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Show One-Fifth of a Penny. In a recent bankruptcy case at Du j aclclorf, Ger lany, the postal admlnis-, admlnis-, tration flgurc-d ar, a creditor for the ! amount of one sliiliins. a claim for ! unpaid jtelephone charges. The divi-j divi-j dead declared was fourpence in the i pound, and thus the post office became ! entitled to one-fifth of a penny, ot I 1 2-3 pfennigs in German money. Concerning this claim, six voluminous ! letters have been written by the posuil authorities to the official receiver re-ceiver In bkruptcy, necessitating as many replie-. and the end is not yet The receiver is at a loss how to transmit trans-mit the exact sum of 1 2-3 pfennigs, ! and the pof'ial administration declines I (0 write off as a bad debt anything I hut the precise amount, including the i fraction. There is ev-.:ry prospect o- ' a dossier accumulating in this por-I por-I tentuous matter. |