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Show fllllons of Telegrams In 1903. It Is Just sixty years ago slnco tho first telegraphic message was sent by the Morso system from Baltlmoro to Washington, and tho first message by the Atlnntlc submarine cablo was dispatched dis-patched six years nftorward that Is to say, In Juno, 1850. Slnco then tho use of tho telegraph has developed at a morvclous rate, until nt the present tlmo a million messnges aro sent over tho world's lines every twenty-four hours. According to somo returns recently re-cently Issued tho number of telegrams tele-grams dispatched In all countries In 1903 reached tho enormous total of 3G4.848.474. As a user of tho telegraph Great Britain heads tho list with 92,-471,000 92,-471,000 dispatches, and United States Is second with 91,391,000, and France comes third with 48,114,151. Germany, Russia, Austria, Belgium and Italy follow In tho order named. |