The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-04

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There Is no place In town whore 3 hal
hour can be 10 probably spent 4, thl
study Of Ch6FGcter g. attic Post oflce
We have often HAEinsids the Window AM
listened to the conversations going on be
tween the clGlpgand thoOo who cGll iol
letlerS az up INFORMATION About thl
mSfls, &c. For The benefit Of those who
aTe IN the habit Of annoying the clerk
We M give 4 few bris Conversations y
Enter neatly dressed lady who calls oul
through the window, "Now I'm surt
hergs a letter to-dSyI" Clerk nyS, SNo
Mss." aNoW how do you know Wnen
Won didn't lookl" "Well Mis-. nave
looked those letfNIo over so often to-day
that 7 knos mere Is none for you" "BuI
Won GL1f know and ! do tor ! have been
Goking lor Q Ietter.tor weeks and tqsek'
and wREKS and you say lie notyet come
and / know itS been written and mailed
and d in your box there now Il you'd only
look and Il You don't IooksTl call Rt once
on the Post Master and have you TUNED
of that / win here." All this was said
without . pause, and % rapidly that one
could hardly understand It. Before the
last word was ont, contrary 10 the threat
to Gee the Post Master, Miss Spit Fire was
off down the ateps. But she was back the
next Day, and for many succeeding day.
and always gets of about the same speech
but never gets . letter. u
Here comes q sour, surly looking gen.
tleman, who looks - though hed fallen
into q solution Of alum in his younger
days, and bis CountenanCe had never quite
recovered from the effects Of 1t. He wants
o letter, but It hASen't come yet. Then be
wants 10 know when the Pittsburgh mail
gets in. The clerk tells him "at 11:65."
II know better" replies alum coun'
tenancs, "For Igot letter from there q
half hour before that the other day.
every well, sir" replies the clerk "1tyou
know there Is no need Of telling you
but don't know, and I'd like to know
what you're there for II II, amt 10 give 10
formation. want TO know when thu
Pittsburgh mail gets in" ~ told you
lI:55." "And" quoth the, alum counter
Anced gentleman, ~ kHOU BETTER" And
then the clerk walks of to wait upon &
gentleman easier pleased, and leaves him
10 growl through the window, or conway
as he pleases.
Next comes lady who wants stamp
She purchases 1t, gets her change, ant
then asks the clerk ii he'll be 80 very kline
40 to stick It on; but in the act Of handing
1t to the clerk Il falls on the stones out
side the window, and the lady can't picl
1t up with hetBloyeg on, and, She want
10 know If the clerk will be go ueTy klnC
as to come around and pick 1t up for her
or course be goes. ,--- =
Next comes simpering miss Of aboh
sixteen, who sides upIto the window ant
then sidles of again, and then she giggle
and sldleg up again. and finally, with
giggle, wants to know "if there Is lette
from Ferdinand Jones TO Nancy Nipper?'
The clerk answers that there Is none from
any one for Nancy Nipper; and ther
Nancy giggles, and wants to know wher
1t will come.
Next comes precise man Of business
who "wIshes to know II letter left Sal
Francisco on Monday morning at Is min
utes past Z, when 1t would arrive Ii
Wheeliug?" The clerk ascertains as nea
as he can and says Thursday noon.
Aud then the business man commences t
cuss the Department in general and thO
Wheeling Office in particular, as his lette
lett San Francisco at that time and ar
rived in Wheeling Friday morning.
Next comes q woman who asks II Their
Is "a letter for Eliza Jane Robinson p
The clerk says "No, madam" and thel
comes and tells US conAdenually that Eliz
Jane has been coming every day, som
days twice, for five years, and never got
letter yet. "And," adds the clerk, ut on
were 10 come I'd be afraid TO give ii L
her, for she knows there Is no person Il
the,Rorld who would write to her and 81
she'd think l was playing a joke on her
and wopld likely spittn mytace." t}U
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