it together. We live near each other, and often go to the beach to
gather shells and mosses. In the spring we have a great variety of
wild flowers. I would like to exchange pressed wild flowers,
sea-mosses, and shells from the Pacific coast for a moss-agate, a
bunch of cotton just as it is picked with the seeds in it, or any
other curiosity from the Central or Southern States, or the
Atlantic coast.
CAROLINE BALDWIN, Santa Cruz, Cal.
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The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:
German postage stamps, for minerals, fossils, or ores.
P. C. HENNIGHAUSEN,
143 Sharp Street, Baltimore, Md.
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Foreign postage stamps, for Chinese and South American stamps, or
for coins.
KEARNY MASON,
2119 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo.
* * * * *
Twenty-five foreign postage stamps (no duplicates), for ten United
States department stamps.
W. W. BRADEN,
445 East One-hundred-and-eighteenth Street,
New York City.
* * * * *
Foreign postage stamps, for curiosities.
LEWIS PIERSON,
57 Third Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
* * * * *
Postage stamps, for minerals. Correspondents are requested to label
all specimens.
R. T. ANDREWS,
214 Clermont Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
* * * * *
Cowries, scallops, cockle-shells, Chinese coins, stamps, and
postmarks, for quartz crystals, gypsum, hematite, copper, lead, or
graphite. Correspondents will please label specimens.
E. V. SHEERAR,
Wellsville, Allegany County, N. Y.
* * * * *
Stamps, for minerals, ores, Indian relics, or old and rare American
coins.
JOHN E. HODGES,
153 South Paca Street, Baltimore, Md.
* * * * *
Stamps from Egypt, Iceland, Ceylon, St. Helena, Persia, Ecuador,
and other foreign countries, for United States stamps.
JOHN L. CASPAR,
P. O. Box 8, China Grove, Rowan County, N. C.
* * * * *
Stuffed birds.
HARRY GREENE,
8 Myrtle Street, Boston, Mass.
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Two Cape of Good Hope stamps, for two Mexican stamps.
EMMA K. GRIFFIN,
Fond du Lac, Wis.
* * * * *
A stone from Massachusetts or New Jersey, for one from any other
State except Missouri; soil of New Jersey, for soil of any other
State; or specimens of mica, for any kind of ore.
F. L. FOSTER,
Fairmount Avenue, Elizabeth, N. J.
* * * * *
Postmarks and stamps, for stamps.
WILLIAM M. WHITFIELD,
235 West Thirty-fourth Street, New York City.
* * * * *
Old issues of United States postage stamps and postmarks, for
foreign stamps.
EDITH L. SMITH,
Glenburn, Lackawanna County, Penn.
* * * * *
Foreign postage stamps, shells, and other curiosities, for others.
G. H. SMITH,
Care of Mr. J. B. Wright,
Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga.
* * * * *
Stones from Missouri, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania, for stones from
any Southern or Western State excepting Georgia, Illinois,
Colorado, and Minnesota.
FRED P. HALL,
238 Warren Street, Jersey City, N. J.
* * * * *
Rare Indian relics, for minerals and stamps.
NELLIE SUGDEN,
49 West Fifty-third Street, New York City.
* * * * *
United States and foreign postmarks, for stamps.
SAMUEL J. LUTZ,
Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio.
* * * * *
Twenty-five postmarks, for two foreign postage stamps.
FRANK RIGGS,
P. O. Box 107, Watseka, Iroquois County, Ill.
* * * * *
United States revenue stamps and postmarks, for foreign stamps; or
a stone from Kentucky, for one from any other State.
HARRY PULLIAM,
275 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky.
* * * * *
A printing outfit, for a scroll saw or a good printing-press.
FRANK RAWIE,
Canton, Stark County, Ohio.
* * * * *
Postage stamps.
STAFFORD R. SOUTHWICK,
131 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.
* * * * *
Foreign postage stamps and foreign and United States revenue
stamps, for old United States or rare foreign stamps.
