U. S. or foreign postage stamps; or a genuine Japanese silver coin,
very rare, for a _Collectors' Directory_; or a rare silver coin of
Bogota, issued in 1853, for an international stamp album.
J. W. MILNES, P. O. Lock Box 19,
Bloomfield, Sonoma Co., Cal.
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Pieces of abylona from the Pacific Ocean or Chinese coins, for rare
U. S. or foreign postage stamps.
CHARLES S. MILNES, Lock Box 9,
Bloomfield, Sonoma Co., Cal.
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Two hundred and twenty-five postmarks, of which all are different,
and 135 are Michigan, for 150 foreign stamps, all different. Rare,
revenue, and common stamps, for bills, minerals, coins, relics, and
ores, stamps from Guatemala, Transvaal, Uruguay, and Ionian Isles;
three Cuban, two Mexican, or two Danish West Indian stamps, for a 7
or 90 cent War Department stamp or a Chinese stamp; five rare
stamps, for a good arrow-head. Please write before sending stamps.
Also the numbers of YOUNG PEOPLE between 52 and 71, for five
foreign stamps; and numbers 74 and 76, for 33.
TEDDY SMITH,
641 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
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_Louis Sinclair_, by Laurence Lancewood, crystallized flint that
will cut glass or wood, bark from Missouri, a sprout of persimmon,
a sprout of peony-flag, and of flowering-almond, for a pair of
gold-fish; also some of the above, for a bouquet of
everlasting-flowers. Write before exchanging.
FRANK BRYAN, Papinsville, Bates Co., Mo.
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A great basketful of pretty flints, fine white marble, granite,
potter's clay, and twenty carnelians, a few chalcedony, and in
another month a large supply of thirty kinds of flower seeds, for
ores, minerals, or anything suitable for a museum. Write address
plainly on each package, even if only a postal be sent.
ANNA and L. FAVRE,
Ontario, Story Co., Iowa.
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A large number of duplicate album cards to exchange with
collectors.
E. S. R.,
7 Joslyn Park, Rochester, N. Y.
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Soil from Louisiana, for flower seeds.
FRANK W. SHOTWELL,
192 Harmony St., New Orleans, La.
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A genuine Indian bow and two arrows, which were made by the
Chippewa Indians, who live north of here, for the largest
assortment of minerals or curiosities offered me. Correspondents
will please write soon.
HORACE MITCHELL, Duluth, Minn.
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Six foreign stamps, all different, for one of the following U. S.
stamps: 2, 3, 7, 10, 12 cent Department of State; 7, 10, 15 cent
Navy; 2 or 6 cent Executive; 2, 10, 12, 15 cent Justice; 7 or 90
cent War; or forty stamps for the $5, $10, $20 Department of State.
H. B. F., P. O. Drawer 184, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
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_Youth's Companion_ for 1880 and part of 1881 (unbound), for
Vol. I. of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. Send postal before sending YOUNG
PEOPLE. An old Mexican and a Venezuela stamp, for a U. S. half-cent
of any date. Some silk-worm eggs, on card-board, from Japan, for
half-cent or odd silver coins. A lot of Kansas and Western
postmarks, for department stamps.
"A READER OF YOUNG PEOPLE,"
P. O. Box 1341, Moline, Ill.
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Fifteen postmarks, for ten foreign stamps (no duplicates) or two
foreign coins of any date; a piece of soapstone from Kate's
Mountain, Wisconsin, for minerals, curiosities, stamps, coins, or
stones.
RALPH J. WOOD, Coldwater, Mich.
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One picture card, for one foreign stamp or three postmarks; a stone
from New York, for one from any other State or Territory.
FLORENCE POPE,
P. O. Box 60, Scottsville, Monroe Co., N. Y.
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Germany, France, Japan, Hong-Kong, and other rare stamps, for rare
stamps and curiosities of all kinds.
ROBERT FERGUSON,
890 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, L. I.
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A Dexter scroll-saw in good order, for a self-inking
printing-press, chase not less than 2 by 4 inches, and in good
working order. Please write before sending press, and describe it.
W. H. S., care James A. Guest,
Burlington, Iowa.
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A piece of petrified sea-bird, for Indian relics, Indian
arrow-heads, moss, plants, sea-shells, minerals, ores, pressed
ferns and flowers, stone and soil from any other State, coins,
woods, star-fish, papers, fossils, or Florida sea-beans; ten
foreign stamps, for soil and stone from any other State.
WHITMORE STEELE, care of Captain H. S. Steele,
Babylon, L. I.
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A 3-cent adhesive of 1851 and '61, a 3-cent envelope of 1853, or a
6-cent envelope of 1870, for rare foreign stamps.
GEORGIE C. WEISSERT,
193 Twelfth Street, Milwaukee, Wis.
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My entire museum (which contains 250 specimens), for a good
repeating rifle or a good bicycle. Write a postal to Professor
W. S. Ryland for information.
LAMAS H. PORTER,
Russellville, Logan Co., Ky.
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Stones from Ohio and Lake Erie, for the same from any other State,
lake, or river. Marble from Vermont, New York, Kentucky, or Italy,
for the same from any other State or country.
