The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-05-16
ENGLISH POST OFFICE STORIES
Amusing Excuses Made by Employees
Letters That Are Very Blind
ly Addressed.

A telegraph messenger was assault
ed while on duty and was laid up in con-
sequence. The following is taken
from his letter of explanations: Zone
of them threw the core of an apple at
me, which hit me in the ear; took no
notice of that, and walked on, and then
they threw their hats at me. | turned
round, and was about to say: who
are you throwing at?' when l took my
own part and hit him back, and a
crowd gathered. I stopped to pick up
my hat, when he kicked me, which
proved fatal, and ran away" But the
end is happily, not yet, as the boy con-
cludes: 81 hope it will not last long"
The loss of savings-bank book was
reported, and shortly afterward the
| following letter was received in the de-
partment:
''The bank book has been found. 1t
seems that the book had been placed
between the lid and box of a station
ary case, the position of lid and box
having been reversed; that is, the box
was put into the lid instead of the lid
being put on the box. Mrs. - had
searched through the contents of this
box many times, and, curiously enough,
she states that the secret was revealed
to her in a dream"
A travelling post office sorter was re-
ported for an erroneous entry of a reg
| istered letter, and his explanation has
literary merits which make it worthy
| of place in these pages:
"The explanation of this psycholog-
ical blunder lies, no doubt, in the fact
that when separating the registered
letter fort St-port from those for
So-port, the Importance of distinc-
tion occupied the field of conscious
ness to the exclusion of everything
else. On no other hypothesis can I
actually explain this inverted advisal,
which regret"
We can imagine the expression on
the officials face while this explana-
tion was being read, without, perhaps,
being understood, says London ST.
Martin's-le-Grand.
One letter shows that some widows,
at least, have full appreciation of the
deceitfulness of man. The other day
the savings bank department. received
the following: "Will you be kind
enough to let me know If Mr.. John
Smith has got hundred pounds in he
savings bank, and If so will you kindly
let me know. as he was paying his ad-
dresses to me for some time. Has / am
only widow woman and do not wish
to be taken in by him"
Tales are printed indicating the per-
| severance and intelligence of officials
! in calculating quaint addresses. One
letter was addressed simply; "25th
March, Clifton" To Postman Wade
must go the credit of having correctly
surmised that this letter was intended
for Lady Day. the wife of the Judge of
assize, Mr.. Justice Day, then staying in
| Clifton. A letter addressed to "W. d.
aud H. o." without street or town be-
ing named, came from distant coun-
try and was delivered to the firm of w.
d. & H. o. Wills & Co., in Bristol, for
whom it was found to be intended. DIR
| Grace received an envelope with merely
the initials 'W. g." and two bats and
balls and stumps on the q envelope,
while another letter, with drawings
not too clear-of a flower, an co." and
a representation of siXpenee, cottage
marked ''hospital," and creek and an
urn. was delivered to Miss Violet O.
Tanner, the Cottage hospital, Crew
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