Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-07-25
Topics of the Hour.

The British postofice. which controls the telephones. is not. seemingly. mak- ing a success of the enterprise. so far as satisfactory service is concerned It IS said that within a week more than TOO | complaints of delay in the use of the | government telephone trunk lines were l registered with the National Telephone company The complaints referred to delays of from half an hour to two hours over the whole of Great Britain. It took an hour and forty minutes to make connection between London and i iCravesend: two hours and six minutes | to get reply to the question Are you ! there2' between London and Manches- ter. from Bolton to Bury, twenty min utes by rail ffty-four minutes were re- quired to get connection. Postoftice calls are for three minutes and may he ! sxtended to six, when. no matter how far the conversation has progressed the takers are cut off and new connection must be made.
 Samuel Hill. who has the distinction af being the second man from the west
 to be chosen as overseer of Harvard
 university. IS president of the NIinne-
 sota Harvard club. He is also mem ber of the following clubs: The Uni versitv club and the Harvard club. os New York. the Cosmos club. of Wash
 ington. n. C.. the Minnesota club. O. St. Paul. the Minneapolis club. of Min eapoIis- the Silver Bow club. of Butte. , Montana. and other local clubs. MT Hill married in 1888 Mary. daughter of - James J. Hill. of St Paul. the president % of the Great Northern railway
 
 r Ninni= Tracey. who is to come to the p NetropoIitan opera house in New York s next season with the singers engaged - for the English performances. is an American who has been heard more P freauently abroad than in her owr - country. Miss Tracey is woman oi % beauty and talent. and has sung with considerable success in various Euro s pean cities. She also possesses the agreeable. if not directly profitable rep e. utation of being highly popular witt r the most exclusive members Of sh' 5 American colony in Paris
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 a X HstIe New York girl in describius P the big storm of the other night sai' D she thought it beautiful-it was so h!o ,5 the storm she saw when she was take' .g to tho theatre little boy. while th ,r storm was en-" took a stand by win s tow that he might not miss ? Dit ot il s His mother had hard work to sel hin
 Co lsave the window and fetch he Is something from uustairs. All right ~ sighed the little boy. at>last consent ir ins-'BIt. please God. don't do any
 thing more until l get back"
 One of the leading mandarins in tn l. disturbed city of Pekin is a young ma
 horn and raised in this country, in tn .b state of Tennessee. fact that ought 10 work for the safety of tho America n a. in the Chinese capital He is Fran 70 Carl who went to Europe to live wit ,, his mo.Ier in 1878. and continus d cn |
 C'hrsa in service of a relative. Sir Rob
 ert Hart. then and now inspector gen m eiaI of customs in China. M". Carl
 ncw third in rank to Sir Rob-rt
 a \ silver egg steamer. which can b l7 operated on the breakfast taDle. is eN ,f hibitcd n a New York window. It na
 a double boiler and an alcohol IamI
 arl IS a handsome article ci table gar
 niture There are so many differar
 opinions as to how long an egg shoul
 he cooked that this invention has bee h. made to enable each member of fam
 fly 70 cook his eggs himself. ana fo
 just a s iong or short time as he please.