eland, with
about 2000 Firkins of choice Irish Butter, which we hope
will bring down the Price of that Article.

* * * * *

We get an idea of men's clothing in 1767 from the following:--

_WHEREAS in the Time of Divine Service Yesterday, the House
of the Subscriber was broke open, and the following Things
stolen from thence, viz._ a Chocolate-colour Coat and Jacket
trim'd with Brass Buttons, a cloth-colour'd cut-velvet
Jacket with white Buttons, a pair Wash-Leather Breeches with
white Buttons, five Silver Tea-Spoons, and one large ditto,
mark'd G.P. _Whoever shall apprehend the Thief or Thieves,
so that he or they may be convicted, shall have FOUR DOLLARS
Reward, paid by_

JOHN PRESCOTT.

Concord, September 14, 1767.

* * * * *

Lectures were not common in the last century. It was not until within
fifty or sixty years ago, when Lyceums began to be established, that the
lecture system became developed.

We find that in 1769 a Mr. Douglass lectured in Boston, according to an
advertisement in the "Chronicle," August 17th.

The well-known Colonel David Mason of the Revolution, who was a
prominent figure among the patriots at Leslie's Retreat at the North
Bridge in Salem in February, 1775, was one of the earliest, if not the
very first, to lecture in Salem upon a scientific subject. In the "Essex
Gazette," Jan. 15, 1771, we find his advertisement:--

_No longer than next Week, will
Continue to be exhibited, every Evening
in which the Air is dry, (Saturday and Sunday
excepted)_

A Course of Experiments in that instructive
and entertaining Branch of Natural PHILOSOPHY, called

=Electricity=,

To be accompanied with Methodical Lectures
on the Nature and Properties of that WONDERFUL ELEMENT,

By David Mason,

At his Dwelling-House near the North Bridge.
The Course to consist of two Lectures,
At a Pistareen each Lecture.

As the Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind,
and give us more noble, more grand and exalted Ideas of the
AUTHOR of Nature, and if well pursued, seldom fails
producing something _useful_ to Man, 'tis hoped these
Lectures may be thought worthy of Regard and Encouragement.

_Tickets t