Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-07-25
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The British postoffice. which controls the telephones Is not. seemingly. mak- ing & success of the enterprise. So far as satisfactory service is concerned IL is said that within a week more than 5ce complaints of delay in the use of the government telephone trunk lines were registered with the National Telephone company. The complaints referred to delays Of from half an hour Jo two hours over the whole of Great Britain. IL took an hour and forty minutes to make connection between London and Cfravesend: two hours and six minutes to get reply to the question Are you theree" between Lond.,1 and Msnchss- ter: from Bolton to Bury. twenty min utes by rail. tfty-fcur minutes were re- quired to get a connection Pcs,cfiice calls are for three minutes and may es sNtended to six. when. no matter how far the conversation has progressed the talkers are cut of and new connection must be made.
 Samuel Hnl. who has the distinction of being the second man from the west to b. chosen as overSeer Of Harvard university. Is president of the Minn-- sota Harvard club. He Is also a mem ber of the following clubs; Tne Uni versity club and the Harvard club Os New York: the Cosmos club. of Wash ineton. n. C-: the Minnesota club of St. Paul. the Minneapolis club. of Min neapolis. the Silver Bow club. of Butte. Montana. and other local clubs MT. Hiu married in lSSS Mary. daughter of James J. Hin of St Paul. the president of the Great North Tn railway.
 
 Minnie Tracey. who IS to come e the Metropolitan opera houss in New York next season with the singers engaged fer the English performance. is an American who has been hcard more frequently abroad than m her own country Miss Tracey Is a woman of beauty and talent. and has sung with considerable success in various Euro pean cities She also possesses the agreeable. if not directly profitable rep utaticn of being highly popular with 'he most exclusive members Ot she American colony m Paris.
 
 \ h,tls New York girl in descrioing the hiE storm of the other night said she tho1slt t beautiful-it was 50 ike the storm she saw when she was tskrr \ Co the thtatr~. little boy while the storm was 'tu.~ took stand by syia- low that he might not miss D Ait ot it. His mother had hard work to S,l him to leave the window and fetch her something from uUstairs. .'An night. sighed the little boy. at last consent iug-"Rut. please God. don't do any thing more until get back" one uf the leading mandsrtns in the disturbed city of Pekin Is young man torn and raised in this country. h Jhr state cf Tennessee. a fact that ought to work for .he safety of the AEsTh'ans in the Chinese capital He Is Frank Carl. W hc went to Europe Co live With his mo:Ie~ in ISIS and continu.d ou .o Chisa in service cf a relative. Sir Rob ert Hart. then and now inspector gen. aral of customs in China. M~. carl is rscW third in rank to Sir Roblri
 
 A silver egg steamer. which can be operated on the breakfast laDie. is ,N- hl'a.t.-l a Es NeN. CsS sstnoc'~. -1srS- 8 6eubie boiler and an alcchcl lamp. aal is . handsome articis ct table gar niture. There are so many dinersrt opinions as to how long an egg should be cooked that this invention has been made to enable each member of a fam fly .o cook his eggs himself. ans for