BRYANT WILLARD,
Newport Barracks, Newport, Ky.
* * * * *
Fifteen Michigan postmarks and eight of other States, for one
Chinese postage stamp.
ARTHUR K. WILLYOUNG,
147 Park Street, Detroit, Mich.
* * * * *
Two specimens of California wood, for every set of twenty-five
postmarks.
H. M. H.,
60 West Rutland Square, Boston, Mass.
* * * * *
Postage stamps. Swedish and Danish stamps especially desired.
WILLARD FRANCIS,
258 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal.
* * * * *
Asbestos and United States internal revenue stamps, for fossil fern
and gold ore.
LYMAN NEWELL,
Slater National Bank, Pawtucket, R. I.
* * * * *
Sandwich Island or Canadian stamps, for other foreign stamps.
M. D. AUSTIN,
1199 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
* * * * *
Stamps of British Guinea, Newfoundland, France, Norway, and
Hong-Kong, for stamps of Honduras, Peru, Persia, Brazil, and
Mexico.
FRANK H. NICHOLS,
341 East Indiana Street, Chicago, Ill.
* * * * *
Minerals, forest woods, stamps, and sea-shells, for new specimens
of the same. Minerals preferred.
CHARLES R. FLETCHER,
144 Cambridge Street, East Cambridge, Mass.
* * * * *
Postmarks and foreign postage stamps.
LILLIE W. HOUSE,
85 Whitney Place, Buffalo, N. Y.
* * * * *
Postage stamps.
CHARLES UHLER,
Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Penn.
* * * * *
United States postmarks, for stamps.
EDDIE EARL,
P. O. Box 714, Leominster, Mass.
* * * * *
Ocean curiosities, for soil from any State excepting Pennsylvania
and New Jersey.
HARRY LEWIS, care of J. W. Barton,
Northwest Corner of Front and Market Streets,
Philadelphia, Penn.
* * * * *
Stones from the Great Lakes, for foreign postage stamps.
WAT H. T. MAYO,
Hague, Westmoreland County, Va.
* * * * *
Ten rare foreign stamps, for ten Brazilian stamps. No duplicates.
IKE HAMMOND and FRED CROSE,
Lock Box 152, Greencastle, Putnam Co., Ind.
* * * * *
Old United postage stamps, for foreign stamps, Indian arrow-heads,
or other curiosities.
ELBERT E. HURD,
Lempster, Sullivan County, N. H.
* * * * *
Foreign stamps, old United States copper one-cent and half-cent
coins, for foreign coins, postmarks, and curiosities.
CHARLES GRUNER,
79 Park Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
* * * * *
Soil from Massachusetts, for soil of Ohio.
EVERETT CRANE,
Weymouth, Norfolk County, Mass.
* * * * *
Foreign postage stamps, for minerals and Indian relics.
GARRY B. POST, care of George R. Post,
New Britain, Hartford County, Conn.
* * * * *
Minerals, for sea-shells, agates, and curiosities of all kinds; or
lichens, moss, pressed ferns and flowers from Illinois, for moss,
ferns, and flowers from other States and Canada.
MARY LOWRY,
Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ill.
* * * * *
Spar, fossils, stamps, and postmarks, for ocean curiosities. Thirty
varieties of foreign stamps, or twenty stamps and twelve foreign
postmarks, for a box of sea-shells and a star-fish.
OSCAR RAUCHFUSS,
Golconda, Pope County, Ill.
* * * * *
American copper coins.
ED SWEET,
Wellsville, Allegany County, N. Y.
* * * * *
Postage stamps, for stamps, curiosities, and Indian relics.
FRANCIS B. WHEATON,
55 Park Street, Providence, R. I.
* * * * *
Asbestos and mica, for foreign stamps, especially from Nova Scotia,
Prince Edward Island, or Newfoundland.
WILLIE BOGARDUS,
1455 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
* * * * *
A stone from Illinois, for a stone from any other State or
Territory.
