Harper's Young People, September 28, 1880 Part 7

RICHARD KIPP, 13 Grant Street, Newark, New Jersey.

I would like to exchange birds' eggs with some correspondent. I have eggs of the wild canary, wren, martin, robin, cat-bird, swallow, guinea-hen, quail, and woodp.e.c.k.e.r.

J. LEE MAHIN, Muscatine, Iowa.

I would like to exchange postage stamps with any one in the United States or Canada.

H. L. MCILVAIN, 120 North Fifth Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.

To any one who will send me twenty-five postmarks I will send by return mail a box of sea-sh.e.l.ls.

JAMES A. SNEDEKER, 60 Asylum Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

I am making a collection of steel pens, and would like to exchange with any correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE.

CARL REESE EALY, 22 North Shippen St., Lancaster, Pa.

I am collecting skulls and skeletons of birds, beasts, and reptiles, and if any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE have any which they wish to dispose of, they would be gratefully received by me.

In exchange for the same I will give foreign postage stamps, b.u.t.terflies, or bugs. If any know of places where the above-mentioned articles can be purchased, I would be pleased if they would let me know.

I. N. KRIEGSHABER, 490 Fifth Street, between Breckinridge and Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky.

HARRY E. F.--The letters S. P. Q. R. stand for _Senatus populusque Roma.n.u.s_, meaning the Senate and people of Rome.

OTTIE LE ROI.--Wild rabbits and hares change their coats with the changing season. This peculiarity is especially marked in the Alpine hares of Switzerland. In YOUNG PEOPLE No. 13, in the paper ent.i.tled "Hares, Wild and Tame," is a full description of the summer and winter costume of these little animals.

WILLIE H. S.--The army-worm varies considerably in its size and markings according to the locality in which it is found, but its general characteristics are sufficiently marked to distinguish it. Its length varies from one to one and three-quarter inches. Its color is gray, sometimes so dark as to appear nearly black. It usually has narrow yellow stripes along its back and sides, and a few short straggling hairs on its body. The moth of this destructive caterpillar is called _Leucania unipuncta_. It is a small rusty grayish-brown fellow, its wings peppered with black dots. It is a member of the extensive family of owlet moths, and may be seen fluttering about the lamps and gas jets any summer evening.

PAULINE M.--If you send eighty-one cents, accompanied by your full address, to the publishers, the numbers of YOUNG PEOPLE you require will be forwarded to you.

WILLIE F.--Directions for the construction of an ice-boat will be given in an early number of YOUNG PEOPLE.

"PIGEON."--The wisest thing you can do is to save your pennies until you can buy a pair of the pets you wish, and give up all idea of snaring wild ones.

Favors are acknowledged from A. S. Barrett, George H. Hitchc.o.c.k, Blanche M., Nellie B., Carrie M. Keyes, Bertha C., L. Blanche P., A. W. Graham, George L. Osgood, Flora Liddy, C. F. M., Joseph Taylor, Daisy G., Susie Mulholland.

Correct answers to puzzles are received from H. A. Bent, "Nellie Bly,"

Daisy Violet M., Clyde A. h.e.l.ler, Eddie A. Leet, K. T. W., Wroton Kenny, "Chiquot," C. T. Young, Edith Bidwell, Isabel and H. Jacobs, George Volckhausen.

PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

No. 1.

WORD SQUARES.

1. First, a city in Italy. Second, a river in Germany. Third, a river in the northern part of New England. Fourth, a river in France.

2. First, a small vessel. Second, to detest. Third, pursuit. Fourth, mult.i.tudes. Fifth, a curl.

WINIFRED.

No. 2.

UNITED DIAMONDS.

1. In Kentucky. A character in mythology. A time of repose. A p.r.o.noun.

In Montana.

2. In Alaska. A p.r.o.noun. A shelter. Eccentric. In Vermont. Centrals of diamonds read across give the name of a poisonous plant.

CLARENCE.

No. 3.

DOUBLE ENIGMA.