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Show FHOM THE CAPB TO CAIRO. A manufacturing Jeweler In Ixindon seems to tako tho Cape to Cairo railway rail-way as n pretty well established fact, tor ono of bis most popular metal groups of tho season Is tuado up of two I -- r " figures standing on it promo map of Africa and holding hands across tho united continent. Ono of these figures represents a llrltlih soldier and tho other a ttltlander In frontier coatume Nepileaa t.MI-K. The author of "In Northern India" tells of his experience at Ilhagwutipur. where ho wished to pint four letters "They wcro addressed to friends In England, who aro stump-rrllectors, and only contained n few lines to say 1 had sent them In order to secure Ne-paleso Ne-paleso stamps. Tba potlmajter refused to accept them. Torelgncra, ho said, wcro not permitted to port letters In Nepal, tho postal service being only for tho tine of the Ncpnloso. Wo sat on our elephant and rraioned, but he was firm, and tha police and other olllclals all supported him. After long dUcusslou, wo nt lait persuaded hi in tn let us post tho letters and leave It to tho government at Katmandu to decldo whether they might ho forwarded. for-warded. 'Ihcn ho went Into his otllcc, n mud hut, and sat on luw itooli, nearly near-ly tho whole population nnhhlng In n rtowd In front from the Urge open spaea. The postmaster redlrettetl euili letter In Nopal eso characters, and taking tak-ing a large sheet of paper, prepared n full report for hla government, tho pollco Inspector reading our deacrip-lion, deacrip-lion, and su forth, from tho 'permit.' Wa wcro particularly required to de-clnro de-clnro that the litters did nut contain any political matter. Then came the very serious business of etnmplng them. Ho had to get out a large wooden wood-en box for tho atsmps and aunt her for the date stamp. There are mamps of three values, equal to ono penn, twopence and sixpence. II,. assured ua wo could not pay liesond Npa, to ne desired to put a one-penny ntn'nip on each, nnd leavo the exeeai to tm collected col-lected on dallvery It they ever reached UarUna. ltortunatciy they arrived after some delay, and strsngely enough, mo ejteeas was charged and thue I had the pleasure nf anthlpntlng the penny poet, whlih la not ltk.-ty to be extended to Nepal for muny eari to come." |