was so tame it would eat out of my hand, and drink out of a
tea-spoon. I fed it on raw meat, soaked bread, and worms, but it
ran away. I am twelve years old.
ELSIE B.
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I wish to exchange postage stamps with readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I
have also a large piece of wood, full of worm-holes, that came out
of the bottom of a large vessel that went over three thousand miles
on her first voyage, and was eaten by worms. If any boy would like
a piece of this wood, I will send it in return for some good
foreign stamps.
GEORGE H. ELDER,
Care of Kelsey & Suydam,
99 Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y.
* * * * *
I am nine years old. I would like to exchange postage stamps or
iron ore, for minerals, ocean curiosities, or Indian relics, with
any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.
G. C. WARNER,
Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn.
* * * * *
I have a collection of birds' eggs, and would like to exchange with
other collectors. I have also a collection of postmarks, and I will
give twenty (all different) for any egg not already in my
collection.
DE WITT AYRES, Penn Yan, Yates Co., N. Y.
* * * * *
I want to tell you what mamma gave me for my Christmas present. A
little while before Christmas she said she was tired of moving my
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE round from one place to another, so she
gathered them all up and put them away, as I thought. But
Christmas-eve they came back to me handsomely bound, and I find
them a great deal nicer to read. In looking through the book I find
a great many pieces I never noticed before. Mamma says I can take
it until I am fifteen, and have it bound every year. I am eleven
years old now, so then I will have five nice volumes.
I am beginning a collection of curiosities, and would like to
exchange small sea-shells or stones with any little boy or girl
for any curiosity, or for different kinds of moss.
JESSA PEARSON,
Xenia, Greene County, Ohio.
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PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.
I have received so many letters in answer to my request for
exchange that I can not possibly supply all demands immediately,
but will do so as soon as possible. I hope those who have been so
kind as to write to me will not think I have forgotten them.
ANNIE P. CARRIER.
* * * * *
I wish to inform correspondents who desire to exchange with me that
I have changed my address from New York to Brooklyn, as given
below. I will now exchange foreign and United States revenue stamps
and postmarks, for Indian curiosities.
GEORGE B. DONNELLY, 331 Hicks Street,
Corner of Atlantic Av., Brooklyn, L. I.
* * * * *
I have about one thousand postmarks, and a large collection of
minerals, coins, stamps, and curiosities, which I will exchange for
birds' eggs. All eggs must be in good condition and unbroken, as I
use fine steel borers to make the holes. I wish nothing but eggs in
exchange.
J. N. KRIEGSHABER, 490 Fifth Street,
Between Breckinridge and Kentucky,
Louisville, Ky.
* * * * *
In my letter printed in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 62 I intended to say that
I would exchange postmarks, not for other postmarks, but for stamps
and minerals. I regret that I made the mistake.
TEDDY SMITH, 641 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
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JACKSON, MICHIGAN.
I am a little girl ten years old. I have never been to school, but
I can read, and I could write till I got too nervous. I have been
sick for six years, and can not run around like other little girls,
but I am very happy, because everybody is very good to me. My uncle
John sends me YOUNG PEOPLE, and I have had it since the first
number.
I have three canary-birds, and two of them that are in one cage
are trying to build a nest. I have a lot of books and dolls. I did
have a kitten, but it had fits, and we sent it away. My papa wrote
this for me, because I have to lie in bed, and can not guide a
pen.
MAGGIE B.
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The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:
Postage and revenue stamps.
J. E. JOHNSON, JUN.,
Longdale, Alleghany County, Va.
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Stones of Maryland, for stones of any other State.
T. MORRIS BROWN,
199 Hoffman Street, Baltimore, Md.
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Indian arrow-heads, flint rock, and petrified wood, for postage
stamps and silver ore.
WALTER BUCHANAN,
Butteville, Marion County, Oregon.
* * * * *
A specimen of petrified cedar, for one of zinc ore.
WILLIAM E. CHASE,
Franklin, Essex County, N. J.
* * * * *
Foreign and rare United States postage stamps.
LEWIS G. PARK,
24 Arlington Street, Cambridge, Mass.
* * * * *
Peacock coal, for minerals, shells, or curiosities.
ANNA C. BRASTOW, Wilkesbarre, Penn.
* * * * *
Postmarks, for foreign and United States postage stamps (except
one, two, and three cent United States stamps), coins, birds' eggs,
or minerals.
LOUIS A. OSBORNE,
237 West Thirty-fourth Street, New York City.
* * * * *
Norwegian postage stamps, for other foreign stamps.
