I would like to exchange a few Hot Springs diamonds, and also some seeds of the cotton-plant, for ocean curiosities, shells, or Indian relics. My pa procured these diamonds at the Hot Springs of Arkansas last summer.
Pa has a jug which was taken from a mound thirty feet high. There were trees growing on the mound three feet in diameter. I asked pa how old the jug was, and he said the Mound-Builders put it there four thousand years ago, more or less.
Annie Sidney Duffie,
Princeton, Arkansas.
My grandpa sends us Harper's Weekly and Young People, and papa says, "It is the best reading we could have for our little ones." We children hope never to miss a number of our dear Young People. We keep them all nice, and some time we will have them bound.
If all the little folks who read this paper could come out here, we could get them plenty of curiosities. The winters here are very quiet, but in the summer the town is full of strangers.
I have some pressed ferns and leaves I will send to any little folks who would like them.
Agnes, P. O. Box 19,
Forest Lake, Washington County, Minnesota.
The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:
United States internal revenue stamps for United States and foreign postage stamps.
Charles E. Barbour,
150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.