The Archive · 1900

The Imperial Post Office

in this place kas recently secured more central quarters, and the mail passing through it shows a gratifying young man belonging to an influential watch sent friewl with a request Ut it be set to the exact time, Tit reason annexed was that the old mother in a neighbouring wealthy family was to be buried the next day, and, Hing to the horoscope, it was import= ant that the procession should start for (he cemetery ata certain time, Tt would be fine thing if the same virtue of promptitude 1 be extended to other oceasinus, For stance, when one has to wait front an howe to two hours at a feast in a stite of desultory vacuity, because some Chester field ian' friend thinks it impolite to mani fest any haste to arrive, thereby imp that good things were searce ath then one longs fora little of the promptitude which is is said to lo acterised men like Kant and Washington,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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