Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1875 — The Latest Way. [ARTICLE]

The Latest Way.

Thb traveling agents who visit Vicksburg have a new and improved way of getting at business. The other day when one rappedat a door it was opened hut an inch or two, and the woman called out: “Don’t want anything!*’ “ Madam,” called the agent, “ you have a sister?” “ Yes,” was the answer, and the door opened a little more. “ And you haven’t heard from her lately?” “No.” “ Then you don’t know that—-that she It The woman opened wide the door, and excitedly asked: . “ What is it? What has happened to her?” “ Then you haven’t heard?” “ No—no—is Lucy dead ?” “Your sister, madam, is not dead, but —but——” “But what?” she wildly inquired, as he stepped up beside her. “ Your sister, madam,” he replied, unlocking his valise, “ purchased five boxes of this superb magical bluing of me, and earnestly entreats you to try at least one box—price, fifteen cents.” She didn’t appreciate his trick, and as he passed through the gate she glanced down at her feet, and then at his coattail, and sighed: “ Oh, I wish I weighed a ton!” —VicktburgHerald. Postmaster James, of New York city, has ordered that hereafter all letters addressed to his city marked poste rettante , “ to be called for,” or words to that effect, shall be retained for three months, subject to the. call of the persons addressed, before sending them to the Dead Letter Office It has formerly been the rule {o retfip ftejp for thirty days,

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