A Letter Forty Years Reaching Its Destination

A Washington correspondent s'iys un ' application wh íve.oived ut the Deád 1 Letter Office quite rtecenÜy, from Mr. Palm?r Gnrdner, of Burlington, Hacimcoiintv, Wis., tot: letter mailed to faun in 1885. ïhis letter cbntained a certifícate of deposft for $MH), issued ly tho Qnondaga li.mk, Sjr.'eusi, Ñ. Y., alud was sont trom thero in October of the yer mentioned, by Win. N. Gardner, to ; Lis brother. Pahner Gardner, at "De( troit, Michigan Tewitoiy. " Not b(ing : cluimcd at Detroit, it whh ent to the j Dead Letter Offu-e, and thence back to the Postmnster at Syraeuse, wlio, bing imalilo to flnd the se'nder, retnrned it to the Dead Letter Office again, wliei-e it lny undifiturbed in the dnsty file until the Cfiitc-nnial Exhibition. It was then conveyed, with otlier curiositieK of the Dead 'Letter Oftice, to Philadolphm, and there ohonoed to be seen by an lu'qiiuintanoe of Mr. ötednei, wlio informed him of his disoovery, and thus, after the lapée of more tliaii forty years, the letter reaohed it-s dcntin:ition. The postiige on the letter when it was fint mailed from Syiacuse was 25 cents.