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_The Daily Telegraph_ says of the Portsmouth Corporation telephone
system:--
"At present there are 1,899 subscribers and 2,528 distinct
telephones."
Why doesn't the Post Office experiment with this new sort of
telephone.
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"Yet it is necessary to state emphatically, although no representative
of a daily newspaper seems to have been under this impression, that not
for twenty years have I been so bored."
_C.K.S. in "The Sphere," on the 'Edwin Drood' trial_.
But how are the poor reporters to know so much about C.K.S. as that?
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[Illustration: COULEUR D'ORANGE.
MR. ASQUITH (_on the Riviera_). "LUCKY FOR ME THERE AREN'T ANY
'CONVERSATIONS' HERE--I MIGHT AGREE TO ALMOST ANYTHING."]
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