Taken from the 1893 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac.

• Explosives
• Poisons
• Liquids
• Ardent
• Inflammable oils
• Animals (alive or dead)
• Fresh fruit liable to decomposition
• Insects (except queen bees and their attendant bees and dried insects when safely packed)
• Substances exhaling an offensive odor
• Obscene and indecent books, prints, writings or papers
• All letters upon the envelopes of which, or postal cards indecent, lewd, obscene or lascivious delineations, epithets, terms or language are written or printed
• All matter concerning lotteries or other similar enterprises offering prizes, or concerning schemes devised or intended to defraud the public or for the purpose of obtaining money under false pretences.
• All mail matter not addressed to a post office or to no particular person, firm, company or publication