LYON CAUGHEY, Seville, Medina Co., Ohio.
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Florida moss and minerals, for things suitable for a museum; South
American and Florida shells, for minerals and curiosities.
GEORGE SCHULZE,
Box 42, Okawville, Washington Co., Ill.
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Three pieces of English money, dated 1722, 1747, and 1806, and a
silver coin of East India, dated 1841, for Indian relics. Write,
stating the relics you offer in exchange.
W. G. FLANAGAN,
Johnstown, Cambria Co., Penn.
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German, French, English, and Italian stamps, for stamps from Asia
or South America.
W. J. MURRAY, P. O. Box 91, Annapolis, Md.
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A pair of fine young bantams, for a collection of butterflies,
minerals, or Indian relics.
SYDNEY BROWN,
23 West Jersey St., Elizabeth, N. J.
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Foreign coins and stamps from India and Denmark, for 24 and 90 cent
of any issue, and 30-cent of any issue except present one.
N. C. TWINING, JUN., Batavia, Kane Co., Ill.
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Stones from Pennsylvania, for stones from any other part of the
world.
NATTIE PRATT,
Glen Mills, Delaware Co., Penn.
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A shell, a stone from Indiana, petrified wood, a petrified wasps'
nest, and other curiosities, for curiosities.
ALBERT BREWER,
Danville, Hendricks Co., Ind.
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Chinese bark from California, and a hedge that George Washington
planted at Mount Vernon, for Indian relics.
CLARENCE BREWER,
P. O. Box 222, Danville, Ind.
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I have a fine collection of silk cocoons, and would like to
exchange some for foreign stamps from any country except France,
Germany, or Italy.
ALBERTO DAL MOLIN, care Giuseppe dal Molin,
Verona, Italy.
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Twenty stamps, for an Indian arrow-head or any foreign coin except
Canadian; forty stamps, for a U. S. half-cent. No duplicate stamps
given.
JOANNA MAY WYLIE,
Prairie Centre, Lasalle Co., Ill.
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Ten War Department stamps, for ten from Jamaica.
CHARLES WILLIAMSON,
88 East Third St., Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Two books, both nearly new--_Lucy Woodville's Temptation_ and
_Reuben Inch_--to any one who will send me the back numbers of _St.
Nicholas_ for 1881 and the successive numbers as soon as they shall
have been read. Please write before exchanging.
JESSIE LEE RENO, Marengo, Iowa.
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Fifteen foreign stamps and ten postmarks, for three alligator's
teeth.
H. S. WHITTEMORE,
Box 79, Needham, Mass.
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A stone from Massachusetts and one from New Hampshire, for
curiosities.
FANNIE METCALF,
61 Vernon St., Lowell, Mass.
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[_For other exchanges, see third page of cover._]
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At the request of a correspondent we publish this sensible extract from
an exchange, in the hope that our young people will follow its excellent
advice:
THE FACE.
It is a mistake to believe that a good complexion depends upon the use
of such and such cosmetics. It really depends upon digestion, which
itself depends upon our mode of life. Persons who rise early and go to
bed regularly at ten, who take plenty of air and exercise, eat with
moderation at regular hours, having their meals at intervals long enough
for the digestion of one to be thoroughly accomplished before they begin
the next--these persons are sure to digest well, and in consequence have
clear, healthy complexions, which will require no other cosmetics but
plenty of soft water and good toilet soap. The hygiene of the eyes is
very simple. For them, as well as for the complexion, good digestion is
equally necessary; more so, for no cosmetic could remove the yellow
tinge which biliousness imparts to them, and if some mysterious pencils
can supply the insufficient shadow of rare eyelashes, good health alone
can give them that brightness which is their principal beauty. Never
read in bed or in a reclining attitude; it provokes a tension of the
optic nerve very fatiguing to the eyesight. Bathe your eyes daily in
salt water; not salt enough, though, to cause a smarting sensation.
Nothing is more strengthening; and we have known several persons who,
after using this simple tonic for a few weeks, had put aside the
spectacles they had used for years, and did not resume them, continuing,
of course, the oft-repeated daily use of salt water. Never force your
eyesight to read or work in insufficient or too glaring light. Reading
with the sun upon one's book is mortally injurious to the eyes.
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E. L. Douglas, Whitby, Ontario, Canada, wishes the address of the person
who sent him a box containing coral, and marked K. M. S.
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J. H. C.--By Chinese stamps are meant Hong-Kong stamps issued by the
British government.
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C. E. C. Diffenderfer withdraws from the exchange list.
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WROTON M. KENNEY.--There is no better book for the reading of an
intelligent lad who wants to know how his country is governed than
_Politics for Young Americans_, by Charles Nordhoff, published by Harper
& Brothers. The price is 75 cents.
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JENNIE AND JULIA.--It is difficult to assign you subjects for
compositions when we do not know your grade of advancement. If you wish
to excel, read good books, choose easy topics, about which you know
something, and write as though you were telling a story to a child or
talking to your friends.
