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I want you to read it carefully. Without going further with this matter, I may say here that the bookarrived presently, and between us we did work out a considerable numberof the claimed acrostics by following the rules laid down. It was as incomprehensible as such things always are. All the other wonderful inventions of the human brain sink pretty nearly into commonplaces contrasted with this awful mechanical miracle.

We've found fault and criticized him, and here a day or two ago we go and elect him for another four years, with votes enough to spare to do it over again. asants--that is to say, brown, handsome, good-natured, courteous, & entirely independent without making any offensive show of it. This wasnot strictly true; but regulations were not very severe in those days,and the ruse had been regarded as a good joke, which had yieldedexcellent results. Among the tributes that came, was a sermon by the Rev.