; Cot A and Wlicit^me, of England, fir^l Applied the electric lelfpnph 10 public 2 lmsinfi« in IMS. In 18M, the first pub*' lie trkgraph line in America tM erected Washington and Kallimore, iml *inoe then, ire nwy truly asseit, that the | whole world ha# been electrified by the invention. It i* but 17 yeiw jtincc the first line of 44 miles vis eri'ctcd, and now there are no hm than 50,000 miles of line in operation in America. What an as- 'l ; founding development of the agencira for ! 4 rapid commnnication.—Sri^ntijte Ameri* ,tlVM., A RftceNT traveler in Australia records, , the following anecdote; lt;Jack,” said a men to a lad just entering bis teena **jour father is drowrtcd.”M Darn it, he's got my knife in his pock-et,” said the young hopeful t