The prizes have been ordered, and will be forwarded as soon as ready.


Questions and Answers.

Frank Cope asks us to name an arithmetic well adapted to the needs of one who is compelled to study without an instructor. Good ones, for elementary study, are Fish's No. 1, 30 cents, and Fish's No. 2, 60 cents, to be had from the American Book Company, Chicago; or, if an advanced book is wanted, Harper's Advanced Arithmetic, $1.20, Harper & Brothers, New York. Are you interested in plants and flowers? M. S. Newman, 111 Avenue B, New York, wants to hear from you if you are. Wyatt and Peyser, 82 Lexington Avenue, New York, publishers of The Comet, a clever amateur paper, want literary contributions from amateurs.


The Whittier Library Chapter, A. L. Kuhn, 615 Ninth Street, Milwaukee, Wis., seeks members, both those residing in and out of Milwaukee. Address as above. It is a delightful Chapter to belong to. A Lady asks how to get ready for a "Looking Backward" dance. Can anyone tell her? Paul H. Knoelk, 627 Greenfield Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis., wants to form a literary Chapter, with corresponding members. He or any others may write to Arthur J. Johnston, Box 136, Dartmouth, N. S. The latter wants to join a corresponding Chapter, which, we may inform a third, a Lady who asks, is an organization kept together by correspondence, its members living in many States. The best combination is, we think, a Chapter having both local and absent members. We shall be glad to hear of the progress of the Lancelot Chapter, of Newtonville, Mass. Maximo Gomez is commander-in-chief of the Cuban forces. He has no naval force, and a land force variously estimated at from 25,000 to 50,000 men, the number being constantly added to. Jno. Pohland, Ahnapee, Wis., will send sketches to any amateur paper that applies to him for them. He wants samples.