ch I will exchange for birds' eggs or Indian relics.

HARRY F. HAINES,
1259 Waverley Place, Elizabeth, New Jersey.

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Papa takes HARPER'S BAZAR, WEEKLY, and MAGAZINE for himself and
mamma, and YOUNG PEOPLE for sister Mabel and me. We think it is a
splendid little paper.

I have twenty different kinds of flower seeds, and would like to
exchange with some little girls in the far West and South.

GRACE DENTON,
114 Thirty-ninth Street, South Brooklyn,
Kings County, New York.

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I shall be very grateful if any correspondents who can will send
me specimens of minerals or fossil formations in exchange for the
beautiful quartz crystals that we find imbedded in the rock at
this place. I am also anxious to get some pretty shells,
especially from the Southern and Western coasts. I will return any
excess of postage on packages.

SUSIE C. BENEDICT,
Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York.

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I have a nice collection of curiosities, and if Ida B. D., of
California, will kindly send me some shells from the Pacific
coast, especially some abalone shells, and some sea-mosses, I will
exchange any of my curiosities for them. My curiosities consist of
stalactites, stalagmites, conglomerates, crystals, Indian
arrow-heads (some of which are broken), gypsum, iron ore, and a
great many pretty pebbles and stones that I find on the sand-bars
along Green River. If she sends me any specimens, will she please
mark the name and where each one is from?

JOHN H. BARTLETT, Jun.,
Greensburgh, Green County, Kentucky.

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JESSE HARGRAVE.--The poet alluded to by Scott in the forty-first chapter
of _The Heart of Mid-Lothian_, as "him of the laurel wreath," was Robert
Southey, who was appointed poet laureate of England in 1813. The lines
quoted are from Southey's poem of "Thalaba the Destroyer," eleventh
book, thirty-sixth stanza.

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W. W. S.--Many thanks for your kind attention in sending us the
interesting facts concerning the nesting of English sparrows in trees.
These little foreigners will pile the mass of dried grass, hair, and
other rubbish which composes their nest, on any ledge or shelf which
will support it, and if a