We pay the same price for it as we do for the potatoes, or for one-third of the hay crop, or for one-eighth of the corn.

Out of every nickel spent for electrical service, one cent goes to the telephone.

We could settle our telephone bill, and have several millions left over, if we cut off every fourth glass of liquor and smoke of tobacco.

Whoever rents a typewriting machine, or uses a street car twice a day, or has his shoes polished once a day, may for the same expense have a very good telephone service.

Merely to shovel away the snow of a single storm in 1910 cost the city government of New York as much as it will pay for five or six years of telephoning.
This almost incredible cheapness of telephony is still far from being generally perceived, mainly for psychological reasons.