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Show . oo I Mall From Europe. H New York, April 15. Au unusually I large amount of mall from Europe ar- H rived hero today on the White Star H liner Ccdric from Liverpool, which I brought no passengers. The postal 1 consignment consisted of 4,869 bags I of first claBB and 517 packages of par- I eel post mall. I It Is said that after the great Turk- i ish defeat at Sarlkamysh, a Russian i officer met a party of 500 captured ' Turks being brought In by fifteen j : smiling Cossacks. There was some-( thing obviously the matter with thet prisoners; their hands were all my-l steriously occupied The officer hailed the Cossack in ; charge and asked "Have you got a dancing class j there, or what?" The Cossack grinned more broadly and replied: j "Well, you see, Excellency, there's more than 500 of them, and onlyJif-Leen onlyJif-Leen .of us, so there was a- chance they might bo up to somethlngiP?w e weren't oareful. So before we started we sent round and cut off all their hooks, belts and tiouser buttons Now they'o got their hands full and It's no use of their trying to bolt." |