ANDREW ELLICOTT, In the December number of the new magazine called the World's Work appeared an article under the title of "The Building of a Great Capi- tal." It is a well-written and hand- somely illustrated paper, and worth reading, but some of the statements made in the article do not seem to

All Early Letter by Thaddeus Stems, In an address on "Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer," which I pre- pared sor the Pennsylvania State Bar Association last June, and subsequent- ly elaborated and illustrated sor publi- cation in the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society proceedings, I avowed

announces to the ladies of Lancaster that she will make habits, caps, chapeau, &c., aster all sorts of sashions. He lived at the widow Newman's. Lancaster must have had some reputation as a literary center even at that early period, and earlier still. In the Maryland Journal, of August 20, 1773, published

, and formed a beautiful large star of red, white and blue streaks. At first nearly always in vibration until it reached the middle of the horizon, where the center of the star became red. It extended to the east and west, then passed toward the south and dis- appeared. Lasted about 22 minutes. May 7

AN OLD MILL AND ITS OWNERS If you go down the entire length South Queen street to the banks of the stream which was once known as the Conestogoe, though in our par- lance os the present century we have changed the two final vowels into the softer a, you will come to "Graeff's Landing," in sormer

by Burnside & Smith, on North Queen street. A copy, and perhaps the only one in ex- istence, is in possession of the writer. On September 28, 1803, Francis A. Latta, Charles Cummins and John Waugh certify that "By appointment of the Presbytery of New Castle, met at this place, we this day visited the

An Old Receipt Book. It is always interesting to make comparisons, and when you have a hundred years as a dividing line and you know what is on this end of the line, curiosity, such as the fisherman possesses under such circumstances, leads us to wonder about the other end. The old book in question

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