THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



of transformation commenced; and to-day
Kansas has the beginning of an institution
such as can hardly fail to be an incalculable
blessing to the industrial interests and social
life of that State.
  We had long been revolving a scheme of
this sort *in our mind for the Agricultural
College of this State, and are glad that we
are to have the advantage of so remarkable a
precedent.
  For the present we submit the simple ques-
tion whether there are not several institutions
of learning in Wisconsin, the general educa-
tional objects of whose organizations, as well
as the special interests of the localities where
they are, would be largely promoted by the
adoption of a policy like that of the Blue
Mount College of Kansas. The time has not
come when the offer should be made, but it
soon will come, and we hope this suggestion
will be of service in shaping the thoughts and
plans of the friends of industrial education
in all parts of the State.



      MI SC ELLA NE OU S.

          The New Post OfiLoeLaw.
  The following are some of the features of
the Post Office laws which took effect July 1:
  Section 3 absolutely prohibits the delivery
of any letter, newspaper, pamphlet or pack-
age whatever, until the postage charged there-
on shall be paid.
  Box-rent must be paid in advance.
  Unclaimed letters will be returned to the
Dead Letter Office one month after the date of
their advertisement.
  Letters bearing request to " return to Pwrit-
er." are not advertised, neither are drop let-
ters.
  The postage on letters returned from the
Dead Letter Office is reduced to three cents.
  The weight of mailable matter is limited to
four pounds.
  The postage on letters to the Pacific coast is
reduceJ to three cents per half ounce.
  Drop letters are charged with two cents
postage per half ounce, but the carrier's fee
is abolished.



Letter postage will be collected on any
newspaper or periodical so marked or written
upon as to give any other information than
that contained in the print. The same rule
applies to other mailable matter.
All letters not duly franked or prepaid,
(except soldiers' and naval letters), and all
printed matter except that Bent to regular
subscribers, and all miscellaneous mail matter
reaching the office of delivery without pre-
payment, is charged at double the usual rate
of postage.
  If the postage is partly prepaid, the unpaid
postage is charged at double rates.
  In all cases where the failure to prepay
postage is evidently intentional, such letters
will be forwarded with other " unmailable"
letters to the Dead Letter Office.
  Letters bearing request to " return to writ-
er," will, if no time be specified, be returned
at the expiration of thirty days after their
receipt. They should be returned promptly
at the time specified when the request is made
in any form.  A business card on a letter is
not, however, regarded as a request to return.
  The Registration fee will be, in future,
twenty cents, besides the regular postage, but
the sender receives the receipt of the party
addressed, and other measures are taken to
afford greater security to registered letters.
  The maximum standard weight for the sin-
gle rate of postage on printed and misceUane-
ous mail matter, is fixed at four ounces avoir-
dupois. The postage on transient mailable
matter is fixed at two cents per rate (four
ounces or less), and four cents per rate for
books.
  Three circulars pass at the same rate of
two cents, when enclosed in one unsealed en-
velope
  No extra charge is made, as heretofore, for
any business card or address printed on the
wrapper of a circular or newspaper.
  Only weekly newspapers can hereafter be
delivered free within the county where the
paper is published.
  The rate of postage on regular papers will



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