Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-08-20
DE AID LETTER BLUNDERs
JIMMY REASONS why MIS-
slvEs 90 AsTRAY.
Specimen Address showing How People
Bother the clerks--Twenty Thous-
and Letters a Day Turn Up
at Washington.

that OF the approximate
Z. OVO. OJ0 900 packages OF mail mat
ter passing Annually through the mails
oil Uncle Fam Z. 200. 900 eventually
roach the hands OF Dead Letter o ice
Superintendent Liebhardt's clerks.
When the knowledge is dissent
mated throughout the United States
th4t about 81 per cent OF this Z. 90 -
no contains enclosures OF money and \
negotiable papers and stamps when .
u Is clearly comprehended by the
non .painstaking public tha, packages /
Al the rate OF between 95. 700 aud
100 0O9 arc received per year. and |
that the are either eventually sold
a. public auction or deposited TO the
credit Of Brother Jonathan-then
and then only will the major part of
tie publ use pains In their hand
writing aud avoid illegibility. omls.
SONS and incorrect addresses when
sending letter paper or package TO
friend va tacle Sans mail pouches.
II y rare that ans substantial loss
occurs except through carelessness
aud negligence % CORE spondent and
II those who use the mails would con
form 10 he plain aud simple require.
menIs OF the postal regulations and
would place name and address OF
sender upon the outside az the ca
yeiope or package, few such articles
wouid 60 Rs,ray
Dead letters ARE received at the
ratio Of 20 n09 per day. 5. 600 OF these
are without address
Under tho wstchiui care % Mrs. a.
ILL., Eyaas d very curious collection Is
being accumulated la Washington.
All these articles texcepi two mail
pouches deposited as reward for
faithful service 0t over ninety years.
on exhibition AZ this museum passed
through the United States mail and
have becn sent 10 The dead-ieiier olilce
as unavailable short Of postage with
cut address or without same or
sender
Hero il tho Record OF an valuable
letters 10 tho dcad-leiter o tcon from
! lTT5 10 iTss covering iorty-four
pages aud 800 entries In contrast
/ with this iha entries Of valuable lot.
terb received In the eleven years end.
ing June So lss. zone hundred years
laterl. wcro 2. Con. 5si.
There !, large skull In the coliec.
iiun which was addressed 20 Prof ;.
I n Gross Philadelphia aud by him ru-
fused on account 81 the excessive
postage due.
An interesting article on exhibition
Is sheet complied by The Hub
postmaster showing one hundred
variations IN spelling the word hic-
opeo Us received az the Boston post
olilce. Among this collection Is a
piece % cardboard on which is
roughly scratched poeiical inscrip-
tson and caricaturc with the written
longing. Il walt 10 be an angel.
The tirst verso Of this amateur from.
tier poetry runs thus.
on. what blessing railroads are
How happy felt IN the little car
That waftei INC onward 90 far away
From that man that insists that ] should
pas.
one from the pen Of the assassin o
Gar4eld Charles J. Guitcal runs Ia
rambling scmi-soliloquizing manner
10 follows:
she's my darling from this day
you will surely die for the murder o
james A. Garfield on the scafold high
my name It's Charles J. Guiteau IN!
name will never deny too leave m!
aged parents in sorrow for to die how
little did they think while in m.
youthful bloom would To taken from
tho scafTold 10 meet my fattle doom
In letter deposited here and writ
ten while in prison, was curl OF hi
. hair with this inscriptions "Tht
: contains my hatE Charles j. Gui
tcan. Accompanying this was re
quest for the modest sum OF 81, 600 {
Md In tho compensation OF his counsel
Z Needless to state the lady to whor
This letter was directed would have
\ Tho letter had not misoarrled decline,
!, the invitation SO coolly made.
Tho property division Of the dea
letter ONCE handles all the merchar
dise that finds It's way to Washington
and a motley collection it is. elias
cases covering three sides OF larg
room are kept filed with articles
4 show the curious visitors specimens
what Is sent through the mails.
II Among tho mostcurious but whic
must have hnvc been most uupleasar
surprises to the clerks who opene
y the packages containing them al
Q several large and ugly looking snake
e from Germany one a large rattl'
< snake with four rattles centipodes al
:. horned toads all OF which were r.
as oeIved alive. being sent In a perforatt
= box.
g Another instance OF the abuse
!, the mails Is the sending u loade
A. revolver TO Springfield. ILL.,. and fro
g there 10 Havana, Ill, whence 1t WI
returned to Washington. This w
Z undoubtedly sen. with the Idea IN
the young lady who received y wou
4. handle Il carelcssly and shoot herse
" or somebody elee. Several years as
a lettar reached here addressed
y. ,.r,sua ThrIat In Heaven.