Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1899 — Costly Cablegrams. [ARTICLE]

Costly Cablegrams.

Sixteen thousand dollars is the record price paid for a cablegram, that price having been paid for a message sent by Henniker Heaton to Australia In behalf of the British Parliament Benter’s account of the murderer Deemlng*s trial, 4,000 words, cost SB,000. An 1,800-word dispatch from London to Argentina cost $7,500. The most expensive private message so far is that sent by the King of Italy to the .Duke of Abruzzi of Rio Janeiro, Informing him of the death of his father, the late Duke of Kosta, which cost $2,670., If a superstitious man Is single, everything is a sign of marriage, but after he marries everything is a sign of death.