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Show ODD THINGS SENT BY EXPRESS. Everything From Candy to Calves Shipped Clear Across Country. "Dogs by express." said the traveler, "are not uncommon shipments. There are dog crates made nowadays especially espe-cially designed for such uses, with with places in tnem for food and drink en route. "Kxpress companies occasionally get snakes to carry, and birds. First and last they get, besides the innumerably more familiar packages and boxes, all manner of things, including livestock; all of which I knew as well as anybody else, and still it did surprise me a little lit-tle when I saw going along in an express ex-press wagon here in New York a while ago a calf in a crate, says the New-York New-York Sun. "The expressman had considerately put this c rate with the calf in it at one side of the wagon and at the rear, wh re air would come to it on two sides, but there was the usual miscellaneous miscel-laneous assortment of stuff packed around the crate and covering the top of it. The wagon was packed full and the calf in the crate was to the ex-presman ex-presman evidently just one item in the load, though the load did look strange to me going down the street with that calf looking out through the slats of its crate at the back. And I didn't think 1 was likely very soon to see another live calf carried by express. "But I did see another one, similarly crated up. one dav last week in the Albany railroad station, standing there in its crate on a. platform truck, just come off a car, or waiting to go aboard of one; and somebody, the express folKs 1 supnose, had provided for it a bunch of bay. laid down on the truck, from which the calf, with its head out through the slats of the crate, was fe.ding. "So now T feel that I am beginning to get somewhat familiar with the sight of calves in crates shipped by express, and I eiare say they don't seem strange at all to expressmen. I imagine that, at any big office, if a man should walk in any day leading a camel, say, or a giraffe, to go to Kalamazoo or Kankakee Kan-kakee or my other place on the map the man on the desk would write a receipt re-ceipt for it quite as a matter of course, and then casually look up and say: Value?' and 'tut that down, and then just have somebody lead the beast to the car. . "For I fancy there could be no shipment ship-ment offered that would faze the expressman." |