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“Answers to Correspondents,
.
Correspondents,
Do not ask «questions on the same sheet of pa-
per, with ae ‘ders, as they will not be an-
red, respondents, in sending & a au mber
ot questions. will aid us greatly byw
one side of the paper only,
questions wil
who send them, Novice is now
hereafter no letters will be answeret
are “EDITOR OF ede
NOTICE, 2
Renders of Happy Days who send questions
lumn 6) ear in
into consideration, they will readily see the fol-
Sure Footep Mixe.—We cannot enumerate
them inthis column for lack of space; send
four name ang fiidrass for catalogue, of detect
ve stories. ve never published ai
story by that Mathon in this paper. 3 Ww 5
cannot oy what we may do in the future,
IY ER.—In a game of progressive eu-
chre 7 pete persons are Stied for the first prize,
t to see who takes it, the loser takes
5 this mle applies in the absence
of any other “rogre asive euchre clubs
often have standing rules of their own which
cover er the
Gneeater IELD.—For Players who took
in
1806 Tebeans A Cleveland, ha athe best betting
ay erage. think Van Haltren He the better
play ‘Pitzeimnmion ns _is5 feet 113-4 inches
falfana Cor Corbett 6feet Linch, 4 *sdnian Anson
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ALLAN TH —The five-cent red playin;
ecard stamp, erforated, {old peper ic is catalogues
at 90 cents. 6 no ot! ations. ea
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‘The 60-cent inland exchange, sear att
and part perforated, are quoted T=
old paper, 15 cents; silt paper, 50 c 3
We cannot 8a) without seeing the mente 3
there are four
Carter H, Trantio
are many
ly of requesting us to put the answers to their kinds of invisible. in falto. wing Is ver
custo in the next issue of the paper. simple: Write with cobalt disotver ina awe
Goos.—Your writing is g| solution of muriatic acid; when cold the Writ:
fair.
“ Tundsome Harry” ended in No. 47 of this pa-
per, -
FT. W.—We would advise you to con-
sult some good physician and follow his ad-
vice.
‘MINNEAPOLIS. ~The rubbing ia of a private
token of nospecial value; they be: ear no pre-
ne
”D. H. D.—We cannot say where that expres-
sion originated, Our books of reference do not
mention if
Epwarp BaLF.—They are both hard times’
tokens, and are | worth twenty cents each if in
perfect conditi
, S. P,—See answer to “J.T. M.P.
this column. There are a number of vai
of frame. youn nate.
'y.—You are aboye the aver-
age rbot in hetght ana weight. 2 We will place
coupons to y credit.
Louis } Maven-—Tea d “Pawnee Bill in Okla-
homa; or, Fighting with the White ghiet by
‘rank Forrest, contained in Nos. 67 to 74 in-
clusive.
ies
FP, W.—The 32-page camera catalogue is
only sent with: the camera to thos Oo have
won cameras. Wedo not sell ‘items or send
James DouGHERTY.—T! here is no premium
on ihe YSenglich stamp described. 2 A Unites
States | on eof 1817 in fine condition is worth
three
ane [AN Don! —We_ aro not responsible for
oft the parties’ who insert exchange notices
ith a this Paper. Read notice at the head of that
os
are tL You might write to the Bocretary of
pratt’s Institute, Brooklyn, for cata
logue and i rice 0 of tuition, or ‘Columbia College,
New York Ci es,
W.0. 0. K.—The pill Geseribed is Continental
and in of little value, as v ‘ow per
lect u such curiosities, Tt might be worth
- one or two cen
CONSTANT Ttrapen, —There is no p
the United States cent st 1s unless | iti ie int ex
ther piece is an old
war token of no special aly,
James McCrErny. ~The * ileor three-cent.
piece was coined from 1851 to 1873; those from
1863 to 1869 are quoted at twen! e cent iv
must be in perfect condition
KY SMACKELL.— en}
volumes of The loys of Rew ork. Tseueds thy
Jast number was 1,000. 2 ** Handso: ie Harry ”
began in No. 901 and ended in No. 57 Tot davey
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ne
2
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aT, M.P.
