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or inflammable articles, live animals, or dead animals not stuffed, 

 fruits or vegetable matter liable to decomposition, comb-honey, 

 guano, articles exhaling a bad odor, vinous, spirituous, and malt 

 liquors, liquids liable to explosion, spontaneous combustion, or 

 ignition by shock or jar (for example, kerosene oil, naphtha, 

 benzine, turpentine, etc.). Bees and dried insects or reptiles 

 must be so put up as not to injure any one handling the mails, 

 nor to soil mail bags or their contents. 



Disease Germs. Discharges of any kind from diseased 

 persons, no matter how securely put up. 



Coin and Jewelry. Coin, jewelry, and other precious articles 

 prohibited by postal treaty from being sent in the mails to for- 

 eign countries. 



Scurrilous Matter. Matter upon the envelope or outside 

 cover or wrapper of which, or any postal card upon which, any 

 delineations, epithets, terms, or language of an indecent, lewd, 

 lascivious, obscene, libelous, scurrilous, defamatory, or threaten- 

 ing character, or calculated by the terms, or manner or style of 

 display, and obviously intended to reflect injuriously upon the 

 character or conduct of another, may be written or printed. 



Obscene Matter. Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious book, 

 pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publica- 

 tion of an indecent character, and every article or thing designed 

 or intended for the prevention of conception or procuring of 

 abortion, and every article or thing intended or adapted for any 

 indecent or immoral use, and every written or printed card, 

 letter, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any 

 kind giving information, directly or indirectly, where or how or 

 of whom, or by what means any of the hereinbefore-mentioned 

 matters, articles, or things may be obtained or made. 



Lottery Matter. Letters and circulars known to be concern- 

 ing lotteries, gift-concerts, etc., or concerning any scheme 

 devised and intended to receive and defraud the public for the 

 purpose of obtaining money under false pretenses. 



Mutilated. Matter recovered from wrecked or burned mail 

 cars or vessels, or matter damaged so that it cannot be for- 

 warded to destination. All matter found loose in the mails, 



