Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-10
-------------------- Elephants All Coyvaras

I once had grand scrimmage with a ti- gress. She had mauled my own tusker bad Iy had crunched the mahout's foot into ielly while she had caused me to be thrown of, and after mauling two elephants, not badly, she had forced us to retreat for the time, as it got dark, and not an animal would go near her we had no howdahs Next morning we found her dead and took her into camp. AS experiment., had all the tuskers brought to the front. My own beast, which was badly mauled about the head and jow1, and had it's back fearfully cut by the charah ropes, went up to her at once when told, and ssstruck the carcass with it's trunk. and stood by unconcernedly; but none of the other five tuskers would go near her. They were then jamned together and driven forward. They advanced with heads lowered until their tusks plowcd up the ground, uttering most pitiful cries. When within yard of the dead tigress, they ierked up their heads, scattering earth upon the body, notwithstanding the punishment they received from their mahouts, broke away and ran for their lives. It was the most absurd sight ever saw. Then next day, although the place where were encamped was as bare of vegetation and level as 8 billiard table, not an elephant would advance alone to drink water or to be bathed. The bheel was not 100 yards off so the mahouts, holding on to tip of the of elephant, ! led them in body down toward the water. Suddenly young tusker, Jerry, which had been born in captivity and was of most ! uncertain temper, trumpeted and bolted, followed by every animal in camp and it gave us great deal of trouble to recapture them, one tusker, who had wandered upward of 50 miles, not being recovered for week. There was not the slightest cause for this stampede. It interfered with sport considerably but in a few days the elephants appeared to have got over their panic, and allowed us to kill gaur bufaloes, and other game off them without showing any undue 1 fear. have always found elephants born in I captivity most uncertain in their tempers 1 They lose all fear of man, while, from not I being accustomed to wild beasts, they dread l them, and are thus useless for sport
 The Wonderful Work of the Railway l Postal Clerks.
 l A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquil'. | CT, who rode iron, that city to Chicago in a
 postal car. writes follows:
 | A postal car is so arranged that everything | is right at hand. To be sure, this is conven- | tent but it makes things very much crowd | ed. There are boxes for letters and boxes l for papers, and there are racks for pouches
 and racks for bags Then there is a store ! room in front Some of the boxes are for | special cities and some for railroads So
 it is with the pouches and bags. The pouches l for the letters hung by themselves on | hooks with the tops open. Ditto the sacks
 for the papers. AS soon as the wagon load
 of mail arrives at the car from the postotiice
 it is dumped out of the pouches, and the
 clerks immediately begin to "throw' it. At
 the po7toffice the people arrange the letters
 by States. This is all the start the clerks or
 the car get. Each box in the car represents
 either a city or railroad, and the letters
 must ell be placed in the proper boxes tC
 reach the cities for which they are destined
 or the railroad connection that will give tho
 quickest delivery.
 In order to correctly ''throw'' State tho
 man so doing must know the location o1
 city, town, village hamlet, railroad station
 and crossing in every county of that State
 He must be able to detect the second he see 1 it letter that is misd'rected. Misdirectel
 letters are called ''nxes'' Accompanyin,
 each package of letters sent from the post
 office is slip of paper with the date stampe,
 upon and the name of the letters are printed
 thereon. There is also a number stamped ol
 the slip, and that number represents tn ! clerk at the postoffice who put up the pack age. In case nix is found in package o
 letters, it is returned by the clerk of the car
 who stamps the date the nix slip, write
 thereon the "misdirection," and signs hi
 name to it. Each nix is charged against tn clerk at the postoftice who permits it to go t. , the car, and at the end of the month there i a grand hauling over the coals If too man
 mixes are set opposite mans name in given time he is relieved of the responsibil ities of his position. Last night 30 nike ' were detected on one car, and one of then
 was an official letter written from the Cincin 7 nati postoffice to postmaster in town tha [ doesn't exist.
 2 It may be reasonable to suppose that B man of ordinary intelligence could learn al , of the little towns and so forth in one O two States, but when it comes to 12 States 7 | would seem to be an impossibility, but MT l MeGinnis, the man with the best memory Ii