Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 Part 7

PARKVILLE, LONG ISLAND.

Here is a recipe for pop-overs: Three doll's cups of flour; two of milk; one egg; one salt-spoonful of baking powder; half a salt-spoonful of salt. Bake in patty-pans fifteen minutes in a quick oven. Break open and b.u.t.ter, and eat while hot.

I like the engravings in YOUNG PEOPLE, especially "The Little Miser," and "Kitty, you can't have my Apple." I have a kitty named Netty.

EMMIE R.

I get HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE every week, and I think it is the best paper for boys and girls.

I am collecting postage stamps, and would like to exchange with any of the readers.

JOHN DOLUNE, 109 South St. Clair Street, Dayton, Ohio.

I am spending the summer here in the country, although I live in Cambridge. I would like to exchange birds' eggs and nests with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

GEORGE L. OSGOOD, Jun., P. O. Box 38, Dublin, New Hamps.h.i.+re.

I have a great variety of United States International Revenue stamps, and would like to exchange them for others.

FRANK LYNN, 1 Pemberton Square, Room No. 4, Boston, Ma.s.s.

Papa has taken YOUNG PEOPLE for me for several months, and I like it so much. I think "The Moral Pirates" is very interesting, only it is a great wonder that those boys do not get drowned. The story about Frank Austin was splendid, but it was not long enough.

I am eleven years old. I live one mile from town. My brother has a large farm here. I have some of the prettiest little ducks you ever saw, and the most playful little kitten in the world. Kitty will run up my back and go to sleep on my shoulder.

I would like to exchange flower seeds with some little girl. I have a pretty lily that is in bloom now. It is called lily-of-the-Nile.

JESSIE LEE, Lewisville, Lafayette County, Arkansas.

I am making a collection of birds' eggs, and would like to exchange with any of the correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE. I have eggs of the robin, cat-bird, bluebird, king-bird, brown thrush, orchard oriole, and of several kinds of sparrows.

AUGUST PILGER, 172 East One-hundred-and-thirteenth Street, New York City.

L. M. Fobes writes to us that by exchange with the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE he has added more than two hundred new postage stamps to his collection. If he wishes to obtain any more United States, German, English, or Mexican stamps, Theodore Dreyfus, 255 St. Mary's Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, a little boy nine years old, would be glad to exchange with him.

I have a very nice collection of insects, and would like to exchange with some one living in the South, or any other distant locality.

KITTIE WEAVER, Villa Park, Mankato, Minnesota.

S. E. THOMAS.--You can make a heated-air toy balloon with tissue-paper, a very light wire hoop with a cross piece, and a sponge. Cut your paper in shape like a lengthened quarter of orange peel, and after pasting the edges firmly together, joining them only at one end, paste the open end around the wire hoop. Soak the sponge with as much alcohol or turpentine as it will hold, and after fastening it securely to the cross piece of the hoop, light it, and the balloon will soon expand with the heated air, and rise. If you make the balloon of colored tissue-paper, and it rises while the sponge is still burning, the effect at night is very pretty. A bunch of tow might be used in place of a sponge.

SADIE MCB.--We think the address given by the correspondent you wish to exchange with is sufficient. Write, and you will probably receive an answer.

ED. S. K.--In YOUNG PEOPLE No. 23 you will find full directions for building a sloop-yacht.

CHARLES K.--The recipe for b.u.t.ter-scotch was in the Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE No. 37.

FORD M. G.--The specimen you send is a sphinx moth, of which there are several varieties in the United States.

F. W. B.--You can obtain the numbers of YOUNG PEOPLE you wish by sending one dollar and fourteen cents to the publishers.

BROWNIE.--A salt-water turtle feeds upon the tough stems of sea-weeds, and upon crustacea and very small mollusks, but it might eat bits of bread and meat, or insects.

GEORGE H. K.--We doubt if you could make a microscope which would be as cheap or as satisfactory as one already manufactured. Microscopes may be bought at all prices.

Favors are acknowledged from Mary C. Hodges, Clare A. Howe, Amy Piper, Mabel C. C., Nellie W. Edson, M. C. S., Carrie Taylor, Mart Seeds, Lidie B. D., George A. C., Thomas S., H. S. K., Margarets M. and W., Allie M. B., George Paul, Clara S. A., Angie and Anna W., C. Hegemin, Orrin D.

Bradford, Mattie Murphy, Josie Parcher, Bertie Jones, Bertha F. H., Charles A. H., E. I. R., Frank Boucher, Stella M. S., Mary E. Paine, Victoria Gregory.

Correct answers to puzzles are received from Wroton Kenny, A. H. Ellard, James C. Smith, Philip P. Cruger, Bertie Ba.s.sett, Daisy Balch, Harry C.

and Shelton H., C. M., E. A. Cartereau, L. M. Fobes, Mary C. Spaulding, H. M. P., f.a.n.n.y Squire, Willie Murphy, "Capt. Frank," R. H. King, Marion E. Norcross, G. Volckhausen, Gracie Kelley, Henry M. Western, Frank Merry, Jennie Edwards.

PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.