DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS.—­The following is the list of names appended to that famous document, with the colony which each represented in Congress: 

New Hampshire—­Josiah Bartlett; William Whipple, Matthew Thornton.

Massachusetts—­John Hancock, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine.

Rhode Island—­Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery.

Connecticut—­Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott.

New York—­William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis
Morris.

New Jersey—­Richard Hockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark.

Pennsylvania—­Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross.

Delaware—­Caesar Rodney, George Reed, Thomas McKean.

Maryland—­Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, William Paca, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.

Virginia—­George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.

North Carolina—­William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn.

South Carolina—­Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch,
Jr., Arthur Middleton.

Georgia—­Button Gwinntet, Lyman Hall, George Walton.

LIFE OF ETHAN ALLEN.—­Colonel Ethan Allan was captured in an attack upon Montreal, September 25, 1775.  He was sent as prisoner to Great Britain, ostensibly for trial, but in a few months was sent back to America, and confined in prison ships and jails at Halifax and New York till May 3, 1778, when he was exchanged.  During most of his captivity he was treated as a felon and kept heavily ironed, but during 1777 was allowed restricted liberty on parole.  After his exchange he again offered his services to the patriot army, but because of trouble in Vermont was put in command of the militia in that State.  The British authorities were at that time making especial efforts to secure the allegiance of the Vermonters, and it was owing to Allen’s skillful negotiations that the question was kept open until the theater of war was changed, thus keeping the colony on the American side, but avoiding the attacks from the British that would certainly have followed an open avowal of their political preferences.  Allen died at Burlington, Vt., February 13, 1789.

BURIAL CUSTOMS.—­Among the early Christians the dead were buried with the face upward and the feet toward the east, in token of the resurrection at the coming again of the Sun of Righteousness.  It cannot be said, however, that the custom was first used by the Christians.  It was in practice among early pagan nations also, and is regarded as a survival of the ideas of the fire-worshipers.  The sun, which was the impersonation of deity to many primitive races, had his home in their mythology in the east, and out of respect for him the dead were placed facing this quarter, among certain tribes always in a sitting posture.  It may also be remarked that among other races the position was reversed, the dead body being placed with its feet toward the west, because the region of sunset was the home of the departed spirits.