Bomb

Sweeping in a Manhattan post office, last week, a negro employe stepped on a parcel and was startled to hear it go siss, and emit wisps of smoke. He gave it a "kick, let out a yell. The package stopped smoking, and nothing happened.

Addressed to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York, the package was diagnosed as a bomb. Only oldtime bomb-touchers were allowed to handle it. On his way to Albany, Gov. Roosevelt remarked: "That's the first I've heard about bombs since I left the Navy Department."

Made of a tin box, an iron pipe, a pinch of gun powder, a box of matches, sandpaper and some wax, the "bomb" turned out to be a "practical joke."