what a child would picture to itself as a typical witch. Laying the burnt hand on the table, she immediately commenced making signs and crosses over the hurt with her long index finger, while she mur- mured her incantations—actions which, from the uncanny feeling excited in the lad, temporarily took

- ruary, 1798, by the Rev. Mr. Meltz- heimer, Bartram Galbraith, of Lan- caster county, to the amiable Miss Harriet Hiding. daughter of John Huling, of Lycoming county." I copy a few of the obituary records: July 8, 1796. Died, in Philadelphia, on Sunday, the 26th ult., and on Mon- day following was

filled with advertisements, and pretty gen- erally the last column on the third page also,making very commonly four columns os advertising out of a total of twelve columns; sometimes there were as many as six columns. �Advertisements offering farms for sale in all parts of the county, in other counties

talent, and (here and there) by some acknowledged genius, such as Burns; a few communica- tions to the editors, and notices of marriages and deaths. Occasionally only a news item. We find that, "on the 7th inst. (of September, 1804), as Mr. James Coch- ran of this county was driving his team (the

one John George Hohman, of Berks county, caused to be printed a small volume, called the "Long Lost Friend," which has gone through at least a half-dozen editions, so great being the demand for it. A Lancaster firm reprinted this book only two years ago, and copies are readily sold at fifty cents each