t, in that it has caused the
emaciated corpse of the Kansas Democracy to take on the
semblance of life and sit up and take notice.

The belief in miracles is here strengthened by absolute
proof, showing that the proper call will restore animation
to the dead. If the Angel Gabriel, standing with one foot on
land and one on sea, were to blow such a blast from his
trumpet that the mountains should rock to their bases, the
Democratic party of Kansas would probably sleep on
undisturbed, but if he were even to whisper the magic words
"set 'em up," the grave of this moribund organization would
give up its dead, and from the entire aggregation, headed by
the talented and handsome Senator from Atchison, would come
the answer in swelling chorus, "We will take the same."

E.W. HOCH, Governor.

ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

Curious Letters That Enliven the Prosaic Records of the
United States Post-Office Department--The Human Nose as a
Sign-Board of Character--The Origin of Lynch Law--Amusing
Extracts From Old-Time Newspapers--The First Self-Made
American--The Comparative Longevity of Various
Callings--With Other Interesting Items From Many Sources.

HUMOROUS SIDE OF THE POSTAL SERVICE.

ILLITERACY OF RURAL OFFICIALS.

Fourth-Class Postmasters Sometimes
Write Queer Letters, Telling Their
Troubles to the Department.

The eagerness with which fourth-class postmasterships are sought seems
strange when one remembers that the salaries are small and the duties
often exacting. No fourth-class postmaster receives more than a thousand
dollars a year. More than half of them receive less than a hundred dollars
a year; fourteen thousand receive less than fifty dollars a year; and
hundreds of them receive ten or twelve dollars a year.

Henry A. Castle, former auditor for the Post-Office Department, recently
contributed to the _Sunday Magazine_ an article filled with curious
information concerning the fourth-class postmaster and his idiosyncrasies.
Here, for example, is a facetious letter from an Illinois postmaster who
for some time had been vainly trying to resign:

But anyhow, this time I am unanimously through fiddling
about it, and this here 'leventh and last resignation of
mine has got to be accepted, let the chips fall where they
may. Along about four o'clock this afternoon a passel of our
best citizens informed me in