The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-11-02

.Odd freight? Well, / should say
we have, " said ID. +. Masters, one of
the oldest clerks in the main office
of the Adams Express Company as
he twirled himself around on high
stool ard faced an inquiring report
er. Mr. Masters talked with great
volubility, and, as he is in the hab
it of dropping many small words,
his versation was decidedly
ljerky.
'sYes, We ship a little of every
thing. from diamonds to Chester
white pigs, and Limberger cheese.
Remarkable thing about that cheese.
Ever smell any? Rich, penetrating
sort of fragrance, amt it? Case burst
in the freight-room last spring.
Made everybody sick. Two Irish
men tried to shovel it up. Smell
nearly turned 'em inside out. Got
a Dutchman, regular out and out
Observation-Disclosures sort of a
i fellow from Bergmyer's saloon
across the way, but he gave out in
ten minutes. Only finished it with
the help of a box of deoderizer
i Phew! They should charge doub-
lie rates to ship such stuff" and the
speaker elevated his nose as though
a trace of the diabolical aroma still
: fingered in his notrils.
1.-TWO babies have come through
: this office, one 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 people went to the depot
to see the baby. Came all the way
in the cars. Had hammock rig
ged up. New idea, you know, and
messengers thought it was kind of
a joke, but they would't like much
of the kind. Baby's mother died
!; in Chicago, father lived in New
York; weight forty-one pounds, 1t
cost $3.50 cents to send it through
Philadelphia baby came along
some time after. Both made their
trips first-class, and seemed to enjoy
things generally. Fed'm regulation
spoon vltuals from Hotels along the
: line.
'Often have dead folks shipped.
: Don't know why they send 'em by
! express, though. Tain't likely any
ones going to walk off with a
: corpse. Yes; a man shipped three
short-horned cattle clean through to
t Nebraska about a month ago. I'm
less he got them for nothing they
must have cost him power Of
money when he got them. Just
5 think of a man expressing whole
deer carcass 1000 or 5000 mile
t About as sensible for butcher to
: express beef through from here tc
i Camden. Last fall lunatic sent a
: 1000 pound block of cedar from
2 California clear to New York. That's
nothing, however, forssI see some one
e sent twenty barrels Of mess pork tc
5 the Pottstown military camp by ex-
1 press and the charges amounted tc
over s10o A cinnamon bear came
$ through from Nevada bv express
$ last January for the Geological Gar.
: den. Said he was tame when they
e shipped him. Got loose near 0ma.
4 ha, drove every one out of the car
S chewed up half a deer ripped round
among the freight and had 4 circus
e all to himself until he was lassoed
: and tied in the corner OF the cal
with a log chain.
, "Oh, yes; they ship lots of mir
rors, but the men don't like 'em
r Seven years bad luck TO smash q
looking glass, you know. Snakes
till you can't rest, but they keep
: them in boxes. Messengers don't
mind them. Now, you might think
r eggs are nice freight, but they
a amt. More e,.pressmen grow bald
: on account of worrying over bas-
: kets of eggs than anything / know
t Of" and Mr. Masters turned from
{ the reporter TO receive a package oi
! hymn-books consigned to mis-.
/ sionary in the Black Hills.