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Show the mails come from foreign countries. Nearly every mall pouch from abroad contains live stock la the shape of bugs of some sort, and many of the clerks ia the foreign department are up on ento- J mology as well as expert In the use of . dlalnfectanta Philadelphia Record. CUBAN BUG SENT HEBE BT KAIL A Cuban lantern bug, which clerks declare was as? large as a stag beetle. Is one of the strange things sent to the dead letter office In Washington a few days ago from the local postofflce. The bug, which is of the harmless sort that senoritas frequently place In the hair for decorative purposes on fete days, came through the malls In a bulky-looking package. The envelope was not properly sealed, and .when the end of it was torn open for Inspection the big bug scrambled out. Clerks who had never seen one of the bugs were afraid of It, and it was carefully care-fully picked up in a handful of scrap paper and placed In a small box. It is against the postal regulations to send live stock through the malls, and the Government will not assume responsibility responsi-bility for the safe delivery of such, so the bug was sent to Washington. The bug came into the foreign mails department, depart-ment, which is In charge of Jerome Le-her. Le-her. He says that a big percentage of the ftranye things that pw through |