reproduced. All have been enlarged about one-third. �history, derived from Dr. Seidenstick- er's "First Century of German Print- ing," may not be amiss. It was the third German newspaper published in Pennsylvania. The first number was issued on August 7, 1787. The pub- lishers were Steiner, Albrecht and Lahn

Harrisburg a few weeks ago, my attention was called by Mr. Luther R. Kelker, the archivist, to a document of prodigious size, which had lately been found and renovated. The original was almost four feet long and two feet wide. During the 136 years it had lain in the archives and from the rough treatment it

earliest record of his artistic life that I have found dates back to about the year 1820, when, at the age of twenty-two years, he opened a studio in the bor- ough of Marietta, where the late Judge John J. Liebhart became one of his students, acquiring no little pro- ficiency in portrait painting, and one

Col, John Connolly, It was my intention to prepare an article for our Society on the Loyalists of the country during the Revolution- ary era, singling out the more notable ones of Pennsylvania for notice in de- tail, but my researches resulted in such a mass of material as precluded all idea of

Mr- F. S- Klinger, for similar favors, generously tendered, It is a pleasure to know there are those among us who for years have been untiring in colecting and pre- serving the memorials of other days which the wasting tooth of time is rapidly sweeping from sight and memory- �day which they trusted

, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1899. Peace to the Brave! They do not need our praising, For in all hearts is treasured every name; Yet for the future we to-day are raising A tablet to their fame. And while the trees put on their fading splendors And trail their banners like to knights of old

Medicine Book,compiled from Useful Manuscripts, by Daniel Schmidt." Second edition, 1 vol., 192 pages. JOSEPH EHRENFREID. 1826-1827. In 1826, after a disappearance of nine years, Joseph Ehrenfreid again made his apeparance. This time his enter- prise was a German monthly, called "The Religious Family

hundred years before the Christian era. It is more than likely that even barbarian nations had their public shows of a rude kind even thousands of years before that period. No nation or tribe has even been found that did not have its sports or amusements, al- though we may not be justified in dig- nifying

. �The late Alfred sanderson, as quoted by Mr. s. M. sener, in his notes on our early theatres, some years ago wrote an article on the "Theatres of Lancaster," in which he stated that he had witnessed early performances in the Landis Theatre, on Chestnut street, near Prince, the first building in

of all the men who lived and died in this city and couhty be- tween 1730 and 1825 there is hardly one who has left behind him an auto- biography, memoir or diary of the events that fell into the first hundred years of our recorded history. There is so much that we would like to know, so much of