advertised to be run over the course at New Holland, Lancaster county, Pa., for a purse of sixty dollars. The race was to consist of two mile heats3 and repeat; it was open for any horse, mare or gelding; and each horse was required to carry 140 pounds. An entrance fee of three dollars was required, if

been claimed, and pos- sibly with truth, that a Sunday school was conducted by the monks of the Cloister at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., as early as 1739,—forty-one years before the printer at Gloucester, England, gathered the waifs of his town into a similar school. It is also stated in the report

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

this paper, which is to show the in- terest many intelligent people of Lancaster county manifested in the origin and development of the American Philosophical Society. Reference has been made to the two rival organizations located in Phila- delphia at the same time,—the American Philosophical Society

cere- monies were preceded by an academic procession from the First Reformed church to the Fulton Opera House. Few exhibitions of a similar character had ever been held in Lancaster, and the long line of marchers, in caps and gowns, was of unusual interest to the townspeople. After the induction of the

social rank, the streets of Lancaster, because of the painted signs of these taverns, resembled an out-door picture gallery. These signs hung from a projecting bar of iron, usually from the second story, over the main entrance to the hostelry, and bore, for instance, the names and the pictured