Show postal statistics a mass of figures P if you want to W washington reab an off official leial fairy talo tale in ures urea of the nations nal lons commercial ress get a copy of the latest bunch of 0 post statistics just issued by A L Law lawshe slie the third assistant post master general itow how lie ho got all tho the figures on ono mono page Is still a mystery but ho he certainly succeeded ded in III piling up tip enough millions and billions to make any ones head swim counting postage stamps must bo be a I 1 lol A like counting tile the grains of sand at the sea at any rate these calef careful ua counters of undo uncle sams post postoffice office department part parti ment nent have found out that last year the department t issued of the little sticky things ati an overheated figurer fl gurer who work for tile tho post postoffice office department figured out that it if these little squares of paper were placed end to end they would run a couple of thousand toot fact over miles A footnote to the statistics shows shown that undo uncle sam barn begin postage stamps until july 1 1847 tha first year y ear he succeeded in putting ou on the market last year he issued times that many a fairly decent increase in the post postoffice office business in lafty two years the biggest figure on the page la Is tho the chae ae that designates the number of pieces of mail matter that wore were mailed in tho the I 1 cited states last year choso cheso to tilled A largo proportion or of tieso consisted ot of new newspapers simpers tor for which no stamps are used but in addition to tile tho stamps which were sold a tiny rillo rifle ot of stamped envelopes and wrappers wits I 1 sold by the department these undo sam began to sell in 1852 when ho he placed a round on tile tho mar ket tho ilio figures for tho the dinall handled were begun in 1886 when uncle tincle sam carried pieces ot or mall the figures havo have quadrupled in III a lit tip th more than twenty years in 1879 when uncle san saina post office started business with hen jainle prank frank iiii its as postmaster general there were seventy five and in the first year of their operation they did worth of business at lin an ox ex P panso enso of since then tho the balance has moved to tho the other alele of the ledger and tor for tho the last year tile the revenues of the department were the pretty little sum of while the expenditures were the number of post offices jumped front from 75 to 61 1581 the extent of the post routes from 1875 to tho the miles of mall mail service performed from a little over to and the compensation of the postmasters front from ato tile the most astounding growth wag waa marked by the rural free delivery service it was begun in 1897 with 83 routes covering 1843 miles at an expense ot of last year it had grown to routes with ralles miles and costing |