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Show tonit-tJIitiinro Jlu'K A ettcr sent flora New York ti Dangkok, Slam, travels ovcrUitu to San Francisco and thonco by water, reaching reach-ing Us destination In about forty-three day3. having been carried nearly 13,000 miles. A letter mailed hero for Ado-lalde, Ado-lalde, Australia, also goes via San Francisco, travels 12.845 miles, and is delivered usually within 35 days. Now York mall destined for Calcutta goes by way of London, traveling 11,120 miles in 20 days, while mall sent from this city to Capo Town, South Africa, goes 125 miles further in two days' less tlmo. Mail communication between be-tween New York and Hong Kong ordinarily or-dinarily consumes ono month of tlmo: tno letters go by way of San Francisco, and cover 10,500 miles ot distance To reach Melbourne Australia, from this city, a letter will travel 12.2C5 miles in About 32 days, and to reach Sydney a tetter will travel 11,670 miles In 31 days. The mall route from Now York to Yokohama, via San Frnnclsco, Is 7,348 miles Ions, and about 22 days are consumed In transit. To go to Honolulu Hono-lulu from this city a letter travels 5.C15 miles In 13 days, Leaving New York op steamer days, mall matter is cched-uicd cched-uicd to reach Rome In. about P days, Madrid In ten days, London and Liverpool Liv-erpool In eight daya, Rotterdam In nine days, St. Petersburg In eleven days, Berlin In nluo days, and Athms and I Alexandria In fourteen daya. Communication Com-munication with South American porta Is much slower. It takes twenty-four days for a letter to go from New York to Rio Janetro, which Is only about to piles further from this city than Is Alexandria. Mall matter going from New York to Buenos Ayres, which is 8.C4G miles dlBtant, consumes 29 or 30 days. Now York Times. |