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Show A Quick-Delivery Letter. I Is a cut Ions fat",, that a century and n half ago a letter traveled much faster than ev. r it has done since. It was In 17. Y1 that Lord March made a heavy wnger that he would cause n letter let-ter to be conveyed 100 miles within an l oin His Ldrdehlp engaged n score of cricketers, all expert throwers and catchers, had the mlsplve Inclosed in a ball, and arranging his men at intervals In a circle, got them to throw the ball as swiftly as pbfeSlble from one to another an-other At the ond of the hour It was found thnt the letter had traveled almost al-most exactly 120 miles. Era Magazine j |