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Show BOOKSTAND SENT Bf MAIL Contains Forty Volumsi of Ohskes- peire, But Whole Package Weighs Only Pound and a Half, A revolving bookstand, six Inches high, containing tho complete works of Shakespeare In forty volumes, the whole weighing only one and one-half one-half pounds, was tho unique packago wblch passed through tho registry division di-vision of tho postofllco yesterday Tho tiny volumes themsolvcs measured meas-ured two and one-half Inches, and woro about one-eighth of an Inch In thickness Although the print wns oxtremoly fine. It could ho easily rend Tho caso was ,iurmountod with a small mnrblo bust of tho Avon bard. and waB addressed to I.ongvlow, Tex , from Glasgow, Englnnd. Tho pnrcol was openod by linns Olntta, special customs examiner of mall Importations, who Is Inclined to bollovo tho oxprcssed vnluntlon of tho publisher, $11.50, Is too low, nnd a new appraisement will he mado. Tho mlnlaturo hooks wero bound nnd printed In ovory detail nftor the fashion of editions of ordinary slzo, with gilt print and leather binding. Tho articles attracted so much attention at-tention that Henry Smith, In chnrgo of tho registry division, exhibited It to tho corps of women, under Mrs. T. J, Atkins, who wcro selling hospital tags In tho postofuVp Ti. ''n-rp wns thereupon drrlnW " Tits' too cuto" no less than fifty limes St Louis Glbbe-Domocrnt. |