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Show EFFECTS A LARGE SAVING. New Two-Cent Pottage Rate to Britain Means Much, to People, Now York. Ono result of tho now two-cent postngo rato to Ilrifuln, according ac-cording to Postmnttor Morgan, will ho tho saving of $1,350 a day to the senders of lottors. On 40,000 pieces of mail tho dlffor-enca dlffor-enca of thrco cents on each pleco represents rep-resents a saving to tho senders of $1,200 a day. Tho yearly saving amounts to $438,000, It Is estimated that about 5,000 pieces of mall for tho Up I ted Kingdom nro dally sent by tho cities whoso foreign letters do not pass through tho forolgn branch here. That Increases tho saving to nil tho peoplo of the United States to $1,350 n day of $492,760 n year. Nobody has yot attempted to flguro tho oxact cost of carrying a lottor from San Frnnclsco or from Now York to Indon. It would bo 'practically 'prac-tically Imposslblo to fix tho cost with precision, as tho proportionate amount of labor dovoted to tho ono letter by tho largo number of mon who handln It, togcthor with Its Bhnro of tho mall wagon, railroad and steamship trnnt-portntlon trnnt-portntlon cost, would havo to- bo figured. fig-ured. For this reason It It n question whothcr tho two-cont rato will ho n losing or profltnbto venture to the fed-oral fed-oral government, |