Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 Part 8

Ann A. N. is just my age, and I would like to tell her some more things that a birdie likes. There is a little seed called millet, which I get at the market in the heads as it grows, and the birdies love to pick out the little round seeds. A bit of cabbage leaf is a treat to them, and any one living in the country can give birds the long seed heads of the plantain, or the little satchel-like seeds of the pouch-weed. I sometimes give my birds a little hard-boiled egg, but one must be careful not to give enough of these things to make the bird too fat.

Tell Anna Wierum it would be better to put her cuttings in warm moist sand for a few days, until they throw out little white roots; then wrap each in a bit of florist's moss or cotton-wool, and put a bit of oiled paper around the roots. Very thin brown paper, oiled with b.u.t.ter or lard, will do, so it will not absorb moisture. Pack all carefully in a small pasteboard box, and tie it up instead of sealing it. A package tied, with no writing in it, goes cheaply through the mails as third-cla.s.s matter.

Will any correspondent tell me how to keep goldfish healthy in a globe?

GEORGIA G. S.

I would like to exchange rare foreign stamps. I have fifteen hundred in my collection. I would especially like to obtain new issues.

W. PAGE GARDNER, 16 Hanson Street, Boston, Ma.s.sachusetts.

I would like to exchange postmarks for birds' eggs with any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE. To any one who will send me ten varieties of birds' eggs, I will send twenty-five postmarks, or for five varieties, I will send twelve postmarks.

JAMES THOMPSON, Middlefield, Geauga County, Ohio.

Can any correspondent tell me where I can get a catalogue of birds' eggs? I am starting a collection of eggs, and would like to exchange an egg of a brown thrush for one of a meadow-lark.

MILTON D. CLOSE, Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio.

If any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE will send me twenty different foreign postage stamps, I will send by return mail a Chinese coin.

WILLIE B. GORDON, P. O. Box 116, Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

I would like to exchange birds' eggs with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. To any one who will send me a list, and the number of each kind he has for exchange, I will send my list in return.

FRED C. TODD, Milltown, New Brunswick.

I would like to exchange a little of the soil of Virginia for that of any of the Western States. I am twelve years old.

H. JACOB, Darlington Heights, Prince Edward County, Virginia.

I have received a letter from a correspondent desiring exchange, but there is no name or address. I think the postmark is Harrison, but am not sure. Please publish this, as I do not wish the writer to think it is my fault that no attention is paid to his letter.

WILLIAM WINSLOW, 74 De Soto Street, St. Paul, Minnesota.

I have a collection of postage stamps and a number of duplicates.

To any correspondent sending me twenty good stamps, I will send the same number in return.

Can any one tell me the price of silk-worm coc.o.o.ns?

PHILIP TYNG, 403 North Madison Street, Peoria, Illinois.

I take YOUNG PEOPLE. I am very much interested in the Post-office Box, because I like to read of the boys and girls who make collections. I am collecting postmarks and minerals, and I will gladly exchange a specimen of iron ore for any other mineral.

BENNIE C. GRAHAM, 165 West Goodale Street, Columbus, Ohio.

I would like to exchange United States and foreign coins with any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE.

WILLIAM F. SALTMARSH, 512 North New Jersey St., Indianapolis, Indiana.

I have been gathering autumn leaves, and preparing them for decorating lace curtains, picture-frames, and other things. They are mostly maple, as we have very few others here. I would like to send some to any little girl or boy in exchange for sea-sh.e.l.ls or other ocean treasures. To any one sending me an address I will send some leaves right away.

NELLIE S. G. VAUGHAN, Chazy, Clinton County, New York.

I have a cabinet in which I have a number of war relics. I also have an aquarium. I would like to exchange foreign and United States postmarks and stamps with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.

W. PAUL D. MOROSS, Care of C. A. Mora.s.s & Co., Chattanooga, Tennessee.

I have several kinds of Norwegian stamps, and if any stamp collector will send me some sh.e.l.ls, sea-weeds, or any such things, I will be very glad to send some of my stamps in return.

ELIZABETH KOREN, Decorah, Winnesheik County, Iowa.

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

CLIFFORD POTTS, 412 Walnut Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.

A little girl who is making an interesting collection of monograms would be very glad to exchange with any boy or girl. Please address

E. M., P. O. Box 1132, Plainfield, New Jersey.