Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 13, 16 January 1894 — The Use of the Telephone. [ARTICLE]
The Use of the Telephone.
Some interesting and ratber snrprising statistics on tbe use of | the ielephone in Enropean eoun- | try have been collected. In London, the oldest commercial city of the world, only 1.6 per- | sons in 1,000 use the telephoue. { The telephone is nsed most in : conntries where service is owned > or control!e<l by the State. īn Germany, Switzerland, Norway j and Sweden, from 100 to 100 per- | I sous in every 100 000 of the i populaliou are subscribers. In Great Britaia, ouly persons iu 100,000 use the telephone. In Berliu 11, and in Puris 4.2 out of | every 1.000 inhabitants use the telephone.