St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-17
ADDITIONAL ST. PAUL NEWS.
YOUR CHRlSTMa BOX.

wha. rho youns and old of Both
Sexes Purchasing for Christ'
mas presents Sending Them
Away.
seYou come in next Thursday" said super
intendent George W. Hardacre, OF the mall
delivery sstheu YOU will see the business
we'll have Come in and I'll show you some
thing good. They've hardly commenced
sending out Christmas presents yet. LOOK
at those two barrels over there; tnat inc
wav il comes in now-noth1ng out carhlVal
picrures We have to unload parrel every
little while. About all kinds OF ChrlsIInas
nresents are sent through the mails. NoI
much beside Christmas cards or photogra
goes to foreign countries. You see, II they
shin ANYTHING which might be suspected or
being contrabaud goods, the customs oncers
in foreign ports open the mail ana send up d
hill for duties to the one to whom II is
addressed which he must pay before getting
the articles We are not allowed 10 take any
thing like this if we know 1t, but we
are also not allowed TO open sealed
packages which are sent out. frequently
people come with contraband GOODS, oools
and shoes for instance, and want to mail
them. Sometimes persons SEND on sealeo
packages which cost from 81 to Sl.5O Tor mali
ing If packages come here which we suspect
to contain contraband articles we send Tor
the party to whom they are addressed ana
have the packages taken upstairs into the
customs office in his presence. Now there
are three packages which have come from
New York. There, you see, is a bill for 20
cents which is for the duties upon the articies
That saves US the trouble of opening them.
When the addressee comes for them he has TO
pay that bill.
TO FOREIGN LANDS.
sNo." said Miss Easton, who receives all
the city outgoing MAIL ''the foreign business
would make only small fraction of the bust
ness 1t is mostly all in in time to catch the
Wednesday and Saturday steamers.
Before ner were dozen of sealed packages
for other states, which looked as If they
might embrace nearly everything in the mall
able line. MISS Easton said she sometimes
had to send persons to the express office. The
popular idea seems to be that one can mail
everything from sheet of paper 10 COW.
She could not tell which country across the
water got the most Christmas business from
St. Paul and hardly thought the entire amount
of foreign matter in that line would reach
three or tour thousand packages. While she
was talking lady came with four bundles OF
various sizes and boy emptied sack which
had apparently contained everything from
letter to an album, some packages pretty
well covered with stamps.
A big Third street store was crowde yeSter-
la afternoon with ladies' rich and poor, some
9uying silks and velyets and point and duch-
ssse lace, and others purchasing pretty silk
embroidered handkerchlefs. There was
counter covered with little balsam tr pillows,
which seemed to be all the rage for the ladies
to buy for their gentlemen friends. Over in
q showcase was a lot of hand-painted gauZe
fans, which gentleman was selecting from
for present to a lady. And a long list of
people were buying for the great festival
Benares brass ware, Hungarian fiance ware,
Bohemian glass and coral vases, urns and
asches; bronze statury. onyx pedestals and
tables, blood marble pedestalS, etagere tables
plush toilet sets, triplieate mirrors, silk muf-
1ers, handkerchiefs and smoking jackets,
ladies' silk hose, 'ostrich-feather fans, silver
shaving cups, smokers sets, umbrellas and
gold-headed canes, mousquetalre gloves,
Bishop sleeves and mittenS-half lace, half
silk, and feather fire screens, the ladies buying
for gentlemen and the gentlemen purchasing
for ladies. One lady had selected a cardinal
plush box. When she archly opened it, three
rows of red, yellow and white poker chips
were displayed.
SEALSKINS GO.
"Furs and seals go with the rest of the cat
alogue." said Third street furrier, land
sealskin caps are all the go for Christmas.
this year, both tor ladies and gentlemen"
"Christmas cards are getting to be some
thing of a chestnut 8" said gentleman in q