FARCICAL RED TAPE. Inland penny postage having come in here, though postcards still cost a penny, a thoughtful gentleman took 200 of the latter, unused, to a post office, and asked for stamps in exchange. For tho same money ho preferred to send letters.
“ Impossible,” said the clerk. • “Yet I have constantly exchanged postcards which had been written upon, but had not been posted.” “That is so.”
‘ ‘ Then, if I write anything that comes into my head upon these 200 postcards, without posting them, you will exchange them ” “That is so.”
The industrious gentleman thereupon addressed all tho 200 postcards to imaginary persons in the moon, and presented them to the clerk, who gravely coanted them, duly noted that each had been written upon, without having been posted, and gave him 200 penny stamps in exchange.—Paris correspondent ‘ Daily Telegraph.’
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Evening Star, Issue 14413, 8 July 1910, Page 2
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