Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1901 — Telephone Speed. [ARTICLE]

Telephone Speed.

Where the telephone wires are overland the speed of transmission Is at the rate of 16,000 miles a second; where the wires are through cables under the sea, the speed Is not more than 6,020 miles a second. If the cook breaks only one dish a week. It Is on Sunday, when the man of the house Is home to hear the crash, and grumble about it.