your stamps from the description you
you will send them to us with a two- cent Stamp
for return postage we will give you the cata-
logue
Lit. —Tucson, Arizona, | has a population
£6.05 2 We cannot a the required in-
formation: write to the Hiteburah News Com-
pany, Vitisburgh, Pa. Ifthe book isin print
they can tell y
W.P, "R.
looks of your paper by cu
1 at von do not care to destroy the
there i. is fothing to prev ent you fro!
thing out the coupon
ying ai
extra ce of the per ons as many extra copies
of the aber as yous wa
NT READER It would be impossi-
ble for us to say what it would cost to manu-
facture cream of tartar baking powder; it
would require a chemist or somebody in in that
line of business to give you an estimal
Joun Joost.—Round voluines of Taree Days
consist of 26 numbers, price 1.73; receive or bays
cost of express or mail charg eS. 2We
{four volumes. Yer mnob “ane
tier Sour ret er questions, 4 sie fair.
7 r La Cr art—The stamp Aescribed Is
catalo eae atone cent,
Vir; gina, 1773 cent i nt tatogied at 30
catalog
this kind by m
5 e oe atato ue prices for United
States three-cent allver pi af ieces of 1863 to 1869 is
twenty five cents, Thisis tho pr! rice asked b
dealers; what they will “giv e for them {fs anoth-
er question—| probably not more than one-quar-
ter of the price asked.
EAD-HeaD Tox. —The Cherokees are among
te most enlightened tribes of Indians in the
aper and four libraries
are published * segularly at present. 3 Ther
rospect of the Vnited States annexing Cuba,
and. Hawai. udy of architecture is
good, an pase we rol it ‘thoroughly mastered,
inpor
10 say how
Jong it would take you to lei
J. M.
ing is invisible, but when the paper is heated it
will appear of a bluish color. 2 ‘There is no pre-
oe on the Wwo-cent piece of 1803: the silver
three-cent piece of same date is quoted at 25
'. Woopeury,—All tin is fire-proof, and is
need largely to protect wood from heat; we refer
tos ich issheet iron plates rolled
a with tin, which is similar to
. 2 Pawnee Bill became
ut an
r
was Democratic
and was opposed to the North, which was anti-
5S. W.—The suis of the Turkish Em-
pire is 33,000, 2,187,000, Newark, N. J.
20,000, Wee not give the ‘combined po) ‘opula:
tion of those want of statistics, 2
Great Britain manufactures the largest cannon
re-armsof any nation, 3 Switzer-
ina is noted for its scenery. 4 Great Britain
has the lar cat and most powerfal n 5
Germany has ut 3235 war vessels of all Pieids.
6 1 he United States army consists of 25,000 non-
commissioned officers and men,
Cras. J, WESTRING.—The precious stones as
nui
ty; uary—Ameth; si
viblent passions: March—!
wisdom and firmness; Apri Sap hire, tres
from enchant ements May—Emerald, insure:
preventive Saaingt
stone, couray
true love; Agate, long life, health and
prosperity quip uby, discovers poiso
recis ey. ist—Sardonyx, co! conjugal felicl Pe
ty; Septembor=Cheysolste, free from evil pas-
sions: —Opa denotes bo >pe and shrewd-
ness; November—Topaz,. and friend
ship; December—Turquoise, prosperity in love.
GENERAL Pacer In a war betwee!
et
n . a8
1,350,000, 3 The highest mo
x hi untains are in the
eastern part, although thero are many moun
ainous districts in the western part. The level
portions are the swamp lands near the c
and th lleys between the ranges of mounts
are 200 miles long
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consideration, e n 130 miles from
the most southern part ee Moria 6 By tak-
ing any good schou! find the
shapes of the Bahan Tslands. and their dis-
tance from C
PETER coonen ~The Columbian stamps,
used, are catalogued as follows: One-cent one
ent one cen six cents, 4-cent
fires cents, Scent four cents, 6-cent ten cents,
eight cent:
i
nue orange one ecnt, the 10-cent. orange special
delivery ter its, blue, watermarked, thre
nts, 3 The 25-cent or eent revenues de.
scribed, one cent each. 4 Your writing is fair.
