"America alnvost extinguished the city of New In March, 1888, the great blizzard _in
York. The like of it was never before seen. Th snow completely stopped all: local traffic. tel ines leading into the city were Not a boree ora wheel could move. All the prostrated, and for. two or three days. the people of Boston and New York communicated with each other fby way of London by means of the Atlantic cables. Thus messages intended for persons three hundred miles distant were sent six'thousand miles, crossing the ocean twice.
An incident which recalls this experience to the writer's mind happened a short time ago here in England. Suppose we let the leman interested tell his own story. He soys: "Ihave suffered more or less from
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