y lines Paris 8,306 subscribers, and, arranged in a stellate poly- at the end of 1891, 9,635; while gon, thatis to say, that per- the figure that it will be neces- mit of connecting any two sary to put down for the be- subscribers in passing ginning of 1895 will be 14,000, through two auxiliary… … to permit from 150,000 to to give full and rapid satis- 200,000 persons to become faction to the public will subscribers to the telephone, constitute an ideal as irreal- izable as the philosopher’s the latter would no longer render any service, in conse- stone and perpetual motion. quence of the…
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