Miss Agnes McMurdy,
Care of Mrs. R. M. Beckwith,
Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y.
United States Department stamps, or pieces of the Washington Monument, for coins, minerals, or foreign stamps.
Harry Lowell,
830 Twentieth Street, Washington, D. C.
The Bavarian doctor mentioned in "The Story of the Boy-General," in Young People No. 57, who tried to rescue Lafayette from the Olmütz prison, was Justus Erick Bollman, my uncle.
If any reader of Young People will send me a Greek or a Danish postage stamp, or two kinds of stamps from South America, I will send in return an Indian arrow-head, or I will exchange Indian pottery for any foreign stamps except English.
C. H. Bollman, Monongahela City,
Washington County, Penn.
I would like to exchange ocean curiosities for a genuine Indian bow five feet long—not a bow like those Indians sell here in Massachusetts, but a good one that will shoot. I should like two or three arrows with it.
In answer to Carrie V. D.'s question I would say that it is not necessary to change the water in the carrot hanging basket, but only to refill it when the water dries away.
Daniel D. Lee,
Myrtle Street, Jamaica Plains, Suffolk Co., Mass.