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...been liberally distributed, would appear singularly attractive. Investigation of those interested in the promotion of these ventures does not disclose anything to inspire confidence. Absolutely no proof of the merit of these stocks is advanced beyond the usual hyperboles and vague insinuations of the salesmen who are part and parcel of the schemes...
Beware of the swarthy gentleman with the pursued look and the bundle under his arm. Once safely inside your room he will open that parcel and bring forth anything from cigars to winter suitings. Taking you into the closet he will whisper in your car that he has just come from Cuba or Canada and has managed to get by the custom officials. He wants to go to Chicago and must raise the money immediately. Much as it displeases him he realizes that he must sell his treasures. Since they didn't cost him much in their native land...
...Victorian runs back to that first love affair of David Copperfield's, when Miss Shepherd, whom the Misses Nettingall outrageously stood in the stocks for turning in her toes, Miss Shepherd to whom as a token of affection he gave twelve Brazil nuts, "difficult to pack into a parcel of any regular shape; hard to crack even in room doors... and oily when cracked," was mistress of his heart. "At home, in my own room," David writes, "I am sometimes moved to cry out, 'Oh, Miss Shepherd!' in a transport of love." "Oh" isn't definite...
...George von L. Meyer '79, Postmaster General of the United States, delivered a very interesting and instructive lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening. He advocated the extension of a general parcel post as necessary for our farmers, and a system of postal savings banks that would keep our money from being sent out of the country by ignorant immigrants...
...Meyer then turned to his special subject, by stating that we should have a parcel post system in the United States. We must now pay more to send a package from New York to Boston than to ship it to Europe; whereas four pounds is the limit weight for this country, packages weighing eleven pounds can be sent to Europe. If this system were brought up-to-date, it would be of immense value to the farmer, who could order all his goods by mail and thus save time and expense...