acknowledge the little packages that I have had from you since I
wrote before. We still keep hoping that we will get the
school-house in time, and in the mean while we keep on with the
Sunday afternoon school in the dining-room. How much I would like
you all to be here and help us teach them! When they get very
sleepy, my sister wakes them up by letting them sing. Since I wrote
I have had packages from Miss Nellie J. Parker, 748 Bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Willie Olmstead, Cleveland. Ohio; Mrs. Nettie
Birkitt, Winnebago, Ill.; Frank Butzow, Martha Butzow, Mary Butzow,
Emma Butzow, Watseka, Ill.; Gracie Macomber, Grand Isle, Vt.;
Nellie and Samuel Willets, Old Westbury, Long Island; Georgie
Hitchcock, Champlain, N. Y.; Mrs. C. B. Keese, Asa Keese, David
Keese, Ed. Bukan, Turner's Junction, Ill.; Carroll P. Wilson,
Troy, Tennessee; David Shipman, 29 Clinton St., Brooklyn; Miss Mary
O'Neil, Rochester, N. Y.; Hubert D. Richardson, Box 492, Nashua,
N. H.; Glenn Woolfenden, Neosho, Newton Co., Mo.; Alberta Ulman,
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Fanny Stains, Adrian, Mich.; Martin
C. Longstreth, 500 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.; Grace and
Louisa Todd, Meriden, Conn.; Louise Keney, Salina City, Cal.;
Charley Ungen, Eaton, Ohio; Elmer Wallace, Elk Point, Dakota;
Nellie Ritz Burns, Lewistown. The State was not written on your
postal, my dear Nellie, so I could not write to you, as I wished.
With many thanks to you all from myself and family, Uncle Pete, and
the whole Sunday-school, I am very truly your grateful friend,
MRS. RICHARDSON.
The members of the Natural History Society will be glad to learn that
Mrs. Richardson will organize the Woodside branch, and send reports from
time to time. Her own family and her scholars will form the branch,
under her charge.
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HOLTON, KANSAS.
The Holton branch of the Natural History Society met for the first
time on July 26. There were but few members. George S. Linscott was
elected president. I am glad the society has been organized, as it
will promote an interest in nature among the children of this town.
We have a good book that we intend to use at the meetings of the
club. There are three or four boys and girls here who take YOUNG
PEOPLE, but who are only nine years old. As yet none of our club
have discovered any facts worth reporting. We will meet every two
weeks, and I will report the doings of this society regularly once
a month.
E. S. BECK, Secretary.
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The following exchanges are offered by correspondents:
One stamp from each of the following countries, for a triangular
Cape of Good Hope stamp and a Straits Settlement stamp: Denmark,
Austria, Switzerland, Canada, Holland, Brazil, Belgium, Hungary,
England, France, Germany, and Bavaria.
CARTER COLQUITT,
Walton House, Clayton, N. Y.
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Stamps from Germany, England, Canada, Bermuda, island of Cuba, and
U. S. Revenue stamps, for stamps from any other nation. Stamps from
Mexico especially desirable.
E. E. HIDE,
Allegany Co., Belmont, N. Y.
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I would like to exchange 2-cent (brown) issue of 1871, and 5, 6,
10, and 30 cent U. S. stamps, and 1 and 2-1/2 penny English stamps.
FERD B. HESSE,
236 South Second St., Brooklyn, E. D.
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A newspaper published at Natal with news of the war there, for five
specimens of minerals, to weigh about three ounces each.
SAMMIE RISIEN,
Groesbeck, Limestone Co., Texas.
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E. H. Randolph wishes to be addressed during the summer at 13 and 15
Park Row, New York City.
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I live in the country, and two of my cousins are visiting us this
summer. Papa takes HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE this year for my brother.
I would like to exchange a stone and a little soil from New York,
for the same from any other State or Territory; and also some
everlasting-flowers that grow here, for pressed leaves, ferns, or
flowers from any place in the United States. Correspondents will
please label what they send, and be sure to write their address in
full so I will know where they come from. Will they please inform
me if they receive what I send, and wrap their packages securely?
SARABELLE BAYLES,
West Kortright, Delaware Co., N. Y.
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Minerals, for minerals, ores, and other curiosities.
M. L. E., 51 Spencer St., Albany, N. Y.
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Stones and soil from California, for stamps, coins, or sea-shells.
E. T. WHEELER, Berkeley, Cal.
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A card printer wishes a pair of good French fencing foils, for a
font of script type.
ARTHUR POOL, Earlville, Ill.
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Stamps from Cuba, Belgium, and Barbadoes, and other rare stamps,
for a three-cornered Cape of Good Hope; or other foreign stamps,
for ore or any kind of curiosities.
GEORGE H. ELDER,
99 Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D.