ANTON HIRSTENDAHL,
Stoughton, Dane County, Wis.
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Ocean curiosities, stones from Ireland, or Indian arrow-heads, for
foreign coins.
WINTER D. HUBER,
Westminster, Carroll County, Md.
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Foreign stamps and curiosities, for the same or for autographs.
FRANK OSBORN,
Care of Mrs. C. L. Osborn,
471 East Toun Street, Columbus, Ohio.
* * * * *
Stamps for shells, or for autographs of renowned men and women.
S. D. G.,
P. O. Box 1221, Plainfield, N. J.
* * * * *
Foreign and United States postage stamps.
WILLIE S. SMITH, P. O. Box 50,
Westminster, Carroll County, Md.
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Soil from Massachusetts, for soil of New York or Pennsylvania.
Camilla W. Mansur,
74 Columbia Street, Cambridgeport, Mass.
* * * * *
Twenty-five postmarks (no duplicates), for five foreign stamps.
Those of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island
especially desired.
KITTY REED,
3024 Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Birds collected in Vermont, for foreign or old issues of United
States postage stamps.
CLAYTON J. KINSLEY,
P. O. Box 225, Burlington, Vt.
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Ohio and other Western postmarks, for postmarks from the South; or
Italian and Bavarian stamps, for other foreign stamps.
MAURICE A. MCMILLAN,
Washington C. H., Fayette County, Ohio.
* * * * *
Postage stamps, for curiosities.
EDWARD H. DILLON,
217 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, L. I.
* * * * *
Birds' eggs, stamps, or minerals, for birds' eggs, sea-shells, or
curiosities, especially with correspondents in the Southern States
or west of the Mississippi. Lists of curiosities exchanged.
HARRY SPAULDING,
Albion, Orleans County, N. Y.
* * * * *
Five varieties of Turkish postage stamps, for any other rare
stamps.
NED PRATT,
2431 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
* * * * *
Specimens of wood from Ohio, showing the bark of the tree, for
similar specimens from any other State.
EDDIE WILLIAMS, P. O. Box 135,
Loveland, Clermont County, Ohio.
* * * * *
Postage stamps, for pieces of rare wood. Specimens should be
three-fourths of an inch thick, two inches wide, and two inches
long.
L. H. NELSON,
3804 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
* * * * *
Postage stamps and postmarks, for insects or curiosities.
EDDIE A. JONES,
29 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.
* * * * *
Indian arrow-heads, for cotton or rice as taken from the field, or
other curiosities.
WILLIE WILLIAMS,
Economy, Wayne County, Indiana.
* * * * *
Postmarks from the eastern portion of the United States, for others
from the West.
WILLIE F. DIX,
444 High Street, Newark, New Jersey.
* * * * *
A small specimen of copper ore, for an Indian arrow-head, or some
other Indian relic.
HARRY E. DIXON,
111 East Fifty-first Street, New York City.
* * * * *
A self-inking printing-press and one font of type, for a collection
of birds' eggs.
FRED CHENEY, 51 Fort Avenue,
Boston Highlands, Boston, Mass.
* * * * *
A triangular Cape of Good Hope stamp and other rare stamps, for
stamps, Indian relics, or minerals.
RUFUS L. SEWALL,
26 Brimmer Street, Boston, Mass.
* * * * *
Twenty-five postmarks of New Jersey and New York, for twenty-five
of any other State.
A. M. WOODRUFF,
645 High Street, Newark, N. J.
* * * * *
Stones and curiosities from Hot Springs, Arkansas, for Indian
relics, sea-weeds, or shells, stones from any State except
Tennessee and Arkansas, or curiosities of any kind.
WILLIAM H. HOWLAND,
140 Adams Street, Memphis, Tenn.
* * * * *
A piece of pure white coral, for minerals, ocean curiosities, lava
from a volcano, or choice shells; or some yellow and white sand
arranged in bottles, for a star-fish or a sea-horse.
SALLIE KELLEY,
Kleine St., East Walnut Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio.
* * * * *
Postage stamps and postmarks, for Indian relics, minerals, fossils,
or California curiosities.
JOE F. FOLSOM,
Bloomfield, Essex County, N. J.
* * * * *
Ten Michigan postmarks, for ten postmarks from other States.
HARRY W. QUIMBY,
777 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
* * * * *
Postage stamps. Jamaica stamps a specialty.
CHARLES H. ISRAELS,
Irving Institute, Tarrytown, N. Y.
* * * * *
Stamps and postmarks.
FRANK B. MYERS,
Ishpeming, Mich.
* * * * *
Minerals, for good foreign postage stamps.
