P. O. Box 171, Newton Centre, Massachusetts.
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Birds' eggs.
W. K. POST,
21 North Washington Square, New York City.
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Brazilian, Canadian, and Cuban stamps for a solid piece of flint
the size of an egg.
WILLIAM NALDRETT,
501 East Eleventh Street, New York City.
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Postage stamps.
TOMMIE SAMUELS,
Care of G. W. Newman & Co.,
Emporia, Kansas.
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Pressed ferns for autumn leaves or moss.
H. P. G., P. O. Box 1138,
Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
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Minerals and stamps for minerals and feathers.
HALLIE CRENSHAW,
Care of Postmaster, Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa.
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French and English coins.
W. B. SHOBER, Cumberland, Maryland.
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Postage stamps.
H. C. PEARSON,
Fishersville, Merrimac Co., New Hampshire.
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Postage stamps.
F. W. TREADWAY,
169 Jennings Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Postage stamps and postmarks.
CHARLES CARTER,
P. O. Box 1167, Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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Shells and quartz for minerals.
MAGGIE CRESWICK,
2912 Clark Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri.
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United States postmarks and pieces of the Washington Monument for
foreign stamps, shells, coins, minerals, or relics.
MABEL A. J. CORNISH,
310 First Street, S. E., Washington, D. C.
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A piece of rhinoceros skin for iron, lead, silver, or gold ore, or
for petrifactions.
GEORGE L. OSGOOD, JUN.,
2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Postage stamps and specimens of petrified wood for stamps. Old
issues of United States and South American stamps especially
desired.
J. R. BEDFORD,
5 Spencer Place, Fourth Avenue, New York City.
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Postmarks for minerals, Indian relics, or curiosities of any kind.
WILLIAM BRYANT,
171 Clermont Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
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Postage stamps, stamped envelopes, and postal cards, especially
with readers of YOUNG PEOPLE in foreign countries.
EDWIN T. COLE,
804 Mahantongo Street, Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
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Any natural product of Western New York for rice and cotton as
taken from the field, or for the moss found on trees in the
Southern States.
CLIFTON B. GATES,
Ellington, Chautauqua County, New York.
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Sea-shells, postage stamps, and curiosities.
PETER WELCH,
276 Bridge Street, Brooklyn, New York.
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Rare stamps or minerals for foreign coins.
SIDONIA STIEN,
125 East Sixty-ninth Street, New York City.
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Rare foreign and United States stamps for ocean curiosities and
Indian relics.
JOHN A. MUNO,
Lock Box 68, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois.
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United States War Department and foreign stamps for birds' eggs.
JOSEPH R. HASKIN,
Fort Preble, Portland, Maine.
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Fossils, gold, silver, and iron ore, and cocoons of the _Atticus
cecropia_, for minerals, coins, fossils, Indian relics, or skulls
of birds or animals.
FLETCHER M. NOE,
165 N. Ala. Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Twenty-five foreign stamps or minerals for fossils and minerals.
THOMAS W. GILBERT,
23 Park Row (Room 37), New York City.
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Danish stamps and Chinese coin for any other foreign stamps or
coin.
GEORGE C. CODDING,
Petaluma, Sonoma County, California.
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Postage stamps from Brazil, Hong-Kong, or Japan, for minerals.
E. G. LATHERS,
P. O. Box 29, Pelhamville, New York.
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OLIVE W. H.--We do not know. You would better write to some of our
exchanges, or to some dealer in stamps.
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ARTHUR N.--Write and ask your question of the correspondent herself. Her
address was given in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 53.
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YOUNG PEOPLE, Volume I., sent to you by mail, you must send forty-eight
cents to the publishers. The amount will be received in clean, unused
United States postage stamps of any denomination.
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J. M.--A translation of the hieroglyphs on the New York Obelisk is given
in the London _Athenæum_ of March 13, 1880, which you will find at any
of the large reading-rooms. The same translation is reprinted in a
volume entitled _The Obelisk and Freemasonry_, published by J. W.
Bouton, 706 Broadway, New York city.
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address.
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F. F.--We can not tell you what to buy for your mother's Christmas
present, for we do not know as well as you, who are near her, what kind
of a present would please her the best. But we would advise you to think
very carefully, and if you can remember any pretty thing she has
expressed a wish for, or any little comfort which you suspect she has
gone without in order that she might get something for you, try to give
her that. Do not spend your money for a trinket, but get something
pretty and useful at the same time, like a handsome work-basket or a
soft worsted breakfast shawl, and every time mamma uses it she will be
sure to remember her little girl's loving thoughtfulness much more
tenderly than if you give her vases or other parlor ornaments which will
be stood away on the mantel-piece.
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W. S. HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM L. BETTON, G. A. J., AND OTHERS.--You can get
a very good illustrated catalogue of postage stamps by sending
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HATTIE KERR.--If you keep your crabs well fed with bits of raw beef or
raw fish, never allowing them to get hungry, they will be more likely to
leave the other inhabitants of your aquarium in peace.
