fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

place. William A. Wallace, of East Earl township, Lancaster county, was born near the Cedar Grove Presbyterian church, and was graduated in 1836 in medicine from Jefferson Medical College. Shortly thereafter he went to Springfield, Illinois, where he soon became a leading physician ; and conducted a

. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of affording medical relief to the

general, that he has removed to the corner of South Duke and Vine streets, in the city of Lancaster, opposite Mr. Luke Brown's coach manu- factory and near the German Lutheran school house, where he has prepared suitable bathing rooms, on his newly-invented plan of using cold or warm baths, whereby the

a Lancaster Woman Exhibited at Franklin Institute By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Journal of Friday, October 22nd, 1824, con- tained an announcement that a hat of grass, made by Mrs. Hopkins, of Lancaster city, was on display at the first annual exhibition of Franklin Institute. The hat