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_Golden Days_, for HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. Have all the first
volume, except between 7, and 23, and 31. Wish HARPER'S YOUNG
PEOPLE between 20 and 40, and 41 and 53; U. S. and other stamps,
for curiosities and Cape of Good Hope stamps.
J. H. TODD,
Box 225, Oakland, California.
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A 2-cent U. S. Internal Revenue stamp, for any foreign stamp,
except from Canada. England, Denmark, France, Austria, Italy, and
Germany. Five U. S. postmarks, for any foreign stamp, except from
the above-named countries. Will receive offers for a New York State
coin of 1863, and for an eagle cent of 1857.
ROSIE BALL,
7 Sycamore St., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Rare U. S. stamps, newspaper stamps of Austria, a South German
state stamp, and rare stamps of Italy, Spain, and Brazil, also an
Agricultural Department stamp, for stamps from Spain, which are an
earlier issue than 1870, or 1-penny Bahamas 1859, or 10, 12, 15, 30
cent Post-office Department, U. S.
CHARLES WARREN, Box 54, Plymouth, Mass.
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A fret-saw, designs, saws, and all complete, for a printing-press
and materials, autographs of eminent persons, or a microscope.
Stones from Madagascar, U. S., and foreign postmarks, for books,
coins, minerals, stamps, ocean curiosities, or Indian relics.
ALBERT E. DWELLE, McPherson, Kan.
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A piece of oak cut by a soldier friend from the prow of the
iron-clad _Merrimac_; a piece of olive-wood from Jerusalem, and a
piece of asbestos, for a genuine Indian bow and arrows. Please
write to arrange exchange.
F. W. GLASIER, Adams, Mass.
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White coral, curious rocks from Crève-Coeur Lake, shells from the
Pacific Ocean, quartz crystals, for books of all kinds on
mineralogy.
"MINERALOGIST," 903 Cardinal Avenue,
West St. Louis Station, Mo.
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Sea-shells and other ocean curiosities, for Indian curiosities.
C. PERCY RUSSELL, Deal Beach, N. J.
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Postmarks and rare stamps, for curiosities.
MISS FRANKIE PRATT, Keokuk, Iowa.
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Hard stamps and postmarks, etc., for department stamps of all
kinds, stamps from Africa, Asia, Canada, South and Central America,
Cape of Good Hope triangular especially desired, or curiosities of
any kind, wood from historic trees, etc.
F. S. MILLER, Westfield, N. J.
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Five foreign stamps, for one from Asia or Africa (no duplicates
given or taken).
E. BIDWELL,
Box 584, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
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Specimens of red granite, antimony as it comes from the mine,
Spanish fivepenny and eleven pence values, old English pennies and
halfpennies, and other coins, for foreign coins or old American
cents coined before 1815, or nickel cent with small eagle 1856, or
two-cent pieces 1872 and 1873 if in good condition, or U. S.
half-dimes 1794-1805. Please write before sending any coins and
arrange exchange.
ABNER H. GRAHAM, P. O. Box 22,
Milltown, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick.
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Ten postmarks (no duplicates), four U. S. postage stamps, all
different, and one German postage stamp, for one triangular Cape of
Good Hope stamp.
RAY EDMISTON,
Minier, Tazewell Co., Ill.
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Five or six pounds of good type, leads, and copper cuts to exchange
for Indian relics, minerals, fossils, skulls, curiosities, shells,
and old coin.
FLETCHER M. NOE,
130 E. N. York St., Indianapolis, Ind.
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A stamp of Hong-Kong, Brazil, and Mexico, for one three-cornered
stamp of the Cape of Good Hope; twenty foreign stamps (no
duplicates), for a stamp of Egypt, Japan, Peru, and Iceland.
JAMES H. ROBINSON,
431 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Stamps, for stamps. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Hong-Kong
especially desired.
JAMES HUGH,
1710 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal.
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Indian arrow-heads picked up near the spot where General G. A.
Custer fell; also some of the bayonets from the guns used in the
battle of Bull Run, for anything suitable for a museum. Please
write before sending.
H. E. RALD,
Care of Mr. Collin,
Rye Beach Hotel, Rye, N. Y.
* * * * *
Three-dollar printing-press with type, for a scroll-saw or
something useful.
WALTER J. LEE,
357 East Fifty-third St., New York City.
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A good microscope, for any of the following U. S. coins: Half-cents
of 1796, 1831, '36, '40 to '49, inclusive, cents of 1799 and 1804,
or a quarter-dollar of 1823 or 1827. Exchangers will please write
before sending coins.
VANCE S. SHOBER, Cumberland, Md.
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[_For other exchanges, see third page of cover._]
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GEORGE L. D.--A drop of camphor or of chloroform will kill a moth or
butterfly painlessly, and you can then fasten it to a card; to preserve
them from dust, it is best to keep your specimens in a glass case.
