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Show Mail Matter Big Item. It may be of interest to readers to know the amount of mail sent out daily from our great cities. For instance take Chicago, Illinois, where the mailing of fall catalogues started last mouth. August first the postmaster post-master reoeived the first installment of about nine thousand tons of such mail which left Chicago befora September Sep-tember first. The mail order bouses have submitted eatimalts of the amount of extra mailing which they expect to do. " To gaia an idea of how much matter mat-ter this is," said the postmaster, "forty-five traiua to ten cars will be required to carry it out of the city. Each car contains twenty tons. Counting seventy feet to a car, the train will covers distance of over sis miles if placsd end to end." Under ordinary conditions from,' seven to nine hundred tons of mail is sent out each day from tbtit city. |