NOTE. POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS. (Prepared Sept., 1887, at the Post Office, Boston.) DOMESTIC. All kinds of mail matter (except regular publications sent to subscribers) must be prepaid by postage stamps. FIRST CLASS MATTER. . LETTERS AND POSTAL CARDS in the U. S. Letters. (To be sent beyond the office where deposited, or for any lettercarrier office.) Letters and written matter, also all articles sealed, for each cunce or fraction thereof, no limit to weight. Must be prepaid Drop or Local Letters. (To be sent within the delivery of the office where deposited, if not a letter-carrier office) for each ounce or fraction Registered Letters. The fee for registered letters (in addition to the regular postage, which must be fully prepaid) is, per letter Postal Cards, with no writing on the face but the address, cost each Special (or Immediate) Delivery Letters. They require a special stamp, in addition to regular postage. SECOND CLASS MATTER. (Rates for Publishers.) All Newspapers and other Periodicals, one copy to each actual subscriber residing within the county where they are printed, wholly or in part, and published, except those deliverable at letter-carrier offices Newspapers (except weeklies) and Periodicals to regular subscribers, and not for letter-carrier offices, each pound or fraction When for letter-carrier offices, for two ounces or fraction For weeklies, deliverable by carriers, or at letter-carrier offices, for each pound or fraction THIRD CLASS MATTER. : free. .01 .01 .01 MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED MATTER in the U. S. Transient Newspapers and Periodicals, printed regularly in known offices of publication, not over 4 lbs. in weight, for each four ounces or fraction, .01 Pamphlets, occasional publications, proof-sheets or corrected proofs, and manuscript copy accompanying the same, and all matter wholly in print not issued regularly, in which the printing forms the principal use, and not exceeding four pounds in weight, for each two ounces or fraction Books (only printed). For each two ounces or fraction, not over four pounds in weight (single volumes may be over) Fee for registration, in addition to the postage, for each package MERCHANDISE in the U. S. .01 .01 Merchandise.-Samples of metals, ores, minerals, or merchandise, paint- UNITED STATES MONEY ORDERS. .01 .10 UNITED STATES POSTAL NOTES. Postal Notes may be obtained in any office that issues money orders, for any amount, from 1 ct. to $4.99, inclusive, upon payment of 3 cts. in addition. They are made payable to the bearer in any money-order office in the U.S., named on their face, or in the office where procured, at any time FOREIGN. Universal Postal Union. The rates for the countries and places which belong to the Postal Union, a list of which is given below, are as follows: Prepayment optional, except for registered articles, but on printed matter and samples, postage must be at least partially prepaid. LETTERS.-5 cents per 15 grammes, a weight very slightly over one half ounce. -POST CARDS.-2 cents each. PRINTED MATTER.-1 cent for each two ounces or fraction. Limit of weight, 4 lbs. 6 oz. COMMERCIAL PAPERS (Insurance Documents, Way Bills, Invoices, Papers of Legal Procedure, Manuscripts of Works, &c.) The same as for printed matter, but the lowest charge is 5 cents. SAMPLES OF MERCHANDISE.-The rate is the same as for printed matter, but the lowest charge is 2 cents. Limit of weight 8 oz., except to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, and Argentine Republic, to which countries the limit of weight is 12 oz. Argentine Rep. Costa Rica. Austria-Hunga- Danish Col. Bermudas. British W. Afr. British W. Ind. Denmark. Hong Kong. Iceland. Ireland. France. Mauritius. French Col.of Af- Montenegro. rica, Amer., Asia, Netherlands. and Oceanica. British Guiana. Germany. Brit. Honduras. Great Britain. British India. Greece. Greenland. Cameroons, W.Af. Guatemala. Bulgaria. Netherland Col. Portuguese Col. Russia. Sandwich Isl. Spain. Spanish Col. of Afr., Amer., Asia, and Oceanica. Straits Settlements. Newfoundland. St. Vincent. Heligoland. Honduras. Peru. Uruguay. To Canada, comprising British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, the postage for letters and printed matter is the same as in the United States, and samples, ten cents for a weight limited to 8 ounces. All matter for Canada must be fully prepaid, except letters, which must be prepaid at least 2 cents. Merchandise is not allowed in the mails to Canada. To Mexico, postage is the same as in the United States. All mail matter may be registered to the above places upon prepayment of 10 cents for each address, besides the postage. Places not Included in the Postal Union, Africa (South), Cape of Good Hope, New Zealand Orange Free State, Caffraria, etc.