It may be well to remind our readers that, in writing, Penn. and Tenn. look very much alike; and as there are a number of post offices of the same name in Tennessee and Pennsylvania, letters often go astray. Post offices and signatures are also so often written so hastily that nobody can guess at them. It wastes no end of time trying to make out bad writing.

This is particularly the case with letters in French or German that come to us from Europe. Even natives of these countries that we have to call in to help us in these difficult straits, are frequently unable to make them out. We have a letter from Italy, supposed to be in French, which has been on our table a month, and nobody can make it out.