Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-05
QUEER STUDIES IN HUMAN NATURE
 AT THE PCSToFFlcE.
Those Who Know What They Want and Those Who Don't-Inquiries Which Be- long Properly to the Dcpot-Bother Over the Special Delivery Stamp.

Those Who Don't-Inquiries Which Be-
 long Properly to the Dcpot-Bother Over
 the Special Delivery Stamp.
 There is a broad and fertile field in the postoffice for those who are given to making character studies. A man has only to stand near one of the stamp windows for q few minutes to see more odd specimens of man perhaps than are to be found in any other one place Tn the city, and that means in the country. One has only to watch the hurrying, nervous, pushing line of people rushing in one peculiar world this is. there is the dapper young lawyers clerk. He knows what he wants and how to get it with the least trouble. He falls into line, impa- tiently tapping his foot until his turn comes. Then he puts down dollar, says shortly Fifty twos," snatches up his stamps and darts through the crowd. Behind him, perhaps, is an old, bent, gray haired man, dressed ill jumper l and a pair of overalls. He asks for one stamp, and when this is laid down before him on the thick pane of glass, he goes l down into his pocket and pulls forth a greasy, dilapidated looking leather wal let. He hunts around in this for couple of pennies, and finally, when he has | found them, takes his stamp and goes oil | to the side carefully to paste it on the | letter. -r FOOD FOR THE WOMAN HATER. v. The office boy comes in like a flash, buys great roll of the little green, hid eous things, tears it rapidly into strips and, skillfully running his tongue along the under side of them, slaps them on to pile of letters, tearing each one from the strip with a quick, ripping sound Some girl hovers on the outskirts oi ing for a clear field, goes up to the win, dow. "When does the next train leave for FarmingtonT' she asks.
 | Don't know; this is a stamp window
 She bushes and begins to stammer "Couldn't you find out for me?'
 Time table over on the wall" "grufHy and she goes over to look at the sched ule, which no living man could figure out. Meanwhile the short man, ill a sill hat, with large glasses across his nose has been snorting and fussing abou lows her over to the wall, and, casting { whitening look at her, grunts out "HumS He slams the door in dis gusted manner behind him, still mutter ing about "women."
 In ten minutes the girl comes back tt the window and says timidly: ''1 can find Pennington"
 "Well, that ain't my fault, is it?" say the man sharply, peering over the glas at her. She fees in dismay.
 And so they come and go, men, womel and children, not more than half of then knowing how to buy stamps, and on I like and energetic people. The reporte asked the stamp clerk to tell him som of the more amusing experiences he wen through in the course of week.
 AN ODD LITTLE MAN.
 "A week." he said grimly; T couldn' tell you all that happened ill day. Dit you notice that little shuff1ing man whose head scarcely comes up to tn window? He never comes here less tha1 six times a day and he never buys nor than one stamp at time. 1 asked hin once why he did not get twenty or thirt in a lot. 'Oh,' he said, with shrew air, people like to borrow them to much. He is the queerest one of all tn queer ones who come here. His offic is several blocks away from the post office, and yet he will hobble down her
 again and again in a day rather tha : take more than one stamp. have tr1e to get him to buy more, but he won
 think of such thing. He always come to my window. l have seen him go ] the end of line of ten or twenty befo1
 my window when there were not five 6 5 the next one. If happen to be away { l dinner or off duty when he wants 5 stamp, he goes out and comes in agai 5 every minute or two until return. H
 is queer one, he is.
 Then" he went on, "thero is tl
 special delivery stamp. That makes
 good deal of trouble. Only one man , ten can remember the name of it.
 have had it called the hurry up stam] E the get there stamp, the quick, rush special, extra stamp, and dozen othe 3 names, but seldom the right one, whi 7 about twenty times day some funn
 man comes in and asks with big gri ! for P. D. e. stamp. I have got { s tired of that stale old Joke that alwa, } pretend not to know what he means. F can stand anything but that, Oh, ye this is good place to see strange peopl e but it isn't worth your while to listen
 me. Just stand here and watch thel a for yourself. ."-New York Tribune.
 Returned for Their Tails.
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