Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE. [ARTICLE]

THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE.

Notwithstanding the great exertion the Post Office Department makes to find owners of letters and deliver letters to them, the number of letters which reach the Dead Letter Office now runs above 10,000 a day. The number received at the department during the past year has been over 4,000,000. Of these, 3,000,000 were uncalled for at the offices to which they were addressed. Nearly 100,000 came from hotels, addressed to persons who had failed to leave instructions to have their mail forwarded, a quarter of a million were sent because they were insufficiently prepaid. A thousand because they contained articles forbidden to be transported in the mails. Over 10,000 bear no superscription whatever. The number of dead letters mailed abroad was 350,000, all of which were returned to the country of their origin unopened. Of those received and opened in the past year, 40,000 contained money, drafts, money orders, etc., amounting to $2,000,000, and 44,000 contained paid notes, receipts and other canceled obligations. — Boston Traveller. THE ONLY CITY ON THE EQVATOK. At Quito, the only city in the world on the line of the equator, the sun sets and rises at 6 o’clock the year round. Your clock may break down, your watch get cranky, but the sun never makes a mistake here. When it disappears for the night it is 6 o’clock, and you can set your watch accordingly. In one part of the city it is the summer season and in the other part it is winter. Nervous debility, the curse of the American people, immediately yields to the action of Brown’s Iron Bitters.