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Show TELEGRAPHIC POSTAGE. London Chronicle. The Idea that a letter placed In a suitable receptacle could be conveyed by electricity at a rata well nigh comparable com-parable to that of the express trains ec-ems to have struck an Itallr.n experi-menter, experi-menter, Pisclcelll by name. The nearest near-est approach to the system Is that of "telcpherage." but here the rate of pro- i gression Is, of "course, relatively slow! In the case of the Pisclcelll system it is ! intended that the letters thould be conveyed con-veyed in boxes composed of aluminum along wires arranged on the overhead system analogous to that-seen in the tramways of many towns. Experiments are to be made with the system between Rome and Naples, but there are so many very obvious difficulties in the way of the scheme becoming generally useful that we ma await the results of these experlmentiVbefore hailing the invention as a benefit to mankind at large. - |