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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 413, 2 April 1879, Page 3

The Post Office in England continues to be Used as a means of transmitting articles 'of almost every variety from one part of the country to the other. The following articles amongst others, were observed during the year 1878 :—A dormouse, four white mice, two goldlinehes, a lizard, and : a blind worm, all alive ; cutlery, medicine, varnish, ointments, perfumery, articles of “dress, a stoat, a squirrel, fish, leeches, i'rcgs, beetles,caterpillars, and vegetables: Many of these being prohibited articles, were sent to the Returned Letter Office. A snake about a yard in length, which had been committed to the post for transmission in a box, was observed to be at large 'on the floor of one of the night mail sorting carnages in the London and North Western Railway. After a good deal of •confusion and interruption to the work it was killed. A small box which reached the Returned Letter Office in Liverpool was found, on being opened} to contain ■flight living snakes. Timaru journal is responsible for the following :—“Two persons of repeatable appearance entered a public-house not many miles from the village of Redhill, and requested to have dinner served them. Mine host complied with their request by placing a leg of pork before them, and having done ample justice to it they called for some ale. After enjoying themselves for some time, one of the “ gentlemen” proposed to the other to run a race of 150 yards, the loser to pay for the dinner, &c. Accordingly the worthy landlord measured the ground and started the “ gentlemen.” Observing that they ran beyond the distance measured, and supposing that they were doing so in ignorance} he called otu lustily ; but they continued to run until they were out of sight} and did not return. The landlord, therefore, had the mortification of finding that lie had been duped, fur they ran off ; without paying for their dinner.” Well-dressed Men—Among those habitual errors of conduct which are common in both careful and careless persons, not one is more often met with than disregard of the advantages derivable from being well dressed; yet whoever lives observantly in such a' County as Patea, is soon convinced that this mistake is fruitful of mischievous results. All of us instinctively judge from first impressions; we proceed from the exterior to the interior; a well-dressed man gratifies our fondness for beauty and our appreciation of neatness; and there is no one, however cynical or unobservant, but is pleased when a well-dressed person, even if a stranger, passes by, and disposed to think favorably of him. This universal disposition cannot safely be offended. To be habitually a sloven is to constantly, though unconsciously, offend numerous persons, among whom the favour - of some may be valuable; and therefore a shrewd man is not content to make himself neat now and then, but always will appear well dressed. He keeps his clothes in good order, and is careful in the selection of a tailor. In bringing this maxim before public hotice, E. A. Adams, Cardigan House, is gratified by remembering that the disposition of a great many of his customers to appear in public well"dressed has been met by the combination in his goods of selection, material.