Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Carelessness With Letters. [ARTICLE]

Carelessness With Letters.

Nearly 22,000 letters were posted in England last year without any address. Among these mysterious missives were more than 1,100 containing cash, bank notes, checks, and bills, with an aggregate value of above £4,000. As many as 72,000 postage-stamps were found loose in the letter boxes. More than 27,000 articles of various kinds escaped from the covers in which they had been imperfectly secured, and were sent to the Returned Letter Office. This flotsam of the Postoffice showed last year an increase of one-half as compared with the rear before. At the present time the German empire is represented abroad by eleven Consul Generals, thirty-six Consuls, and three Vice Consuls, while in addition to these Germany has 611 so-called Merchant Consuls or Vice Consuls, and eighty-four Consular Agents. The greater number of these Consuls are in European countries, there being seven-ty-three in the United Kingdom alone—-forty-seven in England, eighteen in Scotland, and eight in Ireland. In the United States there are seventeen consulates, the Consuls at New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, San Francisco, and St. Louis belonging to the regular service.