Show I 1 INGENIOUS N G ENI OUS SMUGGLERS the th pot P CF t onice a as an for their illegal hies a traffic le the tha post omee inspectors keep a sharp lookout for smuggling through the mails says a 15 washington ashington letter to the boston transcript about sealed packages chri are seized annually in the new york post office in an average year unsealed parcels are confiscated at the same office and released on the payment of fines which are equivalent to the duties some very ingenious methods me ghods are employed for transmitting dutiable articles by post not kot long ago a package from germany was found to contain a small roll of butter A wire passed through it met with an obstruction which proved to be a tin box filled with valuable jewelry probably a dozen silk handkerchiefs are found wrapped up in newspapers in every mail from china the skill exhibited by the pos postal tal clerks in detecting such contraband in closures is wonderful it seems to partake of the nature of intuition they say they do not know themselves how they do it but that a newspaper with a silk handkerchief in iv it has a sort of guilty feeling when manipulated silk stockings are mailed from france in the same manner an odd kind of smuggling is the sending of mushrooms by mail from italy they are of a peculiar kind dried and are much relished by natives of that country in ia the tha united statis states they come in email bat bags 4 and aind are easily distinguished by sm smell i ell |