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

masses from the Fatherland to Penn's Province in the new world. On account of the continued persecutions of the Pietists in Germany, the attention of such leaders as Kelpius, Kiister, Falckner and others was seriously turned to Pennsylvania with the result that an expedition including them was sent to

AN OLD ATLAS By William Frederic Worner Among the treasures preserved in the library and museum of the Lancas- ter County Historical Society, is an old volume entitled: The Life of George Washington Maps and Subscribers' Names 1807 It is a small volume, eleven inches long by nine inches wide; and

the Connecticut paper until nearly one month later. This is an admirable illustration or how slowly news was transmitted one hundred and fifty years ago. How great a change has taken place! On New Year's Day, 1927, some of us listened to a human voice giving a detailed account of every play made in a