Show The other da lay day a clerk in the thc dead lead letter office in Washington tore the tho wrappers from a mysterious i- i ous oils looking package which had not been claimed and found a small box with several holes in it He TIe put it to lo his ear car aud and shook it to see whether it was wasat at as infernal machine or not when the lid flew off and an immense tarantula sprang upon his shoulder out of the box He lie it off and then there was' was wasa a slinking shaking up in the department The lad lady clerks tumbled over oyer each other to climb on the desks The creature was found and killed after a while but tho the account says a veteran in the dead letter office declares that there were never nc so many silk stockings stockings stock stol ings seen in that office before To the thc credit of tho the west it must be lie added that the mysterious m pa package package pack pack- k- k n age ge came camo from Italy Haly |