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8. Kendall. Montana, September 9 1902. BULKY POST CARDS. Ping-Pong Balls and Other Articles In the Mails. Banknotes Employed aa Writing Pa- per by Etztravag - ant or Foolish Persons—The Message of a Dying Soldier., The use of ping -pang halls as post cards is the latest freak of seekers for novelty. It started in Liverpool quite recent- ly, and despite its obvious disadvan- tages, is spreading in England. The principal result is much unhappiness to the postman and a recent new reg- ulation in some places forbidding all such unhandy missives. The balls were stamped, an address written under the stamp, and the mes- sage scrawled on the rest of the sur- face. These clumsy and bulky post cards were posted in Liverpool by the thousands and gave the post office au- thorities an immense amount of extra work. says Hearst's Chicago American. Among those idle people who from time to time have wasted their super- fluous energies in testing the forbear- ance of the postal officials, is a :man in Southampton. England, whose favor- ite form of missive used to be a postage stamp. But as he wrote the address on the face of the stamps, the author- ities decided that they were not bound to deliver them. It was probably the same person who afterward posted a complete pack of playing cards, each neatly addressed on the back, but with no message whatever on the colored side. Another very peculiar letter found in a London pillar -box last autumn was a green apple on one side of which was cut an address, and on the other the simple, but expressive message: \Sour—like you.\ Bank notes have been employed as a writing paper more than once by extravagant or foolish persons. Among the effects of an English miser who died about 15 years ago was found a £5 note on which the deceased had writ- ten directions as to the disposal of his property. At Hampstead there lived until recently a wealthy bachelor of whom it was said that he once wrate a proposal of marriage to a lady on the back of a $50 note, and because it - was sent back without a word of com- ment by the recipient, refused ever afterward to have anything to do with the fair sex. Whiting paper, or, indeed, paper of any kind, is usually at a premium among soldiers on active service. Many very curious substitutes came from the British soldiers in South Africa. One of the commonest has been mealie leaves. \Menne\ is the South African name for maize. Round the maize cob grow a number of strong enveloping sheaths, which, when dry, turn, to a pale yellow color and can then be written upon. After Colenso there was found grasped in the stiffened handsof a dead soldier a piece of leather with a dying message scrawled upon it with a stump of pencil. It was a layer of the sole of the dead man's boot., which had probably been loosened with much . marching, and which he had contrived to rip off. It safely reached the poor fellow's family in England. From the l'hilippines, too. Romecu- rious letters have been received by the friends of American soldiers fight- ing in those islands. One of the most ingenious was a piece of native bam- boo, about a foot long, on which an ad- dress had been carved with pen- knife. The letter was inside t his hol- low tube, and held there by wooden pins at each end. The writer ex- plained that he had found it impossible to get an envelope or to find any gum to make one, so had, bad recourse to this expedient. • - The ceiling of a room is, as a rule. KO far out of ordinary reach that the Idea of using it for writing on seems strange. lint in a cave tried last year in England it transpired that a land- lady had been in the habit of using her ceiling in lieu of a rent -book. Upon it were inscribed the various amounts received from her lodgers. As it was, of course, impossible to bring this strange rent book into court, a certi- fied copy had to be made for the use of the judge. LOOKING FOR A WIFE. He Was \Muskier\ and \Morrell\ But Couldn't Boast of Much Educatioa. A Mississippi man sent the following letter in answer to a matrimonial ad- vertisement: \1 inclose my photograf with My Full Descriptions. It shows the features as nachel as can bee, only it is to Dark; I am very lite Com- plexion, Gray eyes, Orbon hair, 6 -foot high, weight 190 Lbs, inclined to be hump shouldered; A Muskier Man and a widower 28 years old, with A Com- mon School Equations, but hay Got Anof to Atten to Enny Business. I am Strictly Morrel. Don't use Tobacco Nor Whiskey.\ He is anxious to have her understand that her \Age Corn- plecktions, wait and. All Suits me to atee, Kind Loving Girl! I hay Only one Thing to Offer, And it is Neither Lands Nar Gold. But a Strong Arm and True Hart, and will Lay Down My Life for the Rite Girl and Be happy, for i am Tired of living Alone. That Girl that Steele my Hart and takes my Name for the Remainder of My Lif i will make Happy, for i am Hunting a Girl that i can idleise and Make a Angel of.\ Tree That Then. to Stone. There is a tree that grows In Mexico called the \chijol or stone tree. It is of enormous proportions, both in circumference and height. It has a number of branches spreading out widely and carrying leaves of a yellow- ish green color. The stood is extreme- ly fine and easily worked in a green state. It is not given to either warping or splitting. The most remarkable thing about it is that after being cut the wood gets gradually harder,and in the course of a few years it is absolute- ly petrified, whether left in the open air or buried in the ground. From this timber houses can be built completely fire -proof, and would last as long as though built of stone. Annual Deaths by Lightning. Incidental to the thunder season, the 'weather bureau has discovered that more than 700 persons are killed by lightning every year in the Ueited States. In matter of fatalities from. 1896 to 1900 Pennsy lvania ranked first with 186, Ohio was next With 135, and Illinois, Indiana and New York were tied for third with 124 victims each. The Way of the Frontier. The way of civilization in a new land passes comprehension. Its mot- to seems to he: ruin first; there is time afterward to save. Civilization Is a good deal like a wild, full-blood- ed boy; it must first sow wild oats, waste its patrimony, disgrace its an- tecedents; then it is ready to begin the ser 4 -iis work of life. That has been tl— history of the range coun- try; swift ruin for 30 or 40 years, with a resulting wreck that it will require a century of hard work, per- severance and self-control to save.— Century. Ms Identity, Bunco Steerer (suavs,ly)—Pardon me, but aren't you my old friend Farm- er MossIsacker. of Goshkonong? Farmer Brnadhead (mysteriously) .- -No; I am old Nick Sleuth, the fa- mous detective, disguised as a \good thing;\ but don't gimme away, young man.—Puck. latency. • Barkley—Poynter's greyhound was awarded a prize of $10 for perfect form at the dog show. Barker—Yes; and then the ladies' humane society had Poynter arrested, and he was fined $20 for shaping his dog with corsets.—Judge. Scarcity of Game. City Sportsman—Have you seen any- thing worth shooting at around here? Farmer—Well, no; not till you came.— Somerville Journal. BUSINESS and RESIDENT LOTS In the Town of Kendall are now on the Market 4 K ENDALL Is the Great Gold Camp of Montana And Now Is the Time to Secure Town Property Those who bought lots last fall can now realize Five Times more than they invested, and the boom has scarcely commenced.jijtjtjtjtjtjt All the information desired at my office in Kendall. W. A. SHAULES The Montana Land and Live Stock Exchange is my agent in Helena, flontana.
