Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-10-21
HUMOas OF THE POST OFFICE.

(From Holbrook's U. J. Mail for October.l
ADVERTISED LETTERs.-There are sent to
the Dead Letter Office, monthly. from the
New York post office, between seven and eight
thousand letters, which have been advertised
and uncalled for.
The usual number Of absent minded indi-
yiduals continues, as appears from the fact
age stamps, are deposited in the Office daily
This class of letters as also refused letters are
sent of to the Department, after remaining on
hand one week. There are about the same
number collected daily from among those put
In the lamp post boxes intended for the mails,
but wanting the extra penny stamp. This class
OF unfortunate missives are kept twenty .one
days, and then sent to the Department
Advertised, and city drop letters, are kept
three months, and then make q trip to the
capital
LETTER ADDRESSES
over the rail road, and over the river
haste In the search for one Edwin McKeeyef;
At right-angled Quakerdom. famed Philad'a
In mount vernon street he maketh his stay;
Two rs and one 0, quickly followed by 2,
MARKS precisely the spot where he hopes to see
you,
Mr. POstman. But ere you this mi,sive surren-
der,
Be sure that you finger the legalized tender,
Michael Porter Is the man,
Or boy, or loafer either,
ID
IL not hand to his brother
The one can read, the other can't
And yet they're smart as thunder!
In Ann street, Boston, a short jaunt
For Postman, los the number!
Miss Eliza Grover,
In care Of Mrs Blake,
In fleet ct. a fSw doors above
fulton st. on the west side of
the way in the white House
that stands back.
PAYING BOX RENT
Our city readers, especially the post office
oox-holders, who know something Of the strin-
gency Of the rules regarding the payment of
box rent. will doubtless appreciate the follow
Ing. From the fact that the lines were en-
closed to Us through the post Office, we infer
that they were intended for the Mail. We
are not quito sure, however, thatxhey are not
designed as an advertisement extraordinary
Ior certain beverage somewhat popular with
q large class; not including post Office clerks,
Oh course. We cannot decline their pubIica'
ton merely on the ground of such a Suspicion.
OWED (oDE) TO THE POST orrIcz.
Lives tcTttteh by a Boz holder"-Oct. 1St, 1861
fis the first Of October, and az often before
I've stepped up and settled with "Jack" the old
And right jolly time had Of IL too:
cor when appeared at the window SO small
The clsrk roared out at me- "Four dollars is all ~
a ipE
More particularly 40, when man is dead b1oke:
Having squared up his grocer, and paid his house
Find. himself in possession of ''nary red cent"
But 10 alk OF four dollars In this humorous style
1 really felt hurt, but couldn't but smile,
AS heard the gay chorus that greeted INV ears
our dollars! four dollars! or you'll be In ar
rearsi
Four dollars! four dollars! four dollarsr TO-DAY.
Four dollars! four dollars! your box rent to paw
to4r dollars! four dollars 20 couldn't but think,
As saw the rich coin, and heard It's clear chink
Really. how true II Is "Money il King -
Ano iouf dollars, just now, is a very "big thing
NOW WHAT'S TO be done? thought !; here's case-
iS Encie sam doesn't trust; SO can't run my face"
III play sweet" on the clerk, mused I to myself
AUD get bim to lay my bill on the shelf
30 steps TO the wIndow-puts on a sweet smile.
Oh, heavens! his face is drawn down full mile
come .nO out, my good friend, and Well take
"Four dollars! four dollars or your box will 90
up"
Zounds! thought I, drink he refuses,
NO" I'm pound 10 make out just what his ex-
" Good friend, !" said /, with my face all aQrin,
- DO understand you to say that you 20 back on
pm sound,
Just you wait few moments and will come
round -
began to bethInk me how to play out my game.
We met not ofacialy, but met as two friends
Me the inviter, with mary stipends;"
But my credit was good at Msndum's you see,
For twas there that lived on those lunches so
free
SO we bent our steps thither, and over that drink
made 1t all ri ght-at least so | think;
For my friend from the post office kindly con-
sented
TO hold on To my box-so Il cannot be rented
advise all my friends who are fixed In the same
way
To do as have done, and they'll come out 30 X
LATRR-ocToBER 2
w nat" changes come DER the spirit Of nv dreamIn
I've lost my boI!-yes, 90 II really seems
Fer when called to-day my friend to see.
He tells ms-"Round the corner-.I to ~,
Indignantly looked at him, and scanned his
visage o'er-
81 thought you'd hold on to my box-yOu told
me SO before"
"And so will, I" the clerk replied, "and won't
let 90 my hold,
"Till you come down four dollars more, and own
that you are sold.'
MORAL.
All ye that have P. .. box, with due bill stuck
therein,
Don't think that you can "soap" the clerk with
mendums "OLD TON GINn
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