Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Cheapest Postage. [ARTICLE]

Cheapest Postage.

The popular idea, even among well informed person#, is that Japan lias the cheapest postal system in the world; a letter can be conveyed to any part of that kingdom fpr 2 sene equivalent to about three-fifths of an American cent. In reality, however, the Indian empire takes the palm for cheapness. Post cards there cost 1 farthing each, letters are sent for 1 halfpenny 1 each, newspapers up to an ounce and a quarter in weight for one-eighth of a penny and Itooks and patterns 3 farthings for four ounces, or threepence per pound. Talk about some men being poor at relating anecdotes; did you ever he-ar a woman try? Girls, there-, are few men worth the attention and hard, work necessary to Batch them. „