Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-02
PosToFFlcE cuRIoslTIES.
Some Queer Packages Carried By the
Mails of Great Britain.

Some Queer Package. Carried By the
Malls Of Great Britain.
As usual, articles of great variety have
been discovered in the undelivered CORE
spondence and parcels. One parcel contained
q human skull, the crown of which had been
sawn off; another, thirty green tree frogs, all
alive In tin mold was discovered, still in
good condition, plum pudding which had
been sent to Australia three years previously,
and had found its way back owing to the i'm
possibility of tracing the lady to whom it
was addressed Specimens of the ladies' dress
inaprover and pac!.ets Of lElade IN hair for
ladies' head gear may De seen in the museum
in which these various articles find a tenn
porary resting place The composition of
some parcels at Christmas time was peculiar
In one were two petticoats, a pair of stays,
leg of mutton and packet of tobacco. In
another, a rabbit, stuffed with two tobacco
pipes, tobacco, doll and piece of bacon,
the whole being wrapped up in a lady's
jacket. In the parcels stopped in transit as
contrary to regulation were found a cat. q
squirrel, pigeons, lizards, dormice, snakes, a
cuckoo, muskrats and moles, all alive not to
mention one or two other parcels containing
dead dogs and cats.
During the repair of a postoftice wan In use
on a Cornish railway, :e5 note in a dilapi-
dated condition was found behind one of the
panels, and with the assistance of the authori-
ties of the Bank of England was returned to
It's grateful owner after lapse of twelve
years from the date when it was committed
to the post. In July, 1885, complaint was
made that registered letter containing
ESQ note had not been received at a country
village, and after careful inquiry no trace
could be found Of the missing letter or of its
contents
Nearly seven months afterward lady re-
siding In the same village happened to open
one of large number of newspapers which
had been delivered at her house during a pro-
longed absence from home, and which were
about to be destroyed unopened, and the let
ter dropped from between the folds Of the
newspapers, into which it had slipped while
in the post. She at once returned it 20 the
postoffice, and it was then duly delivered to
the addressed.
very Objectionable practice. and one
likely tn occasion risk and disappointment to
the sender, is the growing habit of transmit
ting money in various articles sent by parcel
post. -Four sovereign we're found in mass
of crushed grapes six in a packet of tobacco,
and ten shillings mixed I'D with smashed eggs
aud butter
A native of India, residing in London, Ok.
pressed a wish in September, 1888, to send
BY parcel post the ashes of his cremated
brother, to be dropped into the sacred Ganges,
but was informed that. unless he could limit
the weight Of the parcel tc eleven pounds.
the postofiice could offer him no facilities
No further application was received on the
subject.
In private letter box, near the front en-
trance of the farm of Whitepark, Castle
Douglas, tomtit has for three years built
her nest In the years 1887 and /; she per-
sistently pushed out the letters which were
placed in the box and rebuilt her nest when
it was removed. This year, however, she
permitted the letters to remain, and success
fully Matched five young ones.
The following curious letter, lately received
from Indiana, shows on the part of the writer
great confidence in the department: 'Dear
sir want to know If you know anything Of
G. D. l wanted to know and his son
henry ond if you know onything Of him lit
me know for he went in the war of 1919 I'M
der buckingham they man that ETCHED him
from that country 1862 they landed in Illinois
but the last account we had from him be was
still living in 1873 Mr.. R. W. said there
was money for b. D. at the old mans
death and l wlnted now If there was and il
not let me know and if not let me for need
the money and oblige MIR. H D."
4 letter was received from Naples bearing
for address a rough sketch of two pears with
the word London" underneath, and was
promptly delivered to the eminent soap
makers in New Oxford street, who readily
acknowledged the accura with which the
department had interpret .ne intent of the
writer.-Lverpool Courier.