The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-10
Post once Points.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. l.
About $3.50 per month is paid out
in money orders at this Office.
II all the losses are promptly reported
il will be the means Of correcting irregu-
larities, and the efficiency of the postal
service will be enhanced in most i'm
pOrtant degree.
The stock of proper names are SO
limited that they arc duplicated in al
most every towR, much To the annoyance
of travelling men who frequently find
their letters opened by resident parties
! of similar names, and with initials the
same or so nearly the same that post
masters are unable TO prevent such oc-
currences. If they would have their
mail Endorsed transient by the writer, it
would Obviate the difficulty and remove
much cause of complaint of official
negligence.
The woman who looks under the beds
and in the closets, and then when she
| goes to bed thinks she has forgotten to
lock the back kitchen door and requires
her better CALF to get up and brake his
shins over two or three chairs, was in
yesterday. We knew her by the way she
dove around in her different pockets and
bundles for her pocket-book when she
went to pay for her stamps. She final
lY thrust her hand into her bosom and
brought it forth, whereupon she smiled
and sighed. She stepped over to the desk
to affix her stamps, but was back in
moment and in an excited voice
yelled; where's that man that
was standing here's"
"Gone? Gone? Run after himl Head
my pocket book and all there is in it
can't you go?"
How much did it have in it ?" asked
the clerk, but she was too much excited
to answer.
whats that in your hand ?'' he again
asked.
"Oh lord, that's itr' She didn't even
wait to ask when "those letters would go
out she dropped in the box" but gather
ed up her bundles and vanished.
| dUhSDAh, OcpI -
There are some people who never make
mistakes. We are not of that number.
We don't know what this country is
coming To when the postmaster at Par
sons gets a repremand for using a
leather mail sack to catch rain water in
1t is the duty of postmasters to exa-
mine all unsettled packages, notwith-
standing the fact that they may be pre-
paid at letter rates; but under no cir
stances are they TO break the seal of any
package not addressed to themselves.
1t is really amusing to see how people
mail letters on the cars. One man comes
up, looks all around the train, peeps into
the doors. holds his letter up and FINALLY
gives it to the conductor, with the re-
quest to mail it on the train. Another
man comes up and says; II want to mail
a letter; can / do it right here ~
Then comes young man with
two letters in his hand and climbs right
into the car and says, Il want TO mail
some letters; this here one goes to New
York and this here one goes to Denver
wherc'll put 'emg" But the careful
baggage smasher'' who has collected q
handful from his friends just throws them
, at the door AS the car goes by and some
! goes in and some fall on the platform
and the remainder fall in the spittle or
the car floor. The careful man knocks
on the door, when the agent is very
: busy, and he drops his work only tc
I hear, aft drop this letter in this hole
will it go?''
4 SATURDAY, Sept. 4.
+ Put that in the paper" has become ;
! slang expression, therefore it is not "iI
Y good taste" to use it.
I A postmistress living not a great dis
T lance from here, has sent a request tina
we send her a blank Proposal. Wee
like to awful well, but we can't Weir
A engaged.
d A letter addressed to Mrs. G. Egberl
Ionia, Michigan, without stamp. Ais
n one to Ed r. Davis, Delphas, Ohio. /
f. paper with one cent stamp on it address
v ed to E. w. Wheeler, will go better whel
y two more one cent stamps are added
It Also one for F. Hodgendobler, Osborne
Ohio, in the same fix. Papers must b
prepared at the rate of one cent for ever
two ounces or fraction thereof in Orde
To be "sure 10 CO."
For the benefit of some of our patron
who have friends in the old country, W
publish Order 81, issued by the depart
ment, Aug. 20, 1880.
1t is hereby ordered, That on and afte
&c the list of October, 1880, the postag
Se charge on newspapers addressed To couI
is tries or colonies of the Universal Post,
Union shall be the same as on printe
matter generally for the same destin
ton, under the provisions of the CONVEX
ton of Paris, viz: l cent for each welgl
m of two ounces or fraction of two ounces
IN ats jes been two yars,' - said old AuI
Id Hester Cites, as she presented herself
n the window and enquired for mail, "sent
T. l, wild six children jined the exodustc
a, and come to dis country, now dey a
lis seventeen oh US quartered at our cab
ct up on Lincoln abernue in StringtOw
ne and il de good Lawd am willin and
Ali spring chickens and watermillions no
Ii. out, Use guine to hab de rest oh de TIVE
cd ty-eight he'a in time to push de boo
for CARTEL and Lapgston. A lette
Thank you, honeY-good day, sahi'
zee AMERIcUs NoTEs.