Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-05-06
Postal Cards.

lUt Hlos '
limo fixed for issuing the first five
.iIIion installment Of the new
.,.,.l M cards. The dispatches in
t,,m Us that the great cities of
III. East are gobbling them up
With remarkable rapidity. New
yo,k takes a million; and even
c.,t Lake has ordered five thou
..Od inst as an experiment. We
r,nt charcoal Flat and McGeary
,smembered in this connection.
Each of these great mining cen
t.r should be provided with a
few millions. Will not Postmaster
Hammer attend to this matter at
ouce? But, seriously, we have no
Doubt the new psstal cards are to
eome into general use. They have
stamps impressed upon them of
one cent each, which is supposed
10 be sufficient to insure their
transmission by mail to any de-
sired point. They partake of the
nature of an "open letter and
are subject to inspection by all
postoffice employees who may feel
interested in perusing them. That
they are calculated to promote the
schemes OF swindlers and conf
dence men, may be inferreds from
the following account of the work.
ing of the system in France as re-
lated by the New York Tribune of
arecent date:
An individual sent daily several
postal cards addressed to himself,
on one of which his inquisitive
janitor read
LET me know when you will
call for that 1900 francs. Your
carelessness is ineXplicable. Yours,
etc."
Another indicated to the jani-
tor that his acquaintance was in
the full tide of good luck:
Answer yes or no. l am aware
the girls thousands do not con-
Germ you, but you owe some re-
spect to her family. Say direct
lyif you will or will not marry
her. Immediate.
Better still, this one:
Mr. j, notary, requests you
to call at his office as soon as pos
sible, to acquire possess ion of the
property of the late Mr.. Bigour-
din"
Astonished at the contents Of
this correspondence, the indis-
Greet porter lent $4,000 francs (Sl0,.
UU) to the ingenious borrower,
who, OF course, Immediately dis
appeared. The police were duly
Informed of the matter, and when
the officer asked the janitor why
lie lent this man his money so
ioollshly, he answered naiVely:
Because l thought he didn't
need it,"
The following description of the
new card will be read with in
terest:
The card adopted is 51a inches
IN length and 3 inches in width,
anu Is made of good, stiff paper,
water marked with the initials
=. 5. r. q. D. in monogram. The
tace OF the card is engraved, sur.
rounded by border. in scroll
Mork' ole-eighth of an inch in
width. The one cent stamp,
printed ON the upper right nand
.orher Is fro n profile bust of
!he Goddess Of Liberty, looking
70 the left, and surrounded by a
nIhe work border, with the words
=; ;. Postage" inscribed above,
anu the w'rds zone Cent" below.
va the upper left hand corner ar"
we words United States Postal
nard' with directions to-" write
' .ne address only on this side: the
mns aessase on the other Under
h,eath, he and occ, pying the lower
na'l or the card. are ruled lines
WI whlch to write the address, the
op line being pretiXed with the
in, %oru TO" The back of the card,
;;n'ehded for the communication.
20 entirely plain, being devoid
~den ,,e, or ruled lines. The cards
iii WI lie sold for one cent each,
,aeither more nor less, whether in
i;aaee ;ae gu intities or small. The OBJ
;eel te. OF the postal card is to facili-
"s raee letter correspondence and
ir,Io'iue for the transmission
the mails at a reduced
,sae n; OF postage, of short cOmmu.
ih,rations, iac either printed or writ.
n ,.a IN pencil or ink. In their
as mail matter they
the the 70 be regarded by postmasters
sae sa same as sealed letters, and not
no =. printed matter, except in no
tases ta VIII u acclaimed cards be sent
" the Dead Letter Office.