In a third case, owing to failing signals, possibly from so simple a cause as the intermittent contact of the wire with a wet branch of a tree, or a particle of grit or dust finding its way between the points of the instrument, the import of the message was altogether changed. Thus, "Alfred doing well, enjoyed egg to-day," was received, "Alfred dying, enjoyed GG to-day." A gentleman telegraphed from London to his brother in the country to send a hack to meet him at the station; but when the gentleman arrived at the station he found a _sack_ waiting for him. A firm in London telegraphed, "_Send rails ten foot lengths_;" but the message was delivered, "_Send rails in foot lengths_." A person telegraphed to a friend to "take two stalls at the Haymarket," but the message conveyed directions to secure "two stables at the Haymarket." In another telegram, the intimation, "mother is no worse," was changed to "mother is no more." Again, "You will be glad to hear that your sister has accepted an engagement with your father's approval," was rendered, "that your sister has accepted an engagement with your father's apostle." In another case a plain business message, thus--"Come to me as early as you can, that we may arrange Wednesday," was given a matrimonial turn by being delivered as, "that we may arrange wedding." The next case is one in which a hungry man would doubtless be made an angry man in consequence of the mistake which occurred. His message, which was written thus,--"Shall arrive by train to-morrow _morning_; provide a good _supply_ of bread, butter, eggs, milk, and potatoes,"--was delivered as "provide a good _supper_ of bread," &c. In another instance the notice that "Mr ---- will come to-night with me at 7 to tea," was rendered, "Mr ---- will come to-night with me, get 7 to tea;" the only argument in favour of the mistake being "the more the merrier." Then, on another occasion, a telegram sent by a person in the country to "Madame ----, Costumier," at an address in London, conveying an order for a fancy dress, was presented to the maker of costumes as "Madame ----, Costermonger." In a telegram directed to "----, M.P., House of Commons," the address somehow got changed to "----, M.P., House of Correction;" but the member not being found there, the clerks at the delivering office suggested that it should be tried at the "House of Detention,"--a not unlikely place for successful delivery of such a message as things were at the time. It has been left to America to produce a mistake in telegraphing which, while it is very amusing, could not result in hurt or disappointment to any one. Here it is, just as received from the other side of the "ferry":--