The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-02
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ed that unless he could limit the weight
of the parcel to eleven pounds nothing
could be done for him. He was not heard
from again.
Coming to another group Of oddities I
select the confding method which an
English woman resident In Siam adopted
with the object of being economical She
mailed to London several parcels declared
to contain walking sticks to the value of
e los. Somehow the suspicion Of the GUS
toms officer were aroused, and he found
that in the parcels there were diamonds
and jewelry worth not less than $4,000.
The lady, no doubt, desired to save the
sum represented between the ordinary
parcel rate and the registered letter rate
and TO that end she took large risks with
her gems. Bonds valued at fl 600 were adj
dressed TO a small German town, but they
got lost, and could not be traced beyond
Cologne. Subsequently the bonds we're
delivered TO the banker in London by a
minister of religion. He explained that
they had been intrusted to a minister of
the same faith in Germany, by a dying
man who desired to restore the property
10 the owner. That was the extent of the
solution.
A complaint was made at Liverpool that
a packet consisting of bottle of wine and
figs had not been delivered 1t was found
that the person who was to have posted the
figs. postman was blamed for not de-
livering "A letter to Mrs. Jones, New
market, near Byth." The address APP
piled to twenty-nine different Mrs. Jones'
and what could the poor postman do
However, the department was more sue
cessful with a letter sent to Bilston Stat
fordshire, "for the gentleman who was
looking at house." in quite another part
of the country. Also 1t traced a jeweer
assistant in a country town with no bet
Ter guidance than the direction, "he has
cork leg and a bright projecting set of
teeth" Again, however there Is
widow who may still be inveghlng against
the postmaster general for not finding an
address which she gave thus; "A widow
err gentleman, rather short, wears glasses,
with one little boy two years Of age" st.
Martin s-le-Grand can't do everything.
1t can't for example, issue marriage IL
censes, although a Northampton young
man believed ii ought to do so and was
indignant because it wouldn't. He ex-
planned that he wanted to be married qui-
city and he believed that the c. =. o.
would not tell about the license before
hand An elderly woman entered the
postofice at Greenock and requested the
clerk to write out and dispatch a message
for her, intimating that she would not re-
turn.home till the next morning. Then she
handed him the key of her house, saying
It was to go with the message, because the
dodgers could not get in without it. As
the key could not be sent by telegraph she
concluded that there was no use in send
ing the telegram. lit was an English lady
who appeared in the office at Ventnor and
asked the amazed officials to take care of
her poodle while she went to church serv-
ice When they meekly excused them
selves she spoke high words as to how
disobliging public servants could be. Then,
to make matters even all round shall
suppose that 1t was somebody in Ireland
who addressed a letter marked 'Imme-
date" to Stainer the German violin MAX
er, who had been dead 200 years.
viii the Duke of Norfolk not consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of resuming the curious
incidents" in his next annual report? They
are vastly entertaining in the month Of
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