How Not To Address Postal Cards

A recent telegram coutains the iollow ing, wbich will doubtless be of interest i to ottr readers : The Postoffice DepartI ment received a letter to-day from a firm in Chicago, complaining that six cents additional postage was charged them on postal card sent to their address, on ; j the face of which, in the lower lef t hand j corner, were written the worda, " Sept. ! ■ 13, 1875." As many complaints of this ! ! character are received at the Depart! ment, the folio wing reply to the above i letter is furnished for the information of t ie public : Gentlemen : In answer to your letter of the 15th iust., I havo to stato that, by a ruling of thia Department, airything whatever, except au addresa, writteu or printed upon 1 the üido of a postal card intonded for ' the addresB, rendéis snch card uuraailable, and tlje same caunot be legally forwarded, unleBa ' prepaid at the letter rate- three cents. If, by ïuadverteuce, it reaches its destinación without 8uch prepayment, it i chareablo vith doublé the letter ratea, under Sectiou 152, Testal laws edition of 1873. In acoordance with the said , ruling, the card submitted waH rondered ub! jeet to letter poetage by the wrltlng of the date ! on the side deaigned for the address, and haviug been forwarded without the prepaynieut of sueh poHtage, it became Hable to doublé the letter ratee - six cents. In coliectiug the I above, however. the Pobtmaster at Chicago Bhould have deductcd the oue ceut origiuilly paid for the card. Cakbï the news to Mary and the other girls ! Ahined-EViji-Gwalir, one of the most powerful Rajahs of the East IndieR, i has retained a largo suit of apartments ! at the Grand Hotel in Paris. Ho is j enormouüly lioh, unmarriod, and voi'y handsome - u trifle brcuze-colorod, poi haps, but tliat'B nothiag. Poor Lllow ! i Let him look out. JVrowaroed U irr ■ I