. WASHINGTON, CONNECTICUT Imperforated stamps. The three stamps are of the 1908-09 issue. #344 has the words "two cents", while #408 and #409 have numerals in the corners. 4. WASHINGTON, GEORGIA The first city in the United States named in honor of George Washington. Coil stamps, perforated horizontally. #486

the continued growth of the fame of Lincoln may I refer to the Drinkwater play, which toured the United States about fifteen years ago, after playing in all the principal cities of England; the many movies portraying his life or parts of it; and the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" play running in the

had since. I went the campaign ; was elected ; ran for the Legislature the same year (1832) and was beaten, —the only time I ever have been beaten by the people. The next, and three succeeding biennial elections, I was elected to the Legislature. I was not a candidate after- wards. During the

of the negotiations with France, and the determination of the business men of Philadelphia to support the government. Following this, a meeting of the select council was held, "expressing to the President of the United States the highest approbation of his conduct relative to the existing differences

this morning. I have this day remitted to R. W. Bowden, Esq., treasurer of the Norfolk Howard Association, fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents, and made him acquainted with your suggestion, relative to its appropriation; the remaining half I have already appropriated in accordance with your

original distributorship of the Johnson Outboard Motor in the United States. During the three generations of their existence, they sold everything from Japanese novelties to washing machines. Douglas Darmstaetter said half their income came from photographic services. ". . . the Darmstaetters are

interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

con- sidered. I learn from the pages of pro- fane history of three separate and dis- tinct expeditions to what is still a terra incognita to modern savants. While Biblical history informs us of the commercial relations existing be- tween King Solomon and a land called by them Ophir, the latter

making the United States wholly inde- pendent of foreign countries in all articles of the first necessity, and in many of mere luxury and elegance. In the hour of war and affliction, the fostering hand of government was promised to these benefactors of the nation; liberal encouragement was unsparingly