The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-06
PeTtinsnt Postal Points.

/ SACOD uag lS COLukn
Only write your girl one page and
save up for peanuts
The post office will be open ON show
day ''as usual" Be sure to come in and
see us, and let your families come in
during the day.
We cordially invite all that may be
down from Americas, Council Grove
and Usage City, to come in and inquire
for mail. We like TO see you. All OF
you come ~
"PIease forward all the mail in your
Office to Manhattan at once" Is what a
travelling man lately commanded as to
do. We'd like to accommodate him,
but are afraid Moses Robson and some
of the other boys would object.
A reasonable time must be allowed TO
mail messenger between postoffice
and railway station, in which TO con-
vey the mail to the trains. Patrons
should deposit their mail in the Office at
least twenty minutes before train time.
We would like to know why it is that
young man can sit down, heaye sigh
or two, that would do justice after par
taking of a picnic dinner, then dash off
dozen pages to some "angel without
WINGS" of about seventeen year old
plumage, but when he begins to write to
his mother, he can scratch himself bald
headed and then the letter will be SO
thin you can see through it.
1t would afford us the most intense de-
light Imaginable if the young man who
owns box 1 ,2Os could get letter there
Uneven an old circular we think would
encourage him.
There is silver lining around the
darkest cloudP' 1t has Just daWned up
on our mind that in our estimation it
would be good deal more pleasant too
go fishing, providing you didn't go to
near the creek. or to "gather daises on
the hill side" or even TO be "tickled un-
der the chin" than to be in Second As
sistant Post Master General Brady's
boots just at the present time.
If you want your publications entered
as second class matter" bring in your
sample copy" and written request to
that effect
Envelopes first came into general use
in England shortly after the establish
ment of the Peny Post in 1910, and not
long afterward in this country.
Letters held for postage: Mrs. A.-C.
Fletcher, Usage City, Kansas; r. o. Har-
ris. Lawrence, Kansas; Thomas Brady,
Ulbeden, Canada Held for direction: |
Rich Hill, Mo. 81
They were hunting "old stamps" back |
Of the post Office yesterday, three of the |
prominent sons of "de brederen," when |
they gathered around an old
barrel used to hold waste paper and |
went into executive session.
"Fellers we's kinder hard up, we am
YES poor, sab; we's got to skirmish |
sroun' fo' some OBJ dat foddah dat will |
AXE Us fro de circus. De time am |
lraWin' nigh AMI feels mighty lonesome
doesn
"Dis poetry ought to fetch de lucre."
"WhatIs dat? Bring it here" came
AOAA WAsa-AHs aAu "ApAAS HIS y cS Win aA
I'D cotton cloth he had fished out of the
Hey he came tumbling forward with the
blowing poetry { y in hand:
1He wore her on his left elbow,
he walked her down--they sat.
They came to see the great big show.
She wore her nice pokeshat." 4
stShe had dark hair. black eyes, Oh my! 4
Her dress was emerald green,
She caused them all to sigh. ,. i
And hirted with all she SEEM
'sHer Hair stwas did" in Dutch braid,
Her gloves twas thought she'd lent, Il
In fact her general get up'' twas said,
Was quite most awfaiiy magniaccht.''
The author evidently died while bel
vas ransacking his brain for the fourth
'erse. The boys were paid 10 cents for
ach verse with promise of IS cents for
ny more Of the poem they could find
nd went auav nanny 1