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Show Hungry Mules Eat Mall. During recent maneuvers of ships oi tho British navy somo of them collet' at Lagos, Portugal, for their mall. Soon It was dlscovorod that something lint gono wrong with It. Ono young sub lloutonaat received his sweetheart'? lottor In n condition of pulp, with thr two top linos of each page still Intact while another officer, who know that his heart's dollght wculd not have failed him In tho matter of letter writ lng, received nothing at all. Tho explanation, ex-planation, though hardly solacing, wr.s slmplo enough. It scorns that tho last twenty miles of tho Lagos mall Jour-' noy Is performed by mulo dlllgonco ' and a hungry mulo had endoavoreiT to satisfy tho cravings of an ompty Btom-ach Btom-ach with the out pourings of loving hearts. |