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Show j CAPITAL CHATTER International Postal Cards Other oie. Washington, 24. Assistant Secretary Secre-tary French suies tbat the new regulations regu-lations adut.ud for me weighing and aradinn ot imported sugars ha b?en attended witn sat U factory results. Already governtneul has saved JO.-000.000 JO.-000.000 this year. The postomcti department has made arrangements to place the international in-ternational poelal cards on sale on tbe 1st of December. The price of tii cards will be 2c., acd they may be used without additional postage, to any com try wbicb is a member of tbe Postal Union. Tne enrda are printed in blue, but in other respects tbc-y are similar m appearance to the card now in local ue. Tne entire revenue derived irom lbe eaie ot ttete card;, forms prt of ti ; e ptetal revenues of tbw country. Tne Uu-sl reports !r m various offices indicate that about twice as many pwial cards are mailed to foreign countries froai tbe United States as come mtber from abroad. Thia indicates tbat this feature of international postal arrangements is working directly di-rectly to the profit of the United States in tbe way of revenue. Hitherto Hith-erto the sender of a postal card to a foreign country has been under tbe necessity of athxing an additional one-oenl one-oenl stamp. An anti-southern republican association asso-ciation has been formed by Arkansas republicans of Washington. The preamble uuder v:hicb Ihey organized is to the efiect that tbe southern republican re-publican organization is net ol the kind to inspiro respect, since it is representative re-presentative neither of northern nor southern republican feeling, but was started for aeirish purposes only. The Arkansas organization means to meet this lack of what is considered necessary to the southern republican organizition, and a committee of two was appointed to confer with other organizations, and with representative men known to be loyal republicans, for the purpose of strengthening the organization and thus tflectir.g the end desired. |