A POSTAL CARD.

Thames Star, Issue 3829, 23 August 1879, Page 3

A POSTAL CARD.

There was some mad men in a certain Kentucky Post-office a few days ago. A postal card was dropped into the letterbox addressed to the " Key. John Penob■cot,——,———." It was an ordinary , card, and the postmaster was an ordinary postmaster. He took it up. glanced at the address, turned it over and read :— . ( , May 2, 1879.—Y0u, to whom this card is not addressed, and who. / nevertheless, have the cheek to read it, are a contemptible unprincipled sneak, aud a prying, pusillanimous coward. , ■'■>, Geohge F. Dugan. The postmaster laid the card gently down and lounged to the end oP the house, softly whistling "Nancy Lee." In due time the clerk came upon the card, perused it, and made the whole neighborhood hideous with the howls of his pet dog, which he kicked in the ribs. How the card fared with the various route agents through whom it passed it is impossible to say, nor do we know whether it was read by the woman who is post-mistress' of the office where the Rev. John Penobscot is supposed to get his mail; but the report is that on • the day it reached there she . smashed a bottle of ink on her husband's head, spanked the children all round, and chewed up 95 cents worth of wax. We cannot be too careful to write on postal cards anything in the least calculated to wound the sensitive delicacy of the Postoffice people's feelings.—-Louisville Courier Journal. ■■. ' •"