* * * * *
R. L. H.--The worm you send was so crushed in the mail that it could not
be identified, but it is not a parasite which usually infests rabbits.
To free your rabbits from vermin, wash them with a strong infusion of
carbolic soap.
* * * * *
HALLIE J. PERKINS, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA.--In forming your Natural History
Society you may include any friends you choose. Whether or not they are
subscribers to YOUNG PEOPLE makes no difference. You will find it a good
plan to read the correspondence in YOUNG PEOPLE at your meetings. Be
sure to send your reports.
* * * * *
H. F. L.--To have beautiful autumn leaves you must take pains to gather
perfect ones, of rich colors and pretty shapes. You may preserve them by
passing over the freshly gathered leaves a warm iron, on which you have
rubbed bees-wax, or you may press the leaves between the pages of an old
book, and when dry, coat them with very thin varnish, put on with a soft
camel's-hair brush. The secret of pressing flowers and ferns
successfully is in laying them immediately in a dark place under a
weight, and changing the papers over them as these become moist.
* * * * *
Fred Gutyalin, 3 East Forty-seventh Street, New York City, withdraws
from exchange list.
* * * * *
Daisy Rollins's address is Post-office Box 186, Columbia, Missouri, not
Columbus, as published. Write to her until September 13.
* * * * *
Some of our correspondents have sent such silly _noms de plume_ in
answer to puzzles that we have really felt ashamed to print them. In two
instances the names sent were inadmissible. Please select sensible
fictitious names when you do not desire your own to appear.
* * * * *
Correct answers to puzzles have been received from "Paxton," "Will O.
Tree." "_Unknown_," E. Pearl Lisk, John H. Busch, H. Elkena, "Comet,"
A. A. Beebe, Alice M. Walther, Annetta Jackson, Lee Marks, "School-Boy,"
Willie J. Baldwin, Eva J. Ward, H. N. Pleis, Jemima Beeston.
* * * * *
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
THREE EASY WORD SQUARES.
1.--1. Appertaining to kings. 2. To cut off. 3. Donated. 4. A skilled
person. 5. Slow time in music.
2.--1. To stop. 2. An artist's picture rest. 3. Out of the true course.
4. An old-fashioned vehicle. 5. A girl's name.
H. D.
3.--1. Sour. 2. A collection of laws. 3. Unemployed. 4. Far below the
surface.
F. A. H.
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No. 2.
ACROSTIC--(_To Cal I. Forney_).
Place the names of four animals in such order that their initial and
final letters read downward will spell the names of two others.
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No. 3.
BEHEADINGS.
Behead to discourse, and have a movement of the arm; again, and have
either of two.
Behead a fraud, and have warmth; again, and have to take food.
COUNT NO ACCOUNT.
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No. 4.
ENIGMA.
My first is in forest, but not in field.
My second's in breastplate, not in shield.
My third is in English, not in Dutch.
My fourth is in little, not in much.
My fifth is in inn, not in hotel.
My sixth is in scream, and not in yell.
My seventh's in blacksmith, not in miller.
My whole is a massive pointed pillar.
MAURICE E. W.
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 92.
No. 1.
Dandelion.
No. 2.
L
C A N
C A N E D
L A N T E R N
N E E D Y
D R Y
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No. 3.
1. Bowl. 2. Tart.
No. 4.
1. Pot. 2. Spar. 3. Are. 4. Brag.
No. 5.
1. Birds of a feather flock together.
2. A watched pot never boils.
No. 6.
1. A soap-bubble. 2. A walnut.
No. 7.
A peach.
[Illustration: SOME DRAWINGS OF WIGGLE No. 20, OUR ARTIST'S IDEA, AND
NEW WIGGLE, No. 21.]
WIGGLES.
Although "Wiggles" have formed a feature of YOUNG PEOPLE from the
beginning, and have excited a very general interest amongst our youthful
artists, many of our correspondents write that they do not understand
them. For the benefit of these we will explain that Wiggles, sometimes
called "recondite forms," are lines forming portions of the outlines of
pictures. New Wiggle No. 21 is one of these lines, and it forms part of
the outline of a picture already drawn by "our artist." The object of
those who attempt to solve the Wiggle problem should be to draw a
picture containing this line. In looking over the Wiggles on this page
you will see that Bessie R. Hull had very nearly the same idea of a
picture that our artist had when he drew Wiggle No. 20. We have room to
publish only a few of the hundreds of ideas of each Wiggle that are sent
to us, and there is no regular time fixed for their publication; but
those that are drawn with the greatest care, and sent in the earliest,
stand the best chance of being published. Will Bessie R. Hull please
send us her full address?
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, August 23, 1881, by Various