Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-23

Drake, P. Jenkins, r. Abernethy, L.
Ivory, B. Fisher. The battery Is as
follows: Davenport and Shuford,
pitchers; Abernethy and Davenport,
catchers.
QUEER THINGS IN THE MAIL.
Snakes Have Been Found and Load.
cd Revolver With tho Hammer Up.
What might be called a Limbo Of
Lost Things has been established by
Uncle Sam at the postofice depart
ment. It Is a repository for all OBJ
jects that 60 astray on the earth-of
articles, more exactly speaking, which
are found in the mails, unbelievable
for one reason or another. Many of
them are wrongly addressed, while
others are confiscated because "un-
mailable" under the law.
The collection numbers not far from
10000 specimens, which, viewed as a
whole, present to the mind vivid no.
ton Of the variegated character Of the
merchandise transmitted through the
agency of the postal system in this
country.
Among the curios thus captured, and
now placed on exhibition for the
amusement Of the public, are razors,
dark lanterns, false teeth, packs of
cards, poker chips, hair curriers', gar
ters, pads for the hips and bust,
boxes Of bunion plasters, trusses, elec-
trio belts, hypodermic sy1nges, arti-
fetal eyes, imitation whiskers, coffin
plates, and a wig or two.
People will persist in sending
through the mails livestock Of various
kinds, particularly reptiles, such as al
ligators and snakes. One day, not very
long ago, seventeen snakes were found
in one package-among them a rat
tier eight feet long, one Of the biggest
ever captured, with nine rattles on the
end Of his tail.
In the confusion caused by the dis
closure of the contents of the parcel
one Of the serpents, a three e-foot ad-
der, made its escape unobserved, and
three weeks later the Dead Letter
office was set in a stir by the. reap
pearance of the "varmint" from be-
meath a desk.
There Is large two-story glass case
in the postal museum completely fill
ed with reptiles, stuffed or in alcohol,
which have turned up in the mails at
various times. Tourists who 60 to
Florida are fond Of sending small al
ligators home in this way sometimes
alive. From Arizona they forward ella
monsters and horned toads, while
giant centipedes and unpleasant-look-
ing tarantulas are always considered
appropriate gifts for shipment by post.
Many Of these animals are sent abroad
by people who look upon them as af-
rording a picturesque illustration of
che American fauna.
One of the most notable curios is q
shaving set sent by Pittsburg young
lady to a young man in whom she was
interested. 1t consists Of a razor with
half Of its edge broken off, a shaving
brush formed Of a beer jerker and a
bunch Of straws for bristles, a small
wooden cup containing sandsoap, and
two or three other things supposed to
be appropriate to the masculine toilet
Unfortunately, the joke missed fire, the
package going astray, and that Is why
the damsers gift is now on exhibi-
tion, together with her letter, which
accompanied it, at the post office de-
partment
There was another joker, a man In
this case, who had been thrown over
by young woman Of Fifth avenue,
New York. When the cards were out
for her marriage to a rival, he sent
to her by mail a life-sized colored baby
made Of calico. She Indignantly re-
fused to receive it, and it found its
way to the Limbo of Lost Things"
The girl was surely lucky to have
got rid of such a lover, whose sense of
humor was about on a par with that
Of another person who sent to his lady
love IL e letter written on a board
four feet long. There was 80 cents
postage due on it when it arrived, and
she very properly declined to pay it.
Probably intended as an insult was a
jawbone without any wrapper ad-
dressed to a man named Burke at
Watervliet, N. Y, though there was
nothing on 1t except the address, writ
ten on the bare bone, with a postage
stamp. 1t got there all right, but the
addressee would not accept it.
Yet another joke, and a heavy one,
was an ordinary brick, done up in pa
per and sealed and lacking about a
dollars worth Of postage, which the
recipient refused to supply. A pigs
tail, attached by a ribbon to a card,
went wrong somehow in the post-a
misfortune, inasmuch as it must have
had some occult significance, possibly
derisive.
Opium pipes. packages Of refined
opium, bottles Of stuff thrown up by
the Charleston earthquake, firecrack-
ers, kitchen utensils, carpenters tools,
horns and other musical instruments
help to compose the remarkable COL
lection described. Of pistols and
knives there Is a great variety. One
six shooter, with every chamber load
ed and at full cock, was addressed to
a woman in Springfield, Ohio, but, per-
haps fortunately for her, she could not
be found.
There are 500 worth of gold mug
gets awaiting claimant. Ditto, a
human ear. which nobody has called
for. A skull, addressed to a Philadel-
phia doctor, which he would not re-
ceive, and the scalp of an Indian wo-
man with long black hair, are among
the grewsome contributions.-Bosto
Herald.