CLINTON C. ANDREWS,
Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Missouri.
* * * * *
HARRY J.--Any mineral or any package containing minerals, shells, or
similar matter, not exceeding four pounds in weight, may be sent by mail
at the rate of one cent for each ounce. In exchanging stones from
different States, it would always be better to send some specimen of
interest in itself, and one which represents the character of some mine
or of celebrated ledges or quarries within the State limits. For
example, it would be much more interesting to have a specimen in your
collection labelled, "Marble from Vermont" or "Iron Ore from
Connecticut," than to have the same specimen simply labelled a stone
from either of those States. From Iowa, where you live, a specimen of
galenite from the lead mines would be interesting, or any mineral found
in abundance near your home.
* * * * *
A. J. GIBBS.--The first canal in the United States is supposed to have
been built in the Connecticut Valley to allow boats to pass around the
falls at South Hadley and around Turner's Falls at Montague. In
February, 1792, the Massachusetts Legislature passed an act
incorporating a company for the building of this canal, and operations
were soon after commenced at South Hadley. The engineer was Benjamin
Prescott, of Northampton. The Middlesex Canal, from Boston to Lowell,
was built a few years later, and also a portion of the Mohawk Valley
Canal. In 1797 six miles of the latter were completed, making a passage
around rapids on the Mohawk River for boats of fifteen tons.
The first canals were built by the ancients for purposes of irrigation,
but at a very early period they were also used as navigable channels.
The royal canal of Babylon, built about 600 B.C., is one of the earliest
mentioned in history. The Grand Canal of China, which is about 650 miles
long, was built during the eighth century. At the changes of level the
boats were dragged up inclined planes, and it was not until about 1480
that locks were invented by two Italian engineers. After this invention,
by which one of the greatest impediments to canal navigation was
removed, the construction of canals became general throughout Europe.
One of the largest enterprises of the kind was that undertaken by Peter
the Great during the first years of the eighteenth century: 1434 miles
of canals were built, connecting St. Petersburg with the Caspian Sea and
with inland districts.
The first canal was built in England in 1760, and at the present time
there are about 47,000 miles of canals in Great Britain.
* * * * *
Favors are acknowledged from Frankie L. Garbutt, F. M. Elliot, Albert H.
Hopkins, Josie Chesley, N. D. Sugden, A. H. Patterson, Gracie Mathews,
May Arnold, Willie Derr, Florence E. Lewis, Calvin Colton W., Henry J.
Nuhn.
* * * * *
Correct answers to puzzles have been sent by Harry H. Dickinson, Rebecca
Hedges, Martie H., Thomas M. Armstrong, Allie Maxwell, Hugh Pitcairn,
Will B. Shober, Grace B., William Harris, Walter P. Hiles, C. Wieland.
* * * * *
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
GEOGRAPHICAL HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.
A lake in Louisiana. A city in Northern Europe. A river in Mexico. A
city in Japan. A city in Germany. In Montreal. A river in Europe. A
river in Italy. A capital of one of the United States. A river in the
western part of North America. A river near the east coast of British
America. Centrals read downward spell the name of one of the divisions
of Germany.
FANNIE E. S.
* * * * *
No. 2.
ENIGMA.
First in ham, not in beef.
Second in rock, not in reef.
Third in fortune, not in fate.
Fourth in fish, not in bait.
Fifth in bed, not in cot.
The whole an animal never shot.
F. V.
* * * * *
No. 3.
NUMERICAL CHARADES.
1. I am composed of 12 letters.
My 1, 2, 3 is part of the body.
My 4, 5 is a river in Europe.
My 6, 7, 8 is a cooking utensil.
My 9 is a vowel.
My 10, 11, 12 is the generic name of certain animals.
My whole is an animal.
WILLIE L. K.
2. I am composed of 6 letters.
My 1, 2, 3 is a part of the head.
My 4,5,6 is something John Gilpin lost.
My whole is an insect.
3. I am composed of 9 letters.
I am an English bird, and may often be seen in the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
seeking my simple 6, 7, 8, 9.
4. I am composed of 7 letters.
My 1, 2, 3, 4 is part of a shoe.
My 5, 6, 7 is wrath.
My whole is a creature found in South America.
BEATRICE.
* * * * *
No. 4.
WORD SQUARES.
1. First, a beautiful mineral. Second, a tree. Third, a girl's name.
Fourth, a metal.
FRANK.
2. First, a girl's name. Second, to rend. Third, to accept. Fourth, a
character in mythology.
HALLA.
* * * * *
No. 5.
ENIGMA.
