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Show One' of the most important measures to come before Congress will be Senator Edmunds' Postal Telegraph bill. His aim is to bring the wires into the service of the postal system, and to that end he would create -a board consisting of the Secretaries of State and War and the Postmaster-General, under whose supervision super-vision four main lines would be constructed, construct-ed, connecting Washington with . the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest and South, branch lines to he added as required. re-quired. The board would also fix the rates for messages. The Senator does not contemplate a government monopoly, for the bill provides that nothing in . it shall be construed to prohibit private persons per-sons or corporations from engaging in the telegraph business. - Nevertheless, it is likely that in the end the Government would absorb all competing lines.- Assuredly, As-suredly, postal telegraphy would at once bring about a great reduction of rates, and as that is to be desired by everybody save the stockholders of the existing corporations, it is certain that there will be a wide popular demand for the passage of Senator Edmunds' bill. A physician in Maryland put a human . skull in a tree for safe-keeping during a temporary absence and forgot it. When he thought of it again and went to get it he found that a sparrow had taken possession pos-session and raised a family in it. |