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Show Tho Arab and tho Telephone. Wn had a party of Arabs along with us and took them all over a great newspaper office, writes a New Yorker. Everything was wildly astonrshlng ta them. They had Imagined that tha Koran Ko-ran contained all the wisdom and knoxle.lt. of the world, yot her waa ' the telephone, the electrotype, the I priming press. The plai waa a verlt- I able, encliiiiiier'a cantle to thorn. They ' J would never have believed In the lei- I ephone If 1 had not called up their , hotel and got one of their own party , at the end of the wire. The dervish who hail come along aa Imld as well aa pious When he heard th:il his friend live in I lis away waa Utlklng ? through the limti umeiit he made a i dash at It. He was greatly excited 1 und yelled In a megaphone voice, lis . thought we were tricking him. hut ' hero was his friend talking Arable. Ill ' rolled his eyes at me In a despairing i manner and then began a eenrrh fni I devils, being quite convinced that th 'phone wna an Invention of rt.itun. |