United States War Department stamps, for foreign stamps.
Montgomery M. Taylor,
Newport Barracks, Newport, Ky.
Coins, for an Indian tomahawk or pipe, shells, minerals, coins, or other curiosities.
Alfred W. Kerr,
22 Crescent Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.
G. H.—"The Story of George Washington" ran through ten numbers of Harper's Young People, Vol. I., beginning in No. 24, April 13, and ending in No. 33, June 15.
Clement L. and Virginia H. P.—In 1872, Captain Lawson, an Englishman, accompanied by a band of natives, explored the island of Papua, or New Guinea. In the published account of his travels mention is made of Mount Hercules, which, according to his measurements, is 32,783 feet above the sea-level, or over 3000 feet higher than Mount Everest. Captain Lawson's statement has not yet been verified by farther scientific investigation, and the latest geographies and encyclopædias continue to name Mount Everest as the highest known peak on the earth's surface.