/ 6 The New-York Historical Society particular, so we were delighted to secure a handbill ballyhooing a . . . Joice Heth, nurse to Gen. George Washington . . . Age of 161 Years! This famous old fraud started Barnum in the show business. He bought her in 1835 with the proceeds from the sale of his unsuccessful little grocery store, took her from Philadelphia to New York and on the way to Boston showed her at various places including Albany. It is probable that this handbill was for the Albany showing. Another with similar wording but advertising her stay at Boston is at the American Antiquarian Society. Barnum taught her a choice lot of anecdotes about little George which she was always happy to tell her paying guests and it is recorded that she often laughed heartily on these occasions as well she might for, on her death, an autopsy showed that, in spite of her wrinkles, she was only about 80 and so could never have seen Washington, let alone tended him as a baby. But Barnum was grateful for the fine start she gave him in the show business and so finally buried the old lady in the same cemetery with himself. Another hoax, but one which its perpetrator William Miller and thousands of his followers believed in for many years, was the prediction that the world would come to an end in March 1843 (later postponed to 1844). Miller and his lieutenants went about the Eastern States lecturing on the subject and, to add awe to their discourses, displayed a banner showing a whole menagerie of the lurid beasts of the book of Revelations. This banner was printed on muslin and arranged on rollers for easy display on the speaker's platform. We now have one of the four surviving examples of this educational Millerite poster which caused so many sleepless nights in New England and the Middle States in the 1840s. When the predicted dates came and went without the faithful being snatched up to Heaven, many of Miller's followers lost interest in the cause. In spite of our great collection of New York prints we always add new ones each year. This time we were especially glad to secure a delightful aquatint of a View of the New York Quaran-