26, 183, cameon Thursday, 6 Stamp
catalogues cost fifty cents. 7 We cannot pub-
lish stamp dealers’ addresses | in this column,
NERAL ALPHONSO.—The Cuban war bega:
September 19, 1895, im Key West to fiat
yana is about 110 miles. 3 This is the second
war for the independence of Cubn; the first one
was a failure, T the, Bahama iad belon;
England; the Isle 3 belon; Spa
Jamaica belongs to. Cnc, 5 it The Ss manish
Inites
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on
e ny atlas of t
world; you can get them from dealers in Baten
books, or they can ere on ‘ for you.
Taxes City.— thirteen Fears oug oug’ he
fo be about four feet nine f thirte tall and weigh
or 90 poun 21 ould be im possible for
us to aN, rein the different
prmies. SF fecal ‘cuban ‘nnn ents. i It would be
im
have the measles more than once, ai
Several ik n seldom
consider t
Navy, as ations
may have vessels of heavier draught but itis s
question if they are superiors nothing buf. ai
setnal test would pro 7 Nishols, Young,
MeMahon and Stivett: 3 rere aor of the best.
pitchers in the League last y: .
(Several letters remain over to be answered
next week.)
Slof plate
ALL ABOUT STAMPS.
By “Privat,”
Great Britary was the first country to
issue postage Stamp, in 1810, and the issue
consisted of tw o denominations, 1 penny
black and 2 pence blue. . There'is a variety
of the 1 penny. Commonly the stamp has
ornaments in each corner, but in the va-
riety, instead of the ornaments in the u
per comers are the letters, “* V" in the left.
and “I” in the right, This ann is very
rare, and worth $75. The“ V. I
“ Victoria jtegina,” meaning iv Queen
Victoriac® A fraud has been perpetrated
with this 1 penny stamp, by erasing the
ornaments in ommon variety, an
printing in the letters “v" and “ R,”
There is a variety of the 2 cent stamp of
1800. The regular color is carmine, but the
variety i in question isa dark claret or lake.
It is listed at 50c., new, new, and 5c. used,
Don't collect fashionable stamps.
Elamps - .that everyone is collecting are
bound to go up in price with arush, Let
them alone, and turn pone attention to
countries that are not being collected to
an. 1 pe procared Stamps of such countries
can be procured very cheaply, and when
they in their turn become fashionable, you
will reap the benefits.
“O. G.” means that t the stamp has the
original gum.
“Mint state” means that the stamp not
only has the original gum, but that it (the
stamp), remains exac as it was when
finished by the printers, perfect in every
way, and without ev erhaving been hinged
in an album,
A “surcharge” is an-overprint, placed
on stamps to, as a rule, change their value
and make them good for the Payment, of
postage to a different amount than origin.
ally expressed on the face, as a figure “5”
surcharged on the face of a ten cent stamp
would change the value of the stamp from
10c, to ies and vice versa, Then, often,
the si s of a mother country are sur-
charged with the namie of a colony, and
these stamps are then good for postage in
PuMt col ony. Entire new,issues are some-
times made by surcharging, as the stamps
of Hawaii, issue o! 1, surcharged,
“Provisional Govt., 1893,” in 1893, for the
use of te Provisional government. There
are all too many surcharges, and if one
starts in to collect them, he will get lost
in the labyrinths, There are a few which
may be collected, bu t as a general thing I
should advise against their collection,
In the year 1858 an English dealer bought
1,500,000 Cape of Good Hope triangular
stamps, from an old lady who had gather-
ed the stamps for some charitable purpose,
In the lot were twenty of the od b
error,’ a stamp that id worth $350, tho
not worth that price at that time,
were hundreds of the regular
Icck” stamps, many in strips and pairs,
and these are now worth $15 i $25 each,
I came across an itemin one of my stamp
2
it journals, the other day, which told of four-
teen stamps which in 1868 catalogued only
$20,80. To-day these same fourteen stamps
catalogue more than $500, This is a fact,
what has been the case in the past.
will be the case in the future. If one will
o along quietly, collecting stamps which
are now common enough, and which can
be had very cheaply, he will find himself
at the end of, sa ay tw enty years, possessed
of a collection which will be worth a great
deal of money—and then, just think of the
hundreds of dollars’ worth of pleasure you
will-bave gotten out of it!
