People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Historic Table. [ARTICLE]

Historic Table.

The women of Harrisburg, Pa., and vicinity will present Mrs. Potter Palmer, for her use in the Women’s building at the exposition, a table which will ba unique and historic. It will be made up of a panel of olive wood brought from the Mount of Olives, a panel made from the mulberry tree to which the Indians bound the founder of Harrisburg to burn him to death, pieces of oak from the timber which supports the old Liberty bell in Independence hall, strips from the old mahogany doors of the state house, a panel from the house used by Washington at Valley Forge, and a strip from the window siil of the old house on Arch street, Philadelphia, where the first American flag was made. —Mrs. Firstcaller (while her card is being sent up)—“Evidently Mrs. De Lancy objects to her daughters making lingering farewells in the hallway with their gentlemen friends.” Mrs. Secondcaller —“How do you know?” Mrs. Firstcaller —“The hall lamp has a grken shade, and you may rest assured .that the young ladies will not linger long in such an unfavorable light.”— Harper’s Bazar. /