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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 381, 16 March 1880, Page 3

An interesting trial was made, says the Scientific American, with Bell telephones, December 2Gth, between Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana, a distance of 108 miles. The wires of the American Union Telegraph Company were used, and the experiment proved conclusively the utility of Bell telephones for distances within 100 miles. Conversation between the exchange offices of the two cities was maintained throughout the day. A circle of 100 miles radius, with New York as a centre, includes all the western part of Connecticut as far as New Haven, with its numerous large and growing and cities ; the Hudson River cities as far as Hudson, all the cities and towns of New Jersy ; Wilmington in Delaware ; and Philadelphia, Reading, Easton, Scranton, and other large places in Pennsylvania. A slight addition to the radius, still without much exceeding the distance between Dayton and Indianapolis, include Hartford on the North-cast 'and Baltimore on the south-west. All these great centres of population and trade are thus already within possible telephonic reach of New York ;. and it is quite within the limits of possibility that the end of the current year may see business men in this city deal directly, by word of mouth, with customers scattered all wocr this wide nwh of country.

The actress Mile. Berthe Legrand, one of the prettiest girls on the French stage, was brutally assaulted by the concierge of the house, where her sister lay ill, on the occasion of a viae; she has taken an action for damages against the landlord for half a million of francs. Were she able to plend ber own case, she would soon convert the jury to award her double- that sum.