*.15 Queensland and New So. Wales, Ascension Australia (South and West) Fiji and Navigator's Islands, Madagascar (except St. Marie, Tamatave and Nossi Be). To Africa (South), including Cape of Good Hope, Caffraria, Natal, Orange Free State, etc., and to St. Helena and Ascension, the postage for newspapers is 4 cts. each, if not over 4 oz., and on other printed matter, and on samples, 5 cts. for each 2 oz. To New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, and Victoria, newspapers are 2 cts. each; other printed matter, etc., 4 cts. for 4 oz. To Madagascar, newspapers are 6 cts. each, if not over 4 oz.; Transvaal, 5 cts. each, if not over 4 oz. ; and other printed matter, and samples, are 7 cts. each 2 oz. INTERNATIONAL MONEY ORDERS. To Canada (including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, etc.), Great Britain and Ireland, Germany, France, Algeria, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Norway and Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Jamaica, New Zealand, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, Hawaiian Islands, Cape of Good Hope, Constantinople, Hong Kong and Egypt, Japan and British India. On orders not exceeding $10 Over $10 and not exceeding $20 Over $20 and not exceeding $30 HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. THE REASON. - Many a child goes astray simply because home lack: sunshine. Children need smiles as much as the flowers need sunbeams. If a thing pleases, they are apt to seek it; if it displeases, they are apt to avoid it. If home is a place where faces are sour, and words harsh, and fault-finding is ever in the ascendant, they will spend as many hours as possible elsewhere. A Year of Sunshine. TO DRIVE OFF VERMIN. If rats enter the cellar, a little powdered potash thrown into their holes, or mixed with meal and scattered in their runways, never fails to drive them away. Cayenne pepper will keep the buttery and storeroom free from rats and cockroaches. If a mouse make an entrance into any part of your dwellings, saturate a rag with cayenn in solution, or sprinkle dry cayenne on some loose cotton, and stuff it int a hole, which can be repaired with either wood or mortar. No rat o mouse will eat that rag for the purpose of opening communication with: depot of supplies. - Scientific American. SAVE THE EYES.-Many people who are obliged to use their eyes stead ily in reading, writing, painting, etc., suffer much from the weakness those organs. It will prove a relief to all and a cure in most cases to observ this rule: Every fifteen or twenty minutes give the eyes a rest by liftir the head and looking up and around for a minute or two. This allows t eyes to change their focus, and relieves the continuous strain of one a justment. We have known people who had spent much money for glass and eye-washes to be cured of all trouble by following this simple rule. TRUE GREATNESS. - I honor that man whose ambition it is, not to w laurels in the state or the army, not to be a jurist or a naturalist, not to a poet or a commander, but to be a master of living well, and to adm ister the offices of master or servant, of husband, father and friend. I it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functio - as much or more, -and the reason for the failure is the same. I thi the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. — R. Emerson. TO CLEANSE BLANKETS. Put two large tablespoonfuls of borax a a pint bowl of soft soap into a tub of cold water. When dissolved, put a pair of blankets and let them remain over night. Next day rub th out, and rinse thoroughly in two waters and hang them up to dry. not wring them. TO REMOVE GREASE. To remove grease from wall paper, lay seve folds of blotting paper on the spot and hold a hot iron near it until t grease is absorbed. HONOR THE WIFE.-He who respects his wife will find that she respe him. With what measure he metes it shall be measured to him again, go measure, pressed down, and running over. He who consults his spor will have a good counsellor. I have heard our minister say, "Woma instincts are often truer than man's reason." They jump at a thing once, and are wise off-hand. Say what you will of your wife's advi it's likely you'll be sorry you did not take it. - John Ploughman. THE CHEAPEST SUGAR.-There is no economy in purchasing bro sugar. The moisture it contains more than makes up for the differe in price; but for some things, such as dark cake and mince pies, m cooks prefer it. Granulated sugar is the purest and best for ordin uses. Mrs. Gilpin's Frugalities. POTATO SOUP.--One heaping cupful of cold mashed potatoes, cupful of cold mashed turnips. If these vegetables are left over fi dinner they will have butter in them, otherwise you must add a ta spoonful. Stir the vegetables together and add a pint of hot wate which one onion has been boiled. Put all on the stove stirring carefu When thoroughly hot, and free from all lumps, add one quart of hot n |
