"A Little Miser," in YOUNG PEOPLE No.
33, is after an oil-painting by Adrien Marie, a French artist.

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I. O.--There is a very good swimming school at the Battery, New York
city.

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JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY.

I was interested in the article about the "New York Prison-Ships,"
and I think that many of the correspondents who live far away
would be interested to know what has been done in New York in
commemoration of the Old Sugar-house Revolutionary martyrs. Not
long ago I was walking past Trinity Church yard with my father,
when the largest and most beautiful monument attracted my
attention, and I asked papa to take me in the church-yard to see
it. When I got close to it I saw that it was a massive structure
with Gothic openings. It is fully sixty-feet high and twenty feet
square, with fine carvings, and of beautiful workmanship. On one
side is an inscription stating that the monument was erected in
memory of the patriots who suffered as prisoners and died in the
Old Sugar-House. It was paid for by private subscription. If any
correspondents from a distance visit New York, they will be
interested to see this monument in Trinity Church yard, for the
sake of the noble heroes to whose memory it was erected.

EDDIE A. L.

Correspondents will also be interested to know that the ashes of the
prison-ship martyrs now rest in a handsome tomb built in the hill-side
of Fort Greene, Brooklyn--a pretty grassy spot, now known as Washington
Park. As these brave men died, they were taken ashore and buried in the
swampy land forming the shore of Wallabout Bay. There they lay until
1808, when they were removed to a vault near the Brooklyn Navy-yard. In
time this vault became very much dilapidated, and was almost forgotten,
until in 1855 the question of removing the remains to a more suitable
resting-place began to be agitated by the citizens of Brooklyn. Nothing,
however, was done for some years, when finally the Legislature of New
York appropriated a sum for the building of the tomb on Fort Greene, to
which place the coffins were removed in the spring of 1873.

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ISABELLA S. R.--In preparing ferns for skeleton-leaf bouquets it is not
necessary to place them in the macerating bowl before bleaching, as the
texture of the f