In the new 1807 catalogue, the 2-cent
stamp 4, unwatermarked, cata-
logues as follows, for unused : Triang. te I,
5e.; triangle II, 20¢,; triangle III, Ibe The
same stamp, issue 0 1895, watermarked,
catalogues as follows: Triangle, I, 8c. ;
triangle Il, 15e.; triangle III, 3c,
Several of the auction sales held in New
York City, this season, have had Match
and Medicine stamps, and these have sold
t a fair price, which shows that they are
ns gradually coming Into favor, as last year
they would | not sell at auction at all.
At a recent auction sale in Boston a lot
numbers sold for prices,
Like the Match and Medicine, these would
not sell at auction at all last season.
A United States collector has a room in
his house papered oh postage stamps of
Honduras, Te t took 30,000 stamps to cover
the walls,
BICYCLE TALKS,
By “‘NEVERTIRE,”
The announcement of the first road race
of the coming season is out. The race will
be acentury handicap, the limit man hav-
ing one hour and a half start. The race
will be run April 4, and will be from Min-
- {neapolis, Minn., to Northfield and return.
A great deal is claimed for the triangle-
shaped bicycle frame, but I doubt if it ever
comes into general use. It must be that
the present shape of frame is very nearly
as perfect as can be made.
President-elect iicKinley is a member
of a Chicago cycling club, and a cycling
journal of that city Tainks he should give
some deserving ‘‘scorcher” a position in
his cabinet,
Very few souvenirs were given away at
the Chicago cycle show, and the cycle
journals of that city claim that this had
something to do with the poor attendance
on the first days,
Starbuck and Michael have been match
ed fora series of three races, to come off
early the coming season, Michael is at
present in Europe.
‘Ed. Roth, the Chicago boy who rolled up
such an enormous amount: of mileage in
1806, has received his 146century bars from
the Century Club,
The legislature of both Colorado and
Pennsylvania are considering the passage
of bills providing for the building of cycle
aths five feet wide along public roads.
iood! Let other States do ikewise,
cycle show was recently held in Dub-
lin, Ireland, and the Irish boys were great-
ly taken with the American wheels, It is
safe tosay that many of our wheels will be
sold and ridden in Old Ireland the coming
season,
A Dakota veyelist hunts geese awheel,
. —_——
Among the freaks on exhibition at the
New York cycle show, is a bie cle 24 fect
long and 15 feet high. isplayed at
the Paris cycle show, and was brought
ren on purpose for exhibition in New
or)
John Nobre, the presentjholder of the New
York- Philadelphia record of 7hours, 6 min-
utes, claims that he can make the Tide in
6 hours, and is training for that purpose,
He will make the attempt early in the
spring.
A sign over the door of a building In a
village of Pennsylvanta reads, following
the man’ 's name, * Dealer in Bicycles and
Justice.” The man Sells hieyeles, and is
Justice of the Peace.
Bald and Cooper met at a “smoker"
iven by the Chicago Cycling Club Toes.
y, and after smoking the pipe of peace,
buried the hatchet. They have been rivals
for the past two seasons,
Spring seat-posts, both spiral spring and
pneumatic, are coming into use, and it is
said by those who have tried them that
they are all right.
Wheels changeable from a single t
tandem, and vice versa, areon the market,
It would seem as if these should find a sale
in cofintry. districts, where only occasion-
ally one would wish for a tandem,
A patent has been Rranted for a chest-
rest, which is fastened to the handle-bars,
and ‘against which the rider leans his chest
when riding. Albert Shock, the long-dis-
tance racing man, has always used somie-
thing of this kind, and claims itisa great
thing, as it takes most of the strain off the
rms,
It is a fact, and one that should be borne
in mind when buying, that a good wheel is
mee eee to be cheap than a cheap wheel
3 t ood
Two Buffalo, N, Y. riders rode centuries
on New Year's day, hoping to be able to
repeat the operation every day in the year,
They will scarcely succeed.
Eddie Bald says he wants to go to Europe
this season, to vin n glory, more than for
money's sake, ay get neither, Our
boys have fared badly across the big waters
for a year past,