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Show A Byotom Tlmt Ilao Orown with Amuziun Rapidity. What Tnt nn Vnknown Convenience Ten Yenra Ago 14 Nutr nn Almoit In- dlipenahl Adjunct to Daltr l.iru. Tho net authorizing: the parcel post vas passed In 188J. Hut It mny well be Imagined that tlmo was nccesHary to mount nn otitircly now postal f-ervlco wltliout disorganizing tho onllnary mailn, nnd It was not until August 1, 1833, that tho poat was actually placed ut tbo disposal of tho public, says the London Times. Slay 1, 1830, 11 new scnlo of weights and clinrges wan Iviucd. Tho scale, which Htill obtains, ascended by singlo instead of double pounds, ond thus represented n charge of 3d for the Ilrst pound and ljtfd for ench succeeding suc-ceeding pound. t tho sanio than the maximum weight was raised to eleven pounds, 11 parcel of that weight being carried for 18d. Compensation was promised for the In . or damage of any parcel in the pi 1 1" Jo t!M5 sum of , wbilo further sum-, of 5 nnd 1U might bo secured liy tlio 1 i aient of 1 penny and 2d rCsjicctlvcl-. Tho original bcilo of woighU and charges waa for u paroal not exceed-inr; exceed-inr; ono pound, Sd; up to thrco pounds, Gd; up to flvo pounds, Od, nud up to beven pottuds, Is. At Beven pounds tho post stopped. Tho maximum dimensions dimen-sions nllotvod wera threo nnd one-half feet In length und six feot Incngth and fc'lrth combined, and theso dimensions dimen-sions hnvo boon found throughout to be Riifllelcnt to moot the public demand. Thu elfcct of these changes at onco became visible. From June, 186i), on-wants, on-wants, tho number of parcels Increased by more than twenty per ecu t. over tho number for tho corresponding months of the previous year, nnd the total number of parcels carried In tho year 1890 rose to ai, 000,000. In tho meantime, mean-time, parcel poats had bocn established witli many colonies nnd foreign states. Tho admirably managed post olllco of India and tho post oQleo of Egypt (organized (or-ganized by tho country) wcro tho Ilrst to respond to tho invitation of tho postmaster froncral, nnd tho Interchange Inter-change of parcels with India, Hurmali, Aden nnd Egypt commenced July 1, 1383. At the end of another six months ficrmany and llolgluin, forerunners of thin country In parcel post enterprise, had entered In similar relations, and from th" commencement of 1860 tho work of connecting tills country with the rot of tlio world for tho purpose of Interchanging parcels by post proceeded pro-ceeded apaco. Tlie next change of Importance took place Jnno'l, 1891, when tho system of reglstratlun was for tho first time extended ex-tended to Inland parcels, together with compensation on u liberal scale. Tor tho ordinary registration, n fco of 2d, compensation up to 5 was promised, while for every additional Id another . coul t bo secured up to n maximum of i'.'S. At tho same tipie tho compensation compen-sation pajtaule on tin unregistered par-id par-id was raised from 1 to is. Tiually, December 1 lust, a scnlo of paymont rising to 30 (which had previously been .ipjftL-d to tbo post to India and the West Indies) was adopted; nnd ith now possible to obtain componuiilou up t that amount by payment of tho ivjrist ration fea of Sd nnd additional fco of '.M, or-lld In nil. It h not surprising sur-prising thai under thu influonco of tli i- improvements tlio number of parch cut per head of tho population popula-tion lia- nnro than doubled since thu post i'.ui Instituted. So completely has tho parcel post now hivoiuu np adjunct of dally llfo t'mt it is nlmost dllllcult to realize that ten yenr ago unyono wishing to send a puruel, ovon between two centers cen-ters of p ipulatlon, had no certainty when it would bo dispatched, when It would bo delivered, mpl liqy much ho would huva topay;wlc rural districts were, for ench purposes, practically out of reach, ... j'lmr William HuaoiNS, tho KnglUh astronomer nnd spectroscopic, thinks that u star Is nvl, whlto or blue, uccord-mg uccord-mg to iu nffo, and that tho whlto stars aro the youngest. That sunflowers turn with tho sun It about antrum? that uny other flowers similarly turn. In tho growth of plants the flmvcr stums take n spiral motion. In niotiy eases tho uncoiling Is finished by the thno the flowers opeu; but In many cases t continues for u short time ''far. rLfc:t, , T .. |
