher thing for tho premier of England to sit In his office and by the touch of his hand be put In immediate communication communi-cation with tbe leaders who are controlling con-trolling each separate section of the civilized world. Xotbing so much expresses tho accelerated movement of things today asj tho fact that the prime minister of a country can transact in .one hour the business which was fjrmerly stretched out over days, or even months, of time before it could be completed. |