Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1883 — A Stamp on a Newspaper. [ARTICLE]

A Stamp on a Newspaper.

“Do you wish that sent to the dead letter office ?” said a clerk at a stamp window in the postoffice pleasantly, as he noticed a gentleman affixing a stamp to a newspaper. “I can’t say that I do,” was the reply. “Why?” “Because you are evidently unaware that a sealed package is not carried by the United States mails for 1 cent.” “This is not a sealed package.” “Excuse me, sir, but it is. The stamp is partly on the wrapper and partly on the newspaper, and tjjie Postoffice Department has very properly decided that that makes it a sealed package. Packages of that kind may get through to their destination occasionallv, but it is in violation of the ini e. It is very convenient 1 to fasten a newspaperin "its wrapper in that way, but it should not be done." — Sun. - j . A fashion item says: “Trains are still ruched.” Trains are still derailed and telescoped occasionally, too,— Norristou-n Herald. Kino Solomon’s lodge of Masons of Charlestown, Mass., is the oldest Masonic body in this country.