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HOST COMIC NEWSPAPER.

Printed in Arizona by Garage Proprietor.

The funniest newspaper in the orld has been "discovered" in merica.

It is called the Salome Sun, priated in the Arizona desert by garage proprietor, and has made whole continent laugh. Dick Wick Hall (bis real name) the editor, and be rolled up to alome, in Arizons, when trade

as deadly dull,

THE CHINESE POST

OFFICE.

A Year of Transition

THE" "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

was put into operation during the year. The new scheme excludes the figures of free articles of Service correspondence which Dumbered over 9 millions in the return for the year 1921. Besides, the statistice of mail matter which bitherto were takon both at the The report on the working of Sub-Offices and at their Control the Chinese Post Office last yearling Offices in certain districts has just been issued, and com-bave, under this new procedure, prises a more than usually in boon take only at the HeadOffices, teresting document. It states:- The above, in addition to the

Reviewed."

The high hopes entertained at adverse results of certain districts. the closs of 1921 of the results of in which business has been affect the following year's working wore ed by local disturbances, has not entirely realised in 1922. The resulted in a decrease in the So he opened a "Laughing Gas state of the country being gen-statistical figures. Consequently, tation" for motorists on the road erally unpropitious for postal ex the grand total of mail matter om Salome to California, expansion, the thought and effort so posted amoun's to 426 millions, as ains Mr. J. M. Seabright, in the fully exponded in recent years against 442 millions in the year Batjupon inland extension and local 1921, a decrease of 16 milliona. Dearborn Independent." obody took any notice of it until mail ameliorations have this year The figures under discussion, how e put up this sign

Where wo sell gasoline Ile, and ke your money with a smile, Old Rokefeller made bis File, ad maybe we will afterwile.

Five now tires we want to sell canned tomatoes and black Try jeli.

Ice cream soda and almost beer- acetylene welding done right

GROWTH OF PARCEL 'POST. Apart from other unfavourable

been turned in large measure to ever, surpassed those of 1920 by 20 the improvement of staff candi-millions. Of the above decrease tions. The abnormal and grow of 16 millions, ordinary articles ing increase in the prices of com accounted for about 544 millions, modities and the wages of labour registered articles 934 millions, bas necessitated revisions of pay and express articles and insured for employees of all classes upon letters slightly over half a million. an almost unprecedented scale. Stepa have also been taken to re- duce the working hours of the conditions, the parcel business în sorting and delivering staff who North China continued to increase As it was difficult to tell the in the past have had to labour for and more than made good the

returns otor road called the Ymaresque longer hours thau are generally decreased ighway from the rabbit tracke, prescribed in other government southern part of the country, even ick Wick Hall thought he would departments. This has neccseit although the civil war between Alvanise the road supervisors into sted an increase of personnel quite the Chibli and Fengtien parties Stivity. So he bought & mimeo. apart from the additional require sikewise affected trade to a certain aph and printed the Salome ments under this heading to nieet extent. For instance, the parcel the augmented business anticip-business in Shantung was very

316.

from the

in, handing it out to his cuested as a result of the closing of depressed" during the first half- mara when they came along.

the foreign Postal Agencies. A year but revived during the latter It is headed Made with

The total declared value ugh on a mimeograph." "A generous soleme of superannua-half.

od tickle for a nickel, a long tion, too, has been introduced for of parcels posted in Chihli alone ller for a dollar," To make the subsidiary grades, giving them has been increased from 8 million the comfortable hope of an old dollars to over 20 million dollarë, u emile for balf a mile," Salome's now newspaper spread 1ge free from pecuniary anxieties. on account of the enormous ex- and wide, and advertised the ECONOMY FOUND NECESSARY, port of fars to Europe and mmunity tbus:-

These measures combined with america. The extension of the Balome-where she danced-is the decline in the value of money!" drawback" system by the Cus healthiest and fastest growing and the consequent riee in the toms to goods of Siberian origin, ace in the U.S. Eighteen years cost of all services" have greatly imported into Manchouli and re- o there was no one here but me enhanced the establishment char exported abroad in their original d Tom Finnegan, and some gea, so that rigid economy in packages, also contributed to the ck rabbits and jackasses-and every other line of postal expendi-increase. In brief. the parcel w there are 19 people, not ture has been the keynote of the business in the provinces not unting some I don't like-an year. Bailding projects have been specified is on the increase and erage gain of over 100 per cent. curtailed or abandoned, with ex-shows marked improvement.

The telegram service has bean: year; pretty good considering ception of the new Shanghai Post

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1923.

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It takes half an hour to turn as soon as possible is imporative, Since its inauguration on the lat t an edition of the Sun, in- and also such others of minor im-July 1920 the new scheme bas ading the poetry, usually written portance as were already nearing boen carried on very satisfactorily. block form, as follows:- completion. This policy, inculcat- and smoothly. Two years* ex- Tell me, some of you hard-ed with considerable urgency and perience gained in harmonious iled kids, what's the mattersome anxiety, is accountable for co-operation between the Tele th the katydids? What makes the fact that the balance on the graph and Post Offices convinced; om toller all night and squeal year's working is still on the right the authoritles of both Adminis- te some old wagon with an un-side of the account. The addi-trations that further development based wheel?

