Those who please to favor the performers with their presence, are requested to take Tickets before the exhibition commences.--No pains will be spared to render the Entertainment as agreeable as possible. Sept. 27, 1808. * * * * * Monstrous Sight! TO be seen at A. POLLARD's Tavern, Elm Street--A white Greenland Sea BEAR, which was taken at sea, weighing 1000 wt. This animal lives either in the sea or on the land. They have been seen several leagues at sea, and sometimes floating on cakes of ice.--This animal displays a great natural curiosity.--Admittance 12 1-2 cts. ... children half price. april 28. [Boston] _Columbian Centinel_, 1810. * * * * * Just before the declaration of the last war against Great Britain "Non-Intercourse Quills" were for sale. This reminds us that most young people know but little about quills of any kind, and probably not one in a hundred knows, in these days, how to make a quill pen. Quills were in pretty general use for writing until about 1835 or 1836, when steel pens took their place to some extent, although quill pens were used by many down to a comparatively recent period, and occasionally a person may now be seen using one. Steel and silver pens were made by Shakers as early as 1824, and Cushing & Appleton had steel pens as early as 1811, according to an advertisement in the "Salem Gazette." =STEEL PENS= JUST received for sale by _CUSHING & APPLETON,_ Oct. 6th, 1811. NON-INTERCOURSE QUILLS. CUSHING & APPLETON have still on hand a few thousand _English_ QUILLS, which for a short time will be sold at the present low rate, for specie, or bills of any of the banks in Essex or Boston.---- --> Persons in want of Quills will please to recollect, that in about _two or three weeks_ the NON-INTERCOURSE with _Great Britain_ takes place, which in all probability will continue during the short time that Nation may exist, at least. Such another opportunity for purchasing can therefore never occur. Jan. 14, 1811. * * * * * J. Greenleaf sold steel pens in Boston in 1812. Steel Pens, [Illustration] A FURTHER supply of the celebrated STEEL PENS is received by J. GREENLEAF, No. 49, Cornhill. march 11 [1812]. SUPERIOR DESK KNIVES, MANUFACTURED in Paris of Damascus Steel and warranted. _Also_--an assortment of Steel & Silver Pens, from the Shaker Village. For sale by JOHN M. IVES,