Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1890 — Curious Loss in the Mail. [ARTICLE]

Curious Loss in the Mail.

At Christmas time some person, in another city inclosed a gold ring in a letter as a gift to a friend in this city. When the letter was delivered the ring was found to be missing, and a clean-cut circular hole through the envelope showed how it had escaped. A search was insti'uted, and it was found that the letter containing the ring had been place 1 in the package beside a packet containing quite a large sum of money in greenbacks. The weight of mail matter upon the bag containing these letters had forced the ring through the envelope in which it was contained and nearly through the package of greenbacks, in which it was found embedded. When the money packet was opened the ring dropped out, together with a large number of circular fragments of greenbacks of the exact 6ize of the ring, which had been cut out as neatly as with a die. —boston Advertiser. ~ An elephant at Philadelphia.died suddenly the other day from enlargement of the heart. Its heart was fonnd to be abnormally large. It more than filled a washtub" and weighed 102 pounds. The big-hearted bat unfortunate animal was 114 years old. A shorthand reporter in Placer County, California, charged for punctuation marks as if they were words, and the county wants $104.30 refunded.