Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — TO BETTER THE MAIL SERVICE. [ARTICLE]

TO BETTER THE MAIL SERVICE.

Directory Of All the United State* Compiled. In the foreign mail division of the dead letter office there is now being compiled a directory of all the schools, big and little, in the United States. The preparation of this directory is not as remarkable as the need for it. Nearly every day from 10,000 to 15,000 foreign letters reach this division addressed simply to schools or colleges in America with no town, county or State named in the address. The high state cf perfection to which “blind reading” has attained in the dead letter office is evident when it is known that 75 per cent, of these letters are speedily dispatched to their destination. Tho others go back unopened to the general postofiicea of the country whose , stamp they beau Mrs. Anderson Appell, wife of the leading merchant of Helix, Ind., attempted suicide with creosote, owing to jealousy of a servant girk She recently made an unsuccessful attempt to end her life with morphine. John Dowling, 21 years old, and John Galvin, aged 20, were drowned rt Sabbatia Park, Mass., by the overturning of a boat in which they were rawing. Henry Matthews, who was home secretary in Salisbury's cabinet from 1880 to 1802, has been raised to a peerage.