A Telegraph Story

I think the most curious fnct, taken ■ ïcr, Unit T ever heard of the electrio telègraph, was told me by eashièr of ak of Engl&hd. You may havo hdivl of it. I nm surc it dl - i'v 9 to bo. " Once upoii a time," then, on n ccrtnin Saturday night, tho folks at the bank coüld iiot muke tho balance como right, byjust 6100. Thisiaa eericras matter in tliat littie efftablighñient; I do not mean thu cash, but tho mistako in arithmetic ; for it occasions b Wörki of scruntiy. An error in baiancing has been known, I am told, to keep a dele:j;t;on of clerks f rom each offloe at work sometimos throtlgh tho wholo night. A hue and cry waa of courge made affer this L100, :is it' tho old adv in Thread-rieedle street would be in zt'Ltu for want of it irtickily on Sunday morning, a clerk, (in the middlo of thé sermón, I clare say, if tho truth were known,) tolt a suspioion of tho truth dart through his ni'inl guicker than any flash ot' the telegrapb itself. Ho told tho chicf cashier on IVloinluy morning, that perhapa the uiistake might havo oocurred in paoking some boxes of specie for tho West Indies, which had boen sent to iSouthnmptou for shipment. The sugs;ostion was imtudiately acted upon. Here yas i race, lightning against steaiD, with oight and forty hours given. InBtantly t!u. wirc aski'd, "Whethei: suco a . h.id li ft theharbor." " Just weighing ancht r " was tho aatfwer. " Stop hor! fruiiticully slioutcd the olectrio telegraph. .It waa dono. " llave up on deck certain boxea markodso and so ; weigh tliera carofully." ïhey wero weighed : ftná one - tho doliuquont - was found bv jnst on packet of a hundred ■ lian it ■ :i :i bff, ■ líe uiystenous tclogra] b. ■' folks wore debitod with just L100 ruorc, and the orror cörri fted without ever l looking into the 1 oxes or delaying the voy;igo by an hovir. Nqiy i!iit is what may be called "doing bu.-iue s.