you have a pile ready. Place it between two boards, and
leave it under heavy pressure for three or four days, until it is
dry. Then remove the blotting-papers and rags very gently, taking
care not to pull the sea-weeds from the paper on which they are
pressed.

WILLIAM A. L.

When floating certain kinds of sea-weeds on to the paper it will be
found necessary to cut away, with a sharp, fine-pointed scissors, many
superfluous stems and branches, as otherwise the sea-weed when pressed
will present a matted appearance, and much of the delicacy be lost.

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and have learned
a great deal from it.

I have a collection of three thousand five hundred and thirty-one
stamps, no two alike, six hundred and six of which are American
varieties. I would like to know if any reader has one as large.

The young chemists' club have elected me President, and I am
desired to thank the readers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE for the
experiments they have sent, and to request them to favor the club
with more.

CHARLES H. W.

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DUBUQUE, IOWA.

I like YOUNG PEOPLE so much! and I always read all the letters in
the Post-office Box.

Ann A. N. is just my age, and I would like to tell her some more
things that a birdie likes. There is a little seed called millet,
which I get at the market in the heads as it grows, and the
birdies love to pick out the little round seeds. A bit of cabbage
leaf is a treat to them, and any one living in the country can
give birds the long seed heads of the plantain, or the little
satchel-like seeds of the pouch-weed. I sometimes give my birds a
little hard-boiled egg, but one must be careful not to give enough
of these things to make the bird too fat.

Tell Anna Wierum it would be better to put her cuttings in warm
moist sand for a few days, until they throw out little white
roots; then wrap each in a bit of florist's moss or cotton-wool,
and put a bit of oiled paper around the roots. Very thin brown
paper, oiled with butter or lard, will do, so it will not absorb
moisture. Pack all carefully in a small pasteboard box, and tie it
up instead of sealing it. A package tied, with no writing in it,
goe