| Show ix 0 THE MAILS howo no vt at ili ilia l fa trilok va U ift be barn T tap M 1101 1 fire york N elti cs are sent acot very 67 day through ilia ho mails among idez I 1 0 idlet A beit bad and strangest articles received for delivery nt at file now I 1 ork post office am two ino ina baby they came cajoto to hand on mail monday ay morning muck much to the surprise Burp nii of the officials oni cial who open ed cd the ibo packaged no mo H 14 S ri tat purdys room to is the 1101 uld cu finally shop of tho the postal dc art ell I 1 it C I 1 n 5 tho 11 receptacle for all the 0 queer aai t things and irregular stuff bluff on i aly received irom from all parr pit of 0 iho I 1 a world by persons ignorant of tho the rostal roslet laws and by many in ia defiance of the iho known keen a regulations as to matter we e pet got some queer lucer things by mail I 1 CAU can tell you said raid assistant super so per dent jones then fixing hit ayo 1 lit u tho the reporter he now wb what at would V it yo you think if I 1 told you wo sometimes get tonda toads through the cunil A Is you laugh why M ftc a gel lots of acm LEU nod cartridges cartridge detonating powder torpedoes fireworks firework a sky rock eta and caca youve got thom them bad you observed tho the reporter I 1 I 1 mean in j just at I 1 a y gitlic implied M mr r jo jones uca 3 j juh aa 6 g grim hnton ns benlo n alet aa I 1 me toll you it was about eight tea years a I 1 ago we received by anit ft varieties I 1 0 or life iva anak eq 1 ell elf wo we wrote to for instructions aa 03 to their and 11 yby you on kin kill them rigia rigl 1 are noayl ft R asked k J the reporter TC i icci you i see they reached us ua in ia 1 transit unit imd wo we have bato no DO power to destroy any mail matter under such buch circumstances the stink a really ought to have been killed RC at the poat it often they were walli what want instructions did you get acu ecu I 1 wo we were ordered otic bcd to send them be on to washington and they finally deposited at tho the smithsonian same of the them died but one specimen is still aln 0 0 were they venomous snakes I 1 yes am wo we barned afterwards froni from washington of their characters why ono one ass it good itce sized well I 1 rattlesnake jhc thc they came through the mails in if tin calls CADS punctured doaa so as to 0 o admit tho the necessary air now this alligator is ia a harmless kind or of kallir to vicious cop I tire alligators just jual received uro tire really specimens they nee aro about fand hand market marked nith yellow allow rings ringa from bead to tail tile crea lures cre ce funded ill bialt flut IrOll bobea ca with perforations for air the diorec lines viera in ono one WM was to bo be seat to mrs idea elders Flut buels avenue aud and tho the eilor to lo a student at vassar poughkeepsie N Y tho the post office authorities permitted a clerk vio a he lives dar r haibe h avenue to deliver by hand the alligator addressed to io ita mrs r III peacefully enjo conjor ing bi til the comfortable quite 1 lent en assigned him in tile tho post office it is A question it hether ia allega ship i nill ill cear reach the fair 1 I of the iho vassar wh what allulli ne he do with wilb I 1 U Is oh off inice a pel ailt mid sir jones thu laughed at ilia idea now noor let me conlin d the officer 0 a once had a cat sent the mails a fact we took amk it out of the bag fe acil I 1 I 1 I 1 it I 1 and brought it u up in clio office nul nail chat cat IN aa ollain thu enotha of a gobig race or post ollie cam la in tho the su r ased by deatra pardy anti jones alic c stop stupid of citizens who patronize tile the post past aru are reclined anti and ilia hi u work calta calls fur for peculiar skill ciuda aud a large amount if some timm times the itic receipt of bose crew turca through tile the mails lends to io it very humorous correspondence act cen new lew lork ork nod washington wai it Is ia not dot gi g acridly known where the far bind comte from as ilia on tills this class nl 1 kirmil matter are arc nhit is coiled called killed lit ai tile the reaming flo flon now is 18 it such queer things al are SO at out simply through the iho stupidity or can of country postmasters wo ilia baso bac to keep a sharp to lo 10 on HH all 1 suspicious parcels parc cla and io in opening i them vc no take the iho grea leat care it is 14 no trivial bust business niss to bo be able to 0 o dis poe of af the heterogeneous inns or of which billy Illy people ahr 91 into inlo the mails mail you ine gio tit they c tako take thur chances rh a I 1 u or of ilia nuisance and t r tible they cause to 10 the empl CM does docs mrs mra riders know keen who sent her cho alligator V 1 I think not wit ur mr jones I 1 site sho it has 0 ao an idea that a friend traveling ili ia borth orth carolina it ni as a memento of the trip 11 |
