New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-09

ask you for a tuber thaTe that IS good 20 eat
Called uruguay IL looks like potato wish you
would send me this tUber as would like TO see
how il looks and raise some please let me no
and Oblige viii make it awlwright with you
Evidently the writer wishes a French tuber.
The following came from Ohio;
Dear Sir:
/ saw an article some time ago in the Cleve-
land Press about Uruguay potato. Please send
me SIX barrels, collect i have farm near
Cleveland upon which l would Ike to try them.
Hoping TO receive an early reply. for which you
viii find 10 cents enclosed for postage, l am
yours truly
Z. S.-Please return this slip.
The above was written with a lead pencil upon
four sheets Of paper foolscap size, that neces-
Stated one frame for delivery
The following comes from Galveston:
Honored Sir:
Please iuforIne me where that Potato seed can
be had which the national society Of agriculture
Of france has adopted as its motto MY pTother
knew consul that was in france once Yours
honored sir.
America has sent amusing letters. but as
amusing letters have been sent from elsewhere.
A letter from Cape Town reads:
Honored consul:
NV mother was born in America. Please send
me q sample Of the potato If you find you cant
send sample send an eye To see that Wll
pay you you may draw OF me for the costs
Most respectfully
suppose the eye Of the potato would see that
this son Of an American honored the draft
A translated letter from Italy. which shows
some diplomacy. reads as follows:
Sir. I am very much interested in report
made bv YOU TO your honored government some
time ago / wish TO say that as a piece of
literature your report is unsurpassed In II
YOU prove your profound acquaintance win
agriculture. I speak OF the solanum CONNER
sofii ] would not trouble you if you could
arrange 10 have the French National Society OF
Agriculture send me several bushels Tor the IN
closed stamps.
ton you are distinguished
Not all the amusing letters received by an
American consul treat Of Irish potatoes Among
others he receives such as the following:
Dear Sir: / have seen in the market place Of
Rouen a species Of bird which pick fish scales
only between 10 and IL o'clock in the morning:
II you could give me the name Of this bird
would be grateful.
] OrIltLOlOSlSt-
You may address me at the Hotel Terminus,
Paris, I am on my way there. Yours very
truly.
So a consul is expected TO know all about
tubers and be a professor OF ORTHODOXY as we'll
Among my letters some time ago happened
upon that read:
Dear Sir: regret not having had the time to
call TO see you during my stop over at Rouen,
but my trunk has been attached at the Hotel
de Ia Poste. Could you see to having IL for
warded TO me at Paris. Hotel lena
You viii be paid. Very respectfully.
Not much to please the writer as out OF
curiosity when taking my daily walk I went in
20 ask the director Of the hotel about the matter.
He showed me the trunk, which bore the name
of a person familiar TO every Intelligent Amer
ican I may add ! was more than repaid by a
millionaire son Of the lady who passed few
DAYS later. The mother would not settle bill
charging her - cents for pear. AS her hus-
band is a California fruitgrower and exports
the same pears twenty-five for cent, she should
perhaps not be blamed
The following written by a celebrated
French civil engineer who is now in his dOtage
Monsieur le Consul: I am interested in having
the Seine deepened. I notice that a NeW-YOrE
journal says that the wealthy n. - has
offered a million dollars to any one who vii
make him nose. That is to say, we viii
make the nose Of NJ. -- dig out the Seine
II the Seine was deepeIIed SO TO admit YES
sels OF thirty feet and the Simplon tunnel was
finished it would be the greatest thing in the
world for commerce between American and
France.
Please notify me IL Monsieur - will allow
my son 10 make the amputation.
] viii pass TO you tomorrow with teSd
nonials 10 my sons ability.
Receive, Monsieur le Consul. the assurance o.
my distinguished consideration
In addition TO being intimately acquainted
with Irish potatoes and birds and forwarde
of trunks, an American consul should also SCI
TO the amputation Of his countrymen's nasa