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Show MILLIONS OF TELEGRAMS A YEAR England Sends Almost 94,000,000 In Twelvemonth, t 1 1 According to tho figures published by the German Imperial post office tho record of sending the most tejo-grams tejo-grams In a year belongs ib the people of England, who dispatched almost 94,000.000 during the year 1906. The United States came next, with 65,-600,000, 65,-600,000, and then France with 58,000,-000. 58,000,-000. Germany occupied fourth place, with 52,500,000 telegrams. The Japanese Jap-anese figures aro 24,500,000, and those for Russia only 28,000,000, Including all the country's Asiatic possessions. But Russia paid for them the large sum of $20,6'6,000, while Germany's outlay was only $8,750,000. During the same period the American companies com-panies took In roughly $29,000,000. Of the European countries Spain, for Its size, has tho smallest telegraphic traffic, tho smallest number of miles ot wire and the smallest income proportionately pro-portionately to her population. So far as mileage Is concerned, tho United States leads all the other nations, but no one who lms resided abroad over falls to note how much more frequently frequent-ly English and Germans use the telegraph tele-graph for Htiort distance communications communica-tions than Is tho caso here, says the Now York Post. Of course, the development devel-opment of tho telephono In this country, coun-try, nlso far ahead of anything similar In Europe, accounts In largo measure for this ftato of affairs. |