Show mill UK Hrrl of Ightnlnir Ten thouiand miles In less I than k minute how Is I that for awlltnesaT Not long ago tho editor of a newspaper newspa-per In Chile wished lo find out Just how long It 1 would take torn tclezram to go from Ixmdon England to Val pnralio Chile Accordingly arrangements arrange-ments were made with the telegraph and cable companies to keep open Ibo wires Ten minutes before the message mes-sage was to be sent the wires were cleared along tho entire distance and all the ordinary communications through the en > lee were suspended At the Eh en astronomical time the dispatch was sent from London to Carratcllos whenceIt was transferred through a submarine cable to Pernam buio and from there tho llrazlllan const cable conducted tho message la Ilucnos Ayrcs where It was dlspatchal over tho South American transcontinental transconti-nental tcligrnph line arriving 01 Valparaiso Val-paraiso flfi > IUo seconds after leavIng the London oKlcc although AttiC dl I loom It had to ravel In thin short space of limo nmollnlol to nlmost 10 000 mites and tho eight word of the almanac bail to hq l repealed four tlmn in oul jour moxruphlM nnd ae II jju cntoUftHljm Ihu rgsit uuu by file meecago |