Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — Telephone vs. Telegraph. [ARTICLE]

Telephone vs. Telegraph.

It appears that communication by telephone to great distances, though an interesting and wonderful scientific achievement, is not likely to prove commercially important. Estimates by Dr. Wietlisbach place the cost of a telephone line 1,256 miles long, over which speech is possible, at over $250,000; and to make such a line profitable it must earn a dollar a minute, a brief conversation thus costing $5 or $lO. The telegraph works at this distance at about a tenth of the cost, and is cheaper for all distances of more than 300 miles, the economy being with the telephone below about that limit. Dr. Gross, physician at St, Vincent’s Hospital, Baltimore, Mff.j - considers Reff Star Cough Cur? perfectly harmless, being purely vegetable and entirely free from opiates, poisons, and other narcotics. Other professionals also indorse it as prompt, safe, and sure. Price, twenty-five cents a bottle. The danger of leaving a light burning near an open window was exemplified in a decidedly costly manner in a Brooklyn apartment house. The wind blew a curtain against a lighted gas jet, a blaze followed, and, as at the time the tenants of the several flats were all away from home, the fire hurned undisturbed nntil it had damaged the building and furniture to the extent of about $9,000. A little thought shown in shutting the window or turning off the gas would have prevented what was. doubtless a great misfortune to three families,— Fire and Water. A literary gentlemen, when a witness in a suit at law, was insultingly treated by a shallow and conceited lawyer named Hawkins, and took his revenge off and handing to the opposing counsel these lines: When Nature formed Hawkins she calleAfor her shears; " ...... "We must shortenthis fellowT^she said, “in the ears But added, at last; “We will let the ears pass; What is long for a maiLjA.AastJrlßllt’ietJUiass.” V . The magical effects of St. Jacobs Oil in removing soreness and stiffness make it invaluable at all times. Rheumatism and Neuralgia promptly yield to it.