Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — FUMIGATING THE MAIL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FUMIGATING THE MAIL.

That Coming from Yellow Fever Districts Is All Disinfected. All the mail from the fever-infected districts is perforated and disinfected by a corps of mail clerks. Armed with paddles studded with short, sharp nails they perforate all letters, papers and packages.

When the mail is thoroughly paddled the car is closed and the* fumigating machine lighted. This is allowed to burn for an hour or so, and then the mail is fit to be distributed. The orders are explicit and photographs going through the Southern mails at this time are likely to turn up with the eyes missing. The jury in the case of Valet Albert V. Sugden, charged with steeling jewelry and bric-a-brac from the house of Millionaire Richard T. Wilson in New York, brought in a verdict of guilty of grand larceny in the second degree and strongly recommended Sugden to the mercy of the court. All the salt furnaces on both Afees of the Ohio River near Point Pleasant, W. Va., are closed owing to the rine in the price of coal. They are compelled to pay $224 per 100 bushels and say they catsnot afford thia.

How Do Yom Wear Your Hat? “You can generally tell a man’s character from the way he wears his hat,” a physiognomist remarked the other day. “Indeed, tills is cne of the most reliable guides for the amateur character reader that 1 know. “Take the mat who blusters. He stands with his feet apart; wears his clothes at least a couple of sizes too large for him; and his hat stands bolt upright on his head, firm and precise, in a way that reminds you of a general in command. “The person who wears his hat deep down over bis eyes—on the bridge of bls nose, in fact—is given to melancholy, and is Inclined to be despondent about the future. But he is also quick at observation, and unselfish. The hat worn at the back of the head denotes Independence of a certain obstinate nature, self-esteem, purse-pride. “Some originality is expressed in the habit of wearing the headgear slightly to one side, though the Inclination to right or left should not be too strongly marked. If very noticeable, you have the ‘waggish’ individual. A man with a thoughtful, poetical temperament seldom looks well in a hat, being always seen at his best bareheaded; while, curiously enough, criminals of nearly all classes quite reverse this order of things.”—Answers.

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