no more inter- esting chapter in our local history than that which shall fully go into the details of the newspaper history of Lancaster county. There cannot be a more fruitful or interesting field. Has any one here any idea of the number of newspapers and other publications that have been born in

been made, and much of the work had been done. In all, the names of about ninety periodicals published in the city of Lancaster between 1752 and 1885 ap- pear in the lists found in the local his- tories of Mombert and Evans & Ellis. To that list I added thirty-six new Dames, making the total about 126