BLYTHE HENDERSON,
101 Third Street, Peoria, Ill.
* * * * *
Foreign and United States War Department stamps, for rare and old
coins, a ten-cent piece of 1879, stamps, shells, copper or zinc
ore, or stones and soil from any State except Wisconsin.
CLARE B. BIRD,
Jefferson, Jefferson County, Wis.
* * * * *
United States postage stamps, for the same or foreign stamps.
CLINTON F. HICKS,
Pine River, Waushara County, Wis.
* * * * *
Twenty-five rare and old postmarks, for twelve foreign stamps.
BAKER BROS,
P. O. Box 5, Comstocks, N. Y.
* * * * *
Soil of Ohio, for that of any other State.
HARRY LAURIMORE,
Lock Box 6, Greenville, Darke County, Ohio.
* * * * *
CARRIE E.--The book you inquire about is not contained in the "Franklin
Square Library." The only answer possible to your other question was
given in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 15, February 10, 1880.
* * * * *
T. H. P.--The line, "Tall oaks from little acorns grow," occurs in a
poem entitled "The School-boy's Address," which is given in old Readers.
The following paragraph in reference to the authorship of this poem has
been kindly written by Mr. Benson J. Lossing, with whose name the
readers of YOUNG PEOPLE are familiar:
"'The School-boy's Address,' in Bingham's _Columbian Orator_,
beginning, 'You'd scarce expect one of my age,' was written by
David Everett, principal of the New Ipswich (New Hampshire)
Academy, in the winter of 1791, previous to his entrance to
Dartmouth College. It was written for a favorite pupil, Ephraim
Hartwell Farrer, and was spoken at a school exhibition at the
academy that same winter.
"At the centennial celebration of the founding of New Ipswich, in
1850, Mr. Farrer, then a white-haired man sixty-six years of age,
was called upon to respond to the toast, 'Rev. Stephen Farrer, the
first pastor of New Ipswich: The memory of the just is blessed.'
Mr. E. H. Farrer was a son of the venerable pastor. When he arose
to respond, his first words were,
"'You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage.'
"These words he had spoken just fifty-nine years before."
* * * * *
ALICE B.--You will find a description of a very simple way to make
snow-shoes in a letter from May C. T. in the Post-office Box of HARPER'S
YOUNG PEOPLE No. 65. The best snow-shoes are a light frame-work covered
with a netting of stout thongs, but these would be difficult for you to
obtain, and you could not make them yourself.
* * * * *
F. S. K.--The poet Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, on February
27, 1807. He studied at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine, graduating
in 1825. Nathaniel Hawthorne, John S. C. Abbott, and some others who
afterward became distinguished literary men, were his classmates. After
leaving college he spent several years in Europe, and on his return, in
1829, became Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College. In 1835
he again visited Europe, and one year later became Professor of Modern
Languages and Literature at Harvard University. He made his home in the
historic Cragie House, once Washington's head-quarters, which he soon
purchased. Longfellow resigned his position at Harvard in 1854, but
still continues to reside in the historic mansion in Cambridge. Honorary
degrees have been conferred upon him by the Universities of Oxford and
Edinburgh, and his name is dear to the heart of every American.
* * * * *
I. CHASE.--The letter from your Prince Edward Island correspondent
published in the Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE No. 62 probably
explains your trouble.
* * * * *
C. U.--A five-kreutzer German stamp is worth about two cents, United
States currency.
* * * * *
Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Jimmie F. Burns, Lila
Baker, A. E. Cressingham, Richard Owen C., C. D. Chipman, W. K.
Crithens, R. H. Davidson, Linda and Susie Egbert, Philip S. Gillis,
Jesse S. Godine, Carrie and George Hall, Frank H. H., Charles Jefferson,
Norman D. Lippincott, William A. Lewis, Andrew E. P., "Red Lion,"
"Starry Flag," Louis K. Sayre, "L. U. Stral," I. W. Trotter, "The Dawley
Boys," Eva J. Turner, Howard J. Van Doren, Bennie C. Woodward, Edith M.
