Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1883 — Cheap Postal Service. [ARTICLE]

Cheap Postal Service.

The cheapest postal service in the world is that of Japan, where letters are conveyed all over the Empire for 2 sen —abbut 7-10 of a penny. This is more wonderful considering the difficulties of transit over* a mountainous and lrroguular country which has less than 100 miles of railway, while wagons can only pass over a few* of the chief roads, and the steamers connect but a small number of coast stations. A burr means of overcoming a dislike which we entertain for unv one is to do him a little kindaess every day; and the way to overcome a dislike which another may feel toward you is to say some little kind word of him every day. The death rate ot Div> ton, Ohio, is the smallest of any city of its size in the United States. «.