Ms. Zohn said being married bicoastals poses a variety of challenges, not the least of which is explaining their situation.

Surely, we must include the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the hello-girl are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise to give us telephone service at half the present rates, it will afford us an illustration of applied science, which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.

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In culinary terms the flower heads are known as buzz button, Szechuan button and electric button.