back up the
hill again, the surprised hill residents could only vent their rage in
unchurchly language. Although the old building is still standing, the
present society worship in a more modern edifice.

The house built by Elnathan Osborn, in 1696, still stands in Danbury,
Connecticut. One of the Osborns was six years old when General Tryon's
British troops visited the place. The lad came home from school to find
the house full of redcoats. They were making free with the contents of
the buttery. The boy attempted to back out, when one of the men called
to him, "Come in, lad, we won't hurt you." "Is there any cider in the
house?" asked the soldier. The boy took out a large wooden bowl, went
down cellar, and filled it several times with apple juice for the men.
When the British fired the village, a few hours later, there was no
torch applied to the home of Elnathan Osborn. The house still stands at
the foot of Main street. It is a low, hip-roofed house, studded with
enormous beams, and lighted with tiny diamond window-panes.

The oldest building in Boston is said to be the one which stands at the
corner of Moon and Sun Court streets. It was built in 1677, and conveyed
by Benjamin Rawlings to Ralph Barger, February 8, 1699, for L45, New
England currency, as per record in Registry of Deeds, lib. 19, fol. 270.

John Hollis, Braintree, who died in 1718, left, as is recorded in the
inventory of his estate, "one baptising suit."

Edwin D. Mead, of Boston, is to give a course of six lectures on "The
Pilgrim Fathers," before the students of Bates College at Lewiston, Me.
The lectures will begin March 1, and will be open to the public.

The New Haven Colony Historical Society has for its officers Simeon E.
Baldwin president, ex-Governor English vice president, Thomas R.
Trowbridge, Jr., secretary, Robert Peck treasurer, and a board of
twenty-five directors.

A lively discussion has been started as to which is the oldest church in
Connecticut. Stamford claims that its church that just celebrated its
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary was the first organized on
Connecticut soil. An old pastor of the First Church of Hartford writes
to claim that that church was organized in 1633, and that the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary was celebrated in 1883. Stamford does
not deny that the Hartford Church may have been organized in 1633, but
says it was not in Connecticut at that time.

Hartford, Conn., has a public library of thi