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Show Post Offlco Statistics. Sentiment may (hid special Interest In tlio current report of tlio post-master post-master general, for wo aro celobrat-lng celobrat-lng tho two hundredth nnnlversaary of tlio birth of Fianklln, who was deputy postmaster general of tlio British colonies In Amoilca. At tho time of Franklin's death, 1790, thero were 75 post offices In this country To-day there aio 08,000 Then tho rocelptB were les3 than J10.000. I.aot year they weie $150,000,000. Tho number of peoplo employed by tho post office department Is nearly 300,000 equal to the working population pop-ulation of n great cltj and tho number num-ber of employes and of all agents and means for distributing mail mounts faster in proportion than tlio receipts Tlio postmaster genet al touches on many suggested Improvements, such as tho reduction of certain rates of postage, tlio parcels post and postal savings depositories, but ho recommends recom-mends that attention bo paid not so much to posslblo additions to tho sorv-Ico sorv-Ico as to tho Improvement of tlio kinds of Bervlco already established. Tlio principal chango thnt ho recommends Is tho merging of third-class matter unsealed printed matter and of fourth-class unsealed merchandise Into ono class nt one cent for two wibwjs. Youth's Companion. |