F. M. G.
There are five towns and cities named Vicksburg, one in each of the following States: Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Mississippi.
Willie M.—Directions for making an ordinary kite were given in Post-office Box No. 19. "Sim Vedder's Kite," in Young People No. 25, also contained some valuable suggestions.
Wave.—Common sunfish can not injure the gold-fish and other inhabitants of your aquarium.
Ottawa, Canada.
I am nine years old, and I have two sisters and one brother, Ruth, Alonzo, and baby Vera.
There was a boy who wrote to Young People and said he was very fond of history. So am I. I have read Peter Parley's History of the United States five times, and now I am reading Charles Dickens's Child's History of England. I don't know what to read next. I wish you would tell me the names of some child's histories, for I do not understand very well those written for older people.