r than they are wanted. The meal-moth is very pretty. Its
fore-wings are light brown, with a dark chocolate-brown spot on the base
and tip of each. It is often to be seen clinging to the ceiling of
kitchen or store-room, with its tail curved over its back. This moth
deposits its eggs in the meal, and in a short time the worm is hatched,
which soon forms itself into a cocoon, from which the moth again comes
forth. You may find this worm crawling in old flour barrels or some box
in which meal has been kept; and if you keep a box of meal standing open
in some warm place, the moth will be very likely to find it, especially
in the summer-time, and use it as a deposit for her eggs. Meanwhile you
can feed your mocking-birds on meal and milk, mixed now and then with
very fine chopped raw beef and with bits of fruit. You can also buy
prepared food for them. Be sure to give them plenty of clean gravel in
the bottom of the cage.

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"SUBSCRIBER," Moline, Illinois.--Heph_ai_stos is the correct Greek
spelling of Vulcan's name, but Heph_ae_stos is the accepted English
spelling of the word. Either is correct.--The translation of _Don
Quixote_ has become such a standard English work that the ordinary
English pronunciation of the name is allowable. In Spanish it is
pronounced Ke-ho-tay, with a slight accent on the second syllable.

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Favors are acknowledged from Belle R., Tennessee; Willie D. V., Indiana;
Robbie B. H., St. John, New Brunswick; Alpha T. E., Pennsylvania; from
Illinois--Mamie Ripley, Tommy C. H., Edith Patterson, Joseph K.; from
Massachusetts--Kennie Norwood, L. Tyler P., Stanley K. H., Harry B.,
F. U. T.; from Ohio--Lulie H., Oscar B., Willie Gordon, Ralph M. F.,
Hattie Mitchell; from Michigan--Nellie M. C., L. A. Waldron, Edward
D. E.; from New York--Fred L. Colwell, A. M. Tucker, D. C. Gilmore;
Eddie R. Derwart, Toronto, Canada.

Correct answers to puzzles received from Walter S. Dodge, Washington,
D. C.; Merton L. T., Massachusetts; James A. S., Connecticut; Sallie
V. B., Nebraska; L. A. W., Canada; Harry Lewis, Kentucky; C. M. J.,
Ohio; from Pennsylvania--R. O. Lowry, George N. Hayward, Walter Lowry,
Chester B. F., Florence M.; from New Jersey--K. H. Talbot, Otto M. Rau;
from California--Violet A. Francis, F. T. Swett; from New York--H. G.
S., Florence, Main, Perkins S., G. A. Page, Van Rensselaer, Etta R.,
Etha F. Smith, "Oats," Nell