Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-02
Queer Packages.

Odd freighti Well, / should say We
havel" said d. F. Masters. one of the old
est clerks in the main Office of the Adams
Express Company on Market street, Phila-
dephia, as he twirled himself aruuad on q
high stool and faced an inquiring reporter.
/ Mr.. Master talks with great volatility,
and as he is in the habit Of dropping many
! small words, his conversation was decided
lyS jerky. ''les, we ship little of every
thing, from diamonds to Chester-white pigs
and Limburg cheese. Remarkable thing
! about that cheese. Ever smell anyf Rich,
penetrating sort Of fragrance, amt 1t? Case
burst IN the freight-room last spring.
Made every one sick. Two Irishmen tried
to shovel it up. Smell nearly turned
'em inside out. Got Dl4tchman, regular
out and out eat a-sand sich-ip-a-m minute
sort Of fellow from 8ergmyer's saloon
across the say, but ne gave up in ten
minutes. Only finished 1t with the help
of box of deodorizer. Phewl They
should charge double rates to ship such
stuff" and the speaker elevated his nose
as though trace of the diabolical aroma
still fingered in his nostriis.
1.-Two babies have come through this
cfice-1ne from Chicago for New York,
and the other from Washington to this city.
The men on the line made great fuss
when the Chicago young one was shipped.
Telegraph operators all along the route
sent dispatches ahead, and crowds of peo-
pie went TO the depots to see the baby.
Cane all the way in tine cars Had a
hammock all rugged up. New Idea, you
know, and messengers thought it was Kind
of a joke, but they wouldn't like too much
of that kind. Baby's mother died in Chi
cago, father lived in New York; weighed
Al pounds believe; cost about 50 30 to
send ii through. Philadelphia baby came
along some tire after. Both made their
trip first-class, and seemed to enjoy things
general, Fed 'em regulation spoon VIC
tuals from hotels along the line. Often
have dead folks shipped. Don't know
why they send 'em by express, tho.
Tain likely any ones going to walk of
with corpse. Yes; man shipped three
shorthorn cattle clean through to Nebras-
ka about a month ago. Unless he got them
for nothing they must have ccst HIM pow
er of money when he got them Jus.
think of man expressing a whole deer
carcass two or three thousand miles.
About as sensible for butcher TO express
beef through fiom here to Camden.
Last fall lunatic sent a l, 200 pound block
of cedar from California clear to New
York. That't nethIng, however, for see
some one sent twenty barrels of mess pork
TO the Pottstown military camp by express
and the charges amounted to over $l00.
A cinnamon bear came through from Ne
vada by express last January for the Zoo.
logical Garden. Said he was tame when
they shipped him. Got loose near Omaha,
drove everyone out of the csr, ehewed up
half deer. ripped around among the
freight and had a circus all to himself un-
till he was lassoed and tied in the corner
of the car with log-chaln. Oh, yes, they
ship lots Of mirrors, but the men don't
like EN- Seven years bad luck to smash
a looking glass, you know. Snakes till
you can't rest, but they keep them in
boxes. Messengers don't mind EN-. Now,
you might think eggs are a nice freight,
but they amt. More expressmeu grow
bald on account of worrying over baskets
of eggs than anything know vf," and Mr.,
Masters turned from the reporter to receive
a package Of hymn-books consigned to a
missionary in the Black Hills.