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Show WHAT FOLLOWED. <br><br> The temptation to pique and punish unlawful curiosity is one of the strongest - the chagrin of the bitten victim is so richly deserved. The Louisville Courier Journal says.<br><br> There were some angry men in a certain Kentucky post-office a few days ago. A postal card was dropped into the letter-box addressed toe the "Rev. John Penobscot, -------." It was an ordinary card, and the postmaster was an ordinary card, and the postmaster was an ordinary postmaster. He took it up, glanced at the address, turned it leisurely over and read : ____, May 2, 1879, You, to whom this card is not addressed, and who, nevertheless, have the cheek, to read it, are a contemptible, unprincipled sneak, and a prying, pusillanimous coward. George F. Dugan. <br><br> The postmaster laid the card gently down and lounged to the other end of the house, softly whistling "Nancy Lee." In due time the clerk came upon the card, perused it, and made the neighborhood hideous with the complainings of his pet dog, which he kicked in the ribs. <br><br> How the card fared with the various route agents through whose hands it passed, it is impossible to say, nor do we know whether it was read by the woman who is postmistress of the office where the Rev. John Penobscot is supposed to get his mail; but the report is that on the day it reached there she smashed a bottle of ink, spanked the children all round and chewed up 63 cents' worth of wax. <br><br> We cannot be to [too] careful never to write on postal cards anything in the least calculated to wound the sensitive delicacies of the post-office people's feelings. |