We have seen an article, in several of the papers, purportion to be a letter, written by a distinguished orthodox clergyman in Washington, D. C. stating that the orthodox have resolved to abandon the attempt to stop the first day mails.

Take a long tube full of mercury and up-end it with its open end in a pool of mercury, and, Torricelli found, some but not all of the mercury flows out of the tube

I dropped by on Thursday, but you were out.

Hold tight, I will go and look for your orders in our back room.