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Show in Boston, whero the parent organization or-ganization is located, shows that the income for 1879, was $4,169,874 and the dividends paid were $3,-682,948. $3,-682,948. This makes the expanse of that company $487,020 for the year. Eight times the amount of thoexpenses were paid in dividends. This does not include the dividends divi-dends paid to tho stockholders in the thousands of local companies, which probably aggregate much more than those paid to the stockholders stock-holders of the parent company. It is about time to stop the worse than highway robbery committed by the telephone companies. Sa-( Una Pruss. A Salina business man made on improper proposal to a married lady heio this week and she slapped slapp-ed his face to htr satisfoctiondoying the Meteor episode far in the shade, and in addition to this the husband marched the offender into in-to the pr sence of his wife and thre made him kneel down, hold up his hands and apologize for his impudence. Such insults are becoming be-coming too common. Salina Press. The report of the Bell Telephone Tele-phone Company, just made public |