Postmarks.

Allan J. Houghton,
P. O. Box 619, Washington, D. C.


Michigan postmarks and minerals and shells from the Atlantic Ocean for shells and curiosities from the Pacific coast.

Robert J. Lasier,
124 Fort Street West, Detroit, Mich.


Willie J. F.—Club or Acme. For full information, see advertisement of Peck & Snyder, or Barney & Berry, in our columns.


Willie F. W.—1. Twenty-five-cent gold pieces have been coined by the United States, but they have never been in general circulation.—2. There is no work on practical book-binding from which the business can be learned. Your best way would be to make the acquaintance of some book-binder, and get him to show you the process. There are excellent works on ornamental book-binding, but they are expensive, and would be of no use to an amateur.—3. No. Each kind has its partisans.