Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-29

phone bureau Of the French orn-
ment, win be the longest in IA
tional telephone system in the y
1t will therefore requi' an exceedI4s-
ly powerful current to make the mes
sages distinctly audible; those We are
now obtaining are far from that. The
current is far too feeble
How shall we remedy this diff
Guilty? That is a thing which only a
technical commission can determine
thereby illustrating the beauties Of
government management, for the mo-
mentous question which NJ. Crescitz
declared required a technical com
mission for its decision was as to the
size of copper wire necessary to be
used, and that had all been figured
out by the Bell engineers years be
fore. Furthermore, even with the
minute current used in telephoning,
the perfection of the American sys-
TEN is such that conversations over
lines more than 1000 miles long are
distinctly heard The current EN-
ployed is almost too slight to be
measured; a comparison often made
to show its character is that the cleo
trical energy which lights a 16-candle
power incandescent lamp Is five mil
lion times as great as the electrical
energy In a telephone receiver at the
end OF 4 thousand-mile line.
The French, however, Oh whom we
would expect quite different things,
are very backward in telephony. The
service in Paris has been so bad that
subscribers have formed leagues to
compel reformation of the telephone
girl and her employer, even when the
employer is the government. The
Paris correspondents of London pa
pers declare that, though pretty well
hardened to poe service by their ex-
peFience at home even the slow and
Indifferent opera rs of London are
preferable to tie intractable and i'm
pertinent young women who worry
the PaIisians who are paying hun
bred dollars year for the privilege of
being Haunted by them.
When other topics have been tenn
porarily exhausted their telephone
service affords a never-failing subject
for complaint to Londoners. They
have the p0stoffice department lines
as well as those of the national com
pany, and are just beginning TO APP
preciate that perhaps the dual system
is the cause of considerable of their
trouble. Another cause which obsery-
ing Londoners are pointing out to one
another is that the subscribers them
selves lave no idea of how to use the
telephone. One restricting influence
is, of course, the duh conservatism
of many British business men aud of
hcials, to Use the words of pro-
gressiva and disguised Briton.
Perhaps the most Ainericanized
telephone user in ureat BRITAIN IS
King Edward The employment or
Or. Bells invention always seems to
strike him as natural and proper
Not long ago a party OF tourists from
"the States" appeared at Bucking
ham Palace armed with letter frons
the secretary of our London Embas-
~ and wanted to inspect the royal
residence. They were allowed to 80
no further than the stables, because
the Lord Chamberlain, who must is
sue their permit, was out OF town.
Nobody knew where he could be
reached, but one OF the party suggest
ed that the Lord ChamberIains per
nit might be dispensed with by OBJ
tanning the consent of the King him
self
When the palace official to whom
this proposition was made recovered
from the collapse into which it threw
him, he solemnly assured the visitors
that this was impossible since His
majesty was attending the races at
Newmarket. One of the Americans,
not in the least phased, inquired
whether His Majesty co,ld not be
communicated with by telephone
The Official recovered from bats sec
ond shock enough to stmis tina, such
thing might be possible, and after q
good Geal OF palavering the young
man in charge of the palace switch
board was persuaded TO risk H."
The kings reply was almost Inn
mediate II the Americans were prop
erly authenticated, they were, by
bis majesty's comamnds.' 10 Ne a.
lowed to go over the whole ..a Nce
Without being subjected to Irritating
scrutiny
Pope Plus, in SO many ways one Of
the most progressive of Europeans,
employs the telephone constantly. No
doubt II does much to relieve the Sc.
cluslou which must often be trying
10 man OF his naturally lirile act
WITTY OF body and mind. WGen Car
dinal Sarto, Patriarch Of Venice, went
20 attend the concla,e in Rome, after
Pope Leo's death, two wears ago, he
babe his sisters goodbye for three
weeks. He was elected pope within a
fortnight and has never seen Venice
since; but his sisters, With whom he
lived before he entered the Vatican
have moved their home to the eternal
city. taking a dwelling so near their
brother that every day he may come
out upon a balcony that is within
sight of their windows and greet them
FROM q distance,
The installation of a telephone in
1.-THE Vatican is characteristic OF the
"dignihed modernity of his holiness
Not only does he employ it in the di
rartinr of The ntnlfitnHn of Nasf In