The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
A Postofiice Puzzle.

A PostOfiice Puzzle.
By the last mail from India curious
letter arrived at the General Postofice.
It was not stamped, the paper of which
the envelope was composed was Pc
culiar, and the address was for the time
being utterly uninteligible. Anyhow,
the letter had been sent to London.
The General Postoffice authorities at
once dispatched a trustworthy messen-
ger to the most erudite scholars in this
CITY to ask them to decipher the strange,
blotted, crooked, and indistinct hand
writing on the envelope. An eminent
linguist of the British Museum was ap-
piled to. He could not interpret the
address, but pronounced the characters
forming it not to be arrow-headed ones,
not resembling the letters comprising
the ancient Assyriac inscriptions with
which he had hitherto met. Another
well-known authority of the British
Museum was consulted, but he could
not see in the writing on the envelope
any resembling to Chinese. The au-
thorities at the India Office were next
asked for their opinion. The omniscient
librarian was unfortunately absent just
at the time when the postal messenger
called, but a Professor, his able assist
| ant, pronounced it not to be Malagasy
or even Pail. The letter next went to
Richmond, where q well-known Cana
rese scholar pronounced the address not
| to be Canarese. So the letter
passed from pundit to pundit without
Interpretation. At length it happened
that a large gentleman of the India
| Office recommended the bearer of the
mysterious communication to take it to
two other learned gentlemen residing
| in Bayswater. These laid their heads
| 10 &lok
scription on the envelope of the re-
| doubtable letter was in the Telugu
| character. It was written very badly,
| however, and when translated read as
| follows: 'sNottu peydu, Jaroor /
pray postofice writer in London to
take this letter and gave it into the
| hand of the Rance" Nottu peydu"
means "not paid" There was no
stamp on the letter, SO perhaps the Tel
| ugu person who sent it considered this
communication to " the Ranee." as he
styles her Majesty the Queen, sufficient
| ly important in itself to pass free to the
| hands of the Empress of India"
| "Jaroor" is the Hindustani equivalent
| for post haste" The "writer" of
| the London Postoffice, of course, means.
| in common parlance, the '' clerk" The
author of the letter evidently supposed
that we in London possess only one
postofice and only one clerk to that
| Office. Of course, the contents of the
letter are not known to US. Probably
some petty lawsuit has gone wrong with
the sender, and her Majesty the Queen
| is informed that the local magistrates
took bribes.-Pau Mall Gazette.
The Monster Farm and Farm-King of
| Illinois.
Mr.. Il. Sullivant, the great farmer of
| Illinois, and of the West, too, for that
matter, was in Ell Paso, Saturday. He
called on seery & Rouse. who have
been supplying him with agricultural
machinery for some years, and ordered
of them half a dozen Buckeye mowers.
| Sullivant is one of those cheerful souls
who never do anything by halves. A
correspondent says of his farm: ST
was at Sulivant's farm to-day. It is
about eighty miles square and contains
about "A, 900 acres. Met MIR. Sullivant
in his Office, and found him most
pleasant and agreeable man, ready to
entertain any one who calls. l am in
debted to !, r. w. B. Dix, chief clerk,
for the following condensed report of
the workings of the farm: Num-
Der of hands employed, about 600;
mules and horses, 1000 cattle (oxen),
SO; number of acres in corn, 10000
acres IN small grain, 5000; acres in
tame grass, 5000; miles of hedge,
800; head of hogs, 1000; head of cat
tie, 600. Every thing is run in regular
military style. He can tell just what it
costs to raise bushel of grain ON any
section of his farm, also the cost each
month to feed the hands. The hands
are all hired by the month and boarded.
There is a resident doctor-Dr. Blair
who attends to the sick. According to
actual figures it is demonstrated that
IL cents per bushel in ordinary
seasons will put corn in the crib, and
26 cents per day will board hands.
The bill of fare is better than
that found in most boarding houses.
The following is the bill of fare
for June, 1874: Smoked shoulder,
mess beef, -four, bread, rice, beans,
peas, tea, coffee, sugar, dried apples,
vinegar, molasses, lard, spices, eggs,
fresh vegetables, ETC., cost per capita,
269 cents. Found Mr.. Fay, the CASH
|. ier ; Mr.. Miner, the General Manager,
and others, very pleasant gentlemen.
A general stock of goods are kept, from
which the men are supplied at net cost.
An elevator of 35, 900 bushels capacity
is about ready to receive grain. 1t is
said to be by competent judges the
best and most complete elevator IN the
State, outside of Chicago. There is
now in crib $50, 900 bushels of corn
waiting the completion of the elevator
to be shelled and shipped. Crops look
|all apprehensions of injury from
drought. "-H Peso (Ill.) Journal.
A Cat Shoots Man. =
The Salem IN. Y Press says: "There