Show Peculiar Petitions There are fiftythree thousand post offices in the United States and it is estimated esti-mated that there is an average of three applicants for every office Some of the petitions sent to the department by wouldbe postmasters are curiosities One woman in Central Illinois asks that she be appointed in place of her husband the incumbent who is a Republican while she is a Democrat Her husband ioins in the request and vouches for her Democracy Democ-racy A postmaster in southern Indiana writes to know if he cannot resign and have his wife who is a Democrat appointed ap-pointed as he is a Republican who contributed con-tributed to the campaign fund and cannot can-not consistently ask to be retained Another An-other Indianan writes that he has purchased pur-chased a drug store in his town and paid more for it than it is worth in the expectation ex-pectation of being made postmaster A father and son are applicants for the same postoffice and their petitions are embellished embel-lished not only with the names of their indorsers but contain a dissertation on the unfitness of each other for the office |