Lancaster." In that paper is described the unsuccessful attempt of the three American envoys, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall, to establish diplomatic relations with the French Republic. The first dispatches of the envoys, sent from Paris October 22nd, 1797, reached

adventure which was to determine his career. In 1790, at the age of twenty-four, young Wilson published a volume of poems, the second edition of which appeared in 1791. The following year, he published, anonymously, "Watty and Meg," the author- ship of which was by some ascribed to Robert Burns. He got into

perils and hardships, his vessel en- tered the Thames at London and Mittelberger landed safely on the same day on which, four years before, he had trod the soil of North America. An African Lion in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A S early as 1727 a lion was exhibited in Philadelphia. (Scharf and