In corn, not in ear.
In horse, not in deer.
In stay, not in go.
In spry, not in slow.
In inn, not in house.
In rat, not in mouse.
In fly, not in dove.
My whole the synonym of love.
JAMES E. H.
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 63.
No. 1.
P E T A R D P E S T E R
E L I N O R E N E R V E
T I N G L E S E Q U I N
A N G O L A T R U A N T
R O L L E R E V I N C E
D R E A R Y R E N T E D
No. 2.
J
C U P
C A B I N
J U B I L E E
P I L O T
N E T
E
No. 3.
F la G
A lonz O
M arve L
E nde D
Fame, Gold.
No. 4.
Vulture.
No. 5.
I llinois
N ebraska
D elaware
I owa
A labama
N ew York
A rizona
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[Illustration]
THE TUMBLER TRICK.
This trick consists in balancing a match on the edge of a tumbler
containing water, in the position represented in our picture, and then
drinking the water without dropping the match.
Solution in our next.
IN SPITE OF THEMSELVES.
"To sleep! to sleep!" called December,
To the cheery young strawberry vines.
"Not a green leaf is left on the maple,
Nor the creeper that round it entwines;
And the song-birds have gone to the South-land,
And the last of the flowers is dead,
And it's time that all good little strawberry plants
Were fast, fast asleep in their bed."
"Who cares?" said they, saucily; "we don't,
Though all that you tell us be true.
We're as wide, wide awake as we can be,
And we won't go to bed, sir, for you."
"Oh, you won't!" and he summoned a snow-storm,
While he laughed with a merry "Ho! ho!"
And in spite of themselves soon those saucy young plants
Were under a blanket of snow.
MIRTHFUL MAGIC
BY G. B. BARTLETT
HOW TO PLACE AN EGG SO IT CAN NOT BE BROKEN WITH A TIN PAN.
Show a large, tin pan and a common egg, and allow the spectators to
handle and examine both to see that there is no deception about either.
Then let any one take the pan, and be ready to strike with all his
might. When he has tried in vain to guess how you can place the egg
where it can not be broken with the pan, stand it up in the corner of
the room, and of course it will be impossible for any one to hit it.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITHOUT WORK.
Draw several lines radiating from a central point, and let each player
choose a line and be sure to remember which it is. Each then places a
piece of money on his line, and you say, "Take particular notice of your
line and money, so that you will not forget either." Then move the
pieces of money about, taking care that not one piece remains on its
original line. Ask each one in turn, "Is that your line?" and of course
every one will say, "Yes." Afterward say to each, in the same order, "Is
that your money?" touching the piece that is now on the line belonging
to the person addressed. When all have answered these questions in the
negative, you calmly collect and pretend to pocket all the money, with
the quiet remark, "As you have all said that that was not _your_ money,
I think it must be mine."
* * * * *
Say to any person, "I will lay a wager to any amount that I have more
money in my pocket than you have." After an animated debate, and
exhibition of the contents of pockets, you say, "I have more money in my
pocket than any one, for none of you have any money in my pocket."
* * * * *
Say to the ladies, "A man can marry any woman he pleases." After the
long and indignant protest, calmly reply, "A man may marry any woman he
pleases, but the trouble is to find the woman that he does please."
* * * * *
=The Point of a Diamond.=--Some time ago a Mr. Tarrants executed some
writing on a small piece of glass with a diamond the point of which had
been ground a million times finer than that of a pin. This writing was
the Lord's Prayer, and the lines were so fine that they were quite
invisible to the naked eye. If the whole of the Old Testament were
written the same size, it would only occupy a space equal to that of a
thumb-nail. The magnifying power of the microscope necessary to enable
us to read this minute writing is so great that if it were possible to
put a small boy under the glass, he would look ten times taller than
Bunker Hill Monument, and his head would be the size of the dome of the
Capitol at Washington.
PUSSY AND THE SNOW.
Pussy:--born last summer--
Never saw the snow
Till this winter morning
Just an hour ago.
"Oh! what pretty lamb's-wool!"
Said she; when it began
To fall; "I'll go and play with it."
And out-of-doors she ran.
But back again, astonished,
In greatest haste came she.
"That is the queerest, coldest wool
That ever I did see!"
[Illustration: OUTSIDERS.
SMALL BOY (_who has been waked up by the music at an evening party_).
"They are just going down to Supper. Don't you smell the Ice-Cream and
Cake and things."]
[Illustration: UNNECESSARY REQUEST.
BROTHER ON SLED. "Don't push too quickly, Alice."]
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, February 1, 1881, by Various