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HELEN E. V.--Parrakeets will eat all kinds of seeds. They like orange
seeds very much. They will also eat fruit of all kinds, and sometimes
will bite a bit of cracker like a parrot. You can also give them English
walnuts for variety. In Cuba large flocks of parrakeets, ninety or a
hundred birds together, often settle on the orange-trees, and make sad
havoc with the ripe fruit, which they tear to pieces to find the seeds.
They are especially fond of the Cuban sour orange, a fruit which is
rarely brought to this country, and large numbers of these beautiful
little birds may always be found around the wild orange-trees in the
Cuban forests.
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H. N.--The ribs of a canoe should lie parallel to the moulds.--A drawing
or design may be enlarged by using a pantograph. It requires, however,
some practice to make a neat drawing with one of these instruments.
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Favors are acknowledged from May and Fannie Fairlamb, Harry Woolcott,
Eugenia McGarrah, E. C. S., Anna Brown, Sadie D., Harry MacC., Mettie
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Ruggles, Hattie F. Holcroft, Jennie Hughes, L. M. and E. Smith, Eddie
Beeson, Fannie V. Cross, DuBois Carpenter, Tillie Strang, Fred, Mamie E.
Thornton, Lucia C. Daniels, Marie R., Walter P. Hiles, Gerald M. Bliss,
Lillie E. Brewster, George B. Donnelly, J. H. Shaw, Maggie Poindexter,
Lillian A. Atkins, J. F. W.
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Correct answers to puzzles are received from Annie M. W., Cal I. Forny,
C. H. McB., Howard B. Lent.
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PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
HALF-SQUARE--(_To Zelotes_).
To listen to. To consume. A preposition. In mineralogy.
MARK MARCY.
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No. 2.
RHOMBOID.
Across.--A wading bird. To prepare for publication. A tree. A metallic
vein.
Down.--A letter. A verb. A girl's name. Part of a window. An adverb. A
nickname. A letter.
ZELOTES.
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No. 3.
ENIGMA.
My first is in anger, but not in ire.
My second in stove, but not in fire.
My third is in dress, but not in cloak.
My fourth is in mist, but not in smoke.
My fifth is in earth, but not in soil.
My sixth is in puzzle, but not in foil.
My seventh is in lion, but not in beast.
My eighth is in festival, not in feast.
My ninth is in ocean, never at rest,
But not in the ships which toss on its breast.
Many have perished in seeking me,
And still I remain a mystery.
OWLET.
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No. 4.
TRIPLE ACROSTIC.
An artery. Circular. A craze. Primals--part of the body. Centrals--to
flow. Finals--a girl's name. Primals and finals combined, a fleet of war
vessels.
BOLUS.
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No. 5.
DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
A French heroine. A saint. A French statesman and orator. A Greek
orator. One of the nine Muses. A German poet. Primals and finals spell
the name of a famous Roman.
DAME DURDEN.
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No. 6.
EASY SQUARES.
1. First, a tribute. Second, to submit. Third, a sneering look. Fourth,
a musical instrument.
C. I. F.
2. First, a wild animal. Second, otherwise. Third, a continent. Fourth,
hindermost.
3. First, a means of cleanliness. Second, formerly. Third, exploits.
Fourth, a plague.
J. B.
4. First, a grain. Second, a metal. Third, a small rope. Fourth,
extremes.
EDITH.
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 56.
No. 1.
1. Virginia creeper. 2. Flag. 3. Sage. 4. Dock. 5. Cowslips. 6.
Egg-plant. 7. Pink. 8. Beech. 9. Yew. 10. Fir.
No. 2.
C O R S E
O R I E L
R I G I D
S E I N E
E L D E R
No. 3.
Charlemagne.
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WAITING MARGERY.
With a gay little watch that does not go,
So that the time she can always know--
For you never can be mistaken, I think,
When a watch or a clock doesn't stir a wink--
Never doubting that he'll he true,
Margery waits for Little Boy Blue.
Little Boy Blue walks in the lane,
Beside the tailor's Mary Jane,
With never a thought, when _she_ beguiles,
Of waiting Margery's patient smiles.
"For they always say men never are true,
And _I_ am a man," says Little Boy Blue.
THE HAPPY FAMILY.
Mr. Dickens and Mr. Dan!
Happier family never ran,
Rushing to gladden a mother's heart,
Than these two darlings, never apart.
Mr. Dan is the house police--
With might and main he keeps the peace;
While Mr. Dickens sits and purs,
Man-like, among his worshippers.
THE HAPPIEST FOLKS.
I think the dolls are the happiest folks--
Nobody plagues them with practical jokes;
They have a nice house, with a parlor-maid,
And the rent of it never has to be paid;
They wear their best clothes whenever they please,
And have nothing to do but to take their ease.
MOTHER AND CHILD.
CHILD SPEAKS.
"That mother in the picture
Never, never scolds;
All the day her little boy
In her arms she holds."
MOTHER ANSWERS.
"Don't you wish, my laddie,"
And the mother smiled,
"That you were as gentle
As that pictured child?"
BETTY'S ANSWER.
Write a letter, aunty,
Say you _know_ I'll come
To the children's party--
Think I'd stay at home?
Why, they'll have some candy,
And some strawberry ice,
Angel cake, I rather think--
Everything that's nice.
Say I'm surely coming--
They are so polite--
They might think I wouldn't
If you didn't write.