with each distinct tribe, for the latter,like families,sprung from one fountain-head. The science of ethnology furnishes us with very meagre information; simply the color of the skin and hair, stature and mode of living. Failing, however, to associ- ate them with any of the races of the Eastern

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

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

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

know that even at the early day and stage of his art de- velopment he had as many as three pictures in this limited collection, Besides the work of American art- ists, this first annual exhibition included about 200 works of for- eign artists, ancient and modern, and already in Philadelphia or other

. The plans to go to Brandenburg were changed when the Letorts met William Penn in London. Penn granted Letort 30,000 acres on the Schuyl- kill, upon which to settle a group of Huguenots. A few families came with the Letorts and settled there; but on account of the remoteness these French colonists soon