Did you tional staff charges, however, of the Service was desirable and, er wonder and stop to think how have not yet had time to be cam-on the 1st July 1922, an extension. sponge must feel when it takes pletely fait; they will be appre was made to places where Third drink; and what a thrill ciated to the full in future years. Class Post Offices function with are certainly is when a scorpion A source of additional revenue money order facilities but where

was sought in the reversion from there are no Telegraph Offices. nge with that tail of his? Salome (Where She Danced) is 1st November to the old domestic

CALCULATED MURDER.

Hungarian's Methodical Progress.

THE STAFF.

e only community that has ever tariff in force during the early At the end of the year the en built up on one man's years of the Chinese Post Office, foreign staff consisted of 23 Com- mour, and Dick Wick Hall has and the application of the 35-cent missioners, 15 Deputy Commis- used frantic sums from Ameri-unit for international corresponsioners (of whom eight were a publishers to quit it.

dence AS approved by the acting as Commissioners,) 69 As- Madrid Convention, but as the purpose of this alteration of the distants (one of whom was acting

18 Commissioner and 15 as De tariff was misconstrued and the puty Commissioners,) one Service application of the higher rates Buildings Surveyor. one Proof- has not proved practicable, they reader, three Postal Officers, and are being withdrawn from the

one Transport Officer. beginning of the new year.

"The Chinese staff consisted off two Commissioners, eight D puty The horrors of the Lindru case POSTAL SUPPLY DEPARTMENT.

The functions of the Depart-Commissioners (one of whom e called back to our mind by the ede of the twenty-four-year-old ment were considerably enlarged waa acting as Commissioner), 65 ungarian, Joseph Toib, who when it undertook the manu Assistants (11 of whom ware

of pillar-boxes, and acting

Commis- A8 Deputy urdered four people-a whole facture mily-in order to get possession strong-room doors in its own sioners), 1,143 Clerks, 20 Mis- their house and money, writes workshops; but from the pointe cellaneous (five Draughtsmen, Press correspondent at Vienna. of view of both economy and two Writers, nine Shroffe, and An old Hungarian. Andreas quality of output, the step taken four Copy-holders), 3,113 Yu-wu- achman, emigrated many years has been amply justified. The shoog, 2,533 Sorters. 8875 Agents, 1922 witnessed further 6,572 Postmen (5,823 Ordinary to to America and returned to year ungary last year with his family developments in the way of in- and 749 Rural), 7,386 Couriers, 3 saved dollars in America, and ternal production and has made 657 Laodabe, Sailors, etc., 653 rt of his savings were invested this Department a strong co-effi- Tingch'ai, and 1,540 Miscellane- a lovely villa and park in the cient of the various Service un-ous employees, a total of 32,573, ighbourhood of Budapest. His dertakings that make for effi- as against 31,843 at the end-of

and economy. The 1921. ughter, Mrs. Koevess, a divoro.ciency woman of 40 years of age, made mechanical department is now e acquaintance of Toth, who turning out, in quantities suffi- as a grocer's assistant but later cient to cover all the needs of the

sied himself entirely with ex-Service, lead seale and lead types for dators (Chinese and foreign at ange speculations, An intrigue started between a cost from 30 per cent. to 45 per oth and Mrs. Kosvesa, and a cent, lower than it has hitherto s old man refused to supply been possible to secure supplies. ore money for the expensive In the printing department im- bits of his daughter, Toth, portant innovations were made.

NOT FOR BABIES ONLY.

Baby's Own Tablets Benefit

Children of Any Age. Baby's Own Tablets are not for babies only. They are helpful and healthful for children of all ages.

The mother who keeps Baby's

gether with Mrs. Lachman and In the course of the year a large Own Tablets, the Canadian chil-

Babcock" printing press was dren's remedy, in the house feolaj ra. Koevens, killed the old man

the safe, for the use of these Tablets ad buried him six feet deep under laid down primarily for

which prevents stomach and bowel

e dining room. They told the printing of postcards,

i Baby's Own Tablets make teeth.

ighbours that old Lachman had hitherto have been printed by trouble, and if sickness comes sud- the Customs Statistical Depart dealy they help bring the little turned to America, Toth then bad the family in his ment. When not engaged on

one through. inds. In turn he killed with a postcards, the press is used for volver the fifteen year-son of the printing of forme, of which ing essy, are a positively harmless rs. Koovess and buried him large quantities have already remedy for simple fever, indiges- Cloth taga, tion, colic, constipation, diarrhoea ader & room, and finally the been turned out.

a perfectly natural way to weary, pain-racked little hindies, sooth the

a women were strangled, their which have superseded the com- and worms, quickly bring sleep in dies being put in tin boxes, her-paratively wooden and menile etically sealed, and then buried tags formerly in general use, are

also made and printed at the nerves, aid the appetite, promote a garden near Kispest, The murders were committed Supply Department as a cost. con- regular healthy development.

to eight months ago, but Tothsiderably cheaper. The various Obtainable from druggists, also cceeded in lulling suspicion by uniforms in use in the Service post free, 60 cents the vial, from ying that the family had return were standardised in design The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,

60 Kianges Road, Shanghai. Ito America. Indeed, a few days during the year.

Sfore the murders Toth show-REVISED STATISTICAL METHODS. the neighbours the passport With a view to obtaining more sed for the United States. All accurate figures of mail matter.

Vistos SupremROY.

THE VICTROLA.

bodies eventually were found, pasted, a rovised procedure for the only instrument roasgnised by e id Toth confessed his crime the taking of domestic statistics Reddy, Ariete Ark Montales for `n Catalogu

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