* * * * *
Correct answers to puzzles have been received from "Parton," Theresa
Morro, C. Burr, Alfred R. Meeker, "North Star," "_Unknown_," Flora A.,
"Dandy," "Lodestar," Annie Gail, Wroton M. Kenney, G. Volckhausen,
"Venus," Abel Foster, "Jersey City," William Wolff, Jessie Newton, J. H.
Jenny.
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PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
PYRAMID.
Across.--1. A letter. 2. Jurisprudence. 3. Surfeited. 4. That which
fades from view.
Down.--1. A letter. 2. A prefix. 3. A resinous substance. 4. Tardy. 5.
To harry. 6. A prefix. 7. A letter.
AEROLITE.
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No. 2.
NUMERICAL ENIGMA.--(_To North Star_).
My 2, 3, 5, 6 is a cobbler's tool.
My 1, 7, 8, 9 is a past participle.
My 6, 9, 4 is a boy's nickname.
My whole is an English statesman.
LODESTAR.
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No. 3.
GEOGRAPHICAL WORD SQUARE.
A noted city in Arabia. A gulf east of Africa. A river in Russia. A
country in Asia.
WROTON M. KENNEY.
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No. 4.
ENIGMA.
In apple, not in cherry.
In joyful, not in merry.
In riddle, not in guess.
In mixture, not in mess.
In pleasure, not in pain.
In miller, not in grain.
In Harper's, not in YOUNG PEOPLE.
In church, but not in steeple.
In garden, not in bower.
My whole's a sweet and modest flower.
M. L. EDGERLEY.
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 93.
No. 1.
Arm-chair.
No, 2.
B
F I D
F A C E S
B I C Y C L E
D E C A Y
S L Y
E
No. 3.
Freight-car.
No. 4.
Vanderbilt.
No. 5.
W Y O M I N G
S A O N E
I N N
T
T A R
S I N A I
Y U C A T A N
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A personation, on page 656.--Tooth.
[Illustration: BLACKBERRIES.]
A (RIVER IN IDAHO) STORY.
BY C. E. M.
One fine day a friend of mine named--(two towns in Maine) suggested to
me that we should take advantage of the--(mountain in Alaska) by going
to drive.
We trotted slowly past the--(town in Kentucky), where an exciting game
of--(town in Wisconsin) was going on, and after passing through
the--(town in Vermont) of the town, were soon enjoying the refreshing
coolness of the woods.
Suddenly the horse gave a--(point on the coast of England), and (city in
West Virginia) in the narrow road, bordered by high--(strait in British
America), the carriage overturned, and we were both thrown out.
Fortunately this did not prove a serious--(cape in Australia), for we
were but slightly bruised, and the horse made no attempt to run.
On looking about to discover a--(bay in Ireland) to our steed's fright,
strange enough in such an unfrequented (lake in Canada) spot, I suddenly
perceived in the middle of the road a large--(sea of Europe) (river in
Idaho), with (sea of Asia) spots.
While--(town in Maine) was trying to right the buggy, I cautiously
advanced, and seizing a--(city in Arkansas), hurled it with all my force
at the (river in Idaho).
My aim did not prove--(bay in Africa), and the animal's head was smashed
to--(river in Australia).
"(City in Arizona), (city in North Carolina)!" cried my friend.
"Hereafter, in any such--(bay in Australia), I shall rely on you
to--(river in Austria) me."
The coast being now once more--(cape in Ireland), we finished our drive
in--(river in British America), without further excitement than that
caused by a--(cape in Newfoundland) with a team which tried to pass us.
I for one was heartily glad to come in sight of the--(city in Germany)
of our little town; and after a joyful--(island in the Indian Ocean)
with my family, was quite ready to say--(cape in Greenland) to--(town in
Maine), notwithstanding his--(cape in Washington Territory) on the
subject of my bravery.
THE PEA-NUT.
The pea-nut is the fruit of a plant common in warm countries. It is
sometimes called the ground-pea and ground or earth nut, and in the
Southern States the goober or goober-nut. Still another name for it is
pindal or pindar, and in Western Africa it is called mandubi. The plant
is a trailing vine, with small yellow flowers. After the flowers fall,
the flower stem grows longer, bends downward, and the pod on the end
forces itself into the ground, where it ripens.
Pea-nuts are raised in immense quantities on the west coast of Africa,
in South America, and in the Southern United States. The vines are dug
with pronged hoes or forks, dried for a few days, and then stacked for
two weeks to cure. The pods are picked by hand from the vines, cleaned
in a fanning mill, and sometimes bleached with sulphur, and packed in
bags for market. Pea-nuts are sometimes eaten raw, but usually roasted
or baked. In Africa and South America they form one of the chief
articles of food. Large quantities of them are made into an oil much
like olive-oil, and which is used in the same way. It is also used in
the manufacture of soap. A bushel of pea-nuts, when pressed cold, will
make a gallon of oil. If heat is used, more oil is made, but it is not
so good. In Spain, pea-nuts are ground and mixed with chocolate. Pea-nut
vines make good food for cattle.
The pea-nut gets its name from the shape of its pod, which is like that
of the pea.--_Young Folks' Cyclopædia_.
[Illustration: MR. PIG. "Humph! now I can take a little rest."]
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, August 30, 1881, by Various