Wetmore, J. Anthony Walker, Willie F. Woolard, "Young Solver."
* * * * *
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
ENIGMA.
My first in old, but not in new.
My second in toll, not in curfew.
My third in enemy, not in foe.
My fourth in pack, but not in stow.
My fifth in quarrel, not in fight.
My sixth in heavy, not in light.
I am renowned in ancient song
For something most absurdly long.
T. H.
* * * * *
No. 2.
NUMERICAL CHARADES.
1. I am a famous place in the Western part of the United States,
composed of 14 letters.
My 3, 7, 13, 5 is a twig.
My 7, 2, 14 is a trifle.
My 5, 2, 11, 8 is a small burrowing animal.
My 9, 4, 6, 12 is a curtain.
My 1, 10, 5 is a tropical vegetable.
WILLIAM A. L.
2. I am an English bird composed of 8 letters.
My 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is one of the cereals.
My 6, 7, 8 is a part of the body.
CARRIE E.
3. I am a flower composed of 6 letters.
My 2, 5, 1 is a verb.
My 3, 6, 4 is a boy's name.
W. I. T.
* * * * *
No. 3.
CHARADE.
My first is to be disordered in mind.
My second is a letter of the alphabet.
My third is an illuminating agent.
My fourth is a public conveyance.
My whole is found on the map of the Eastern Hemisphere.
WILLIE L. K.
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No. 4.
DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
An East Indian tree. Worthless. The ancient name of a country in Europe.
A fish. A river in Germany. Birds belonging to the thrush family.
Primals and finals spell the name of a country.
HUGH.
* * * * *
No. 5.
ENIGMA.
First in mend, not in patch.
Second in knob, not in latch.
Third in boat, not in raft.
Fourth in brig, not in craft.
Fifth in sail, not in mast.
Sixth in second, not in last.
My whole is a Southern city gay,
Upon the shore of a lovely bay.
C. P. M.
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 68.
No. 1.
D A C T Y L
A D O R E
C O Z Y
T R Y
Y E
L
No. 2.
C O N T R O V E R S Y
I N D E L I B L E
O M N I B U S
F A V O R
D E N
B
A R T
G U A V A
G A R N I S H
I N V E C T I V E
T H O U G H T L E S S
No. 3.
Leadville.
No. 4.
A Valentine.
No. 5.
Mango.
WIGGLES.
On the following page are a few of the best ideas of Wiggle No. 17,
given in No. 65. We hope that our young contributors whose Wiggles are
omitted will not be greatly disappointed at not seeing their names
published, as has been customary. More than five hundred answers to this
Wiggle were sent in, and to publish all the names would require more
than a column of the Post-office Box space. Therefore the editor has
decided that hereafter no names shall be published save those whose
Wiggles are used. Three "Wigglers"--Joe Ulmer, Ada Allen, and
O. M. W.--hit upon our artist's idea, and sent in correct answers to
Wiggle No. 17. If these three will send their full names and addresses
to the editor, they will hear of something pleasant from him. Will "B,"
who gave a correct answer to Wiggle No. 16, also send his or her name
and address?
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
SINGLE COPIES, 4 cents; ONE SUBSCRIPTION, one year, $1.50; FIVE
SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00--_payable in advance, postage free_.
The Volumes of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE commence with the first Number in
November of each year.
Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it
will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the
Number issued after the receipt of the order.
Remittances should be made by POST-OFFICE MONEY-ORDER OR DRAFT, to avoid
risk of loss.
HARPER & BROTHERS,
Franklin Square, N. Y.
[Illustration: SOME DRAWINGS OF WIGGLE No. 17, OUR ARTIST'S IDEA, AND
NEW WIGGLE, No. 18.--SEE PAGE 303.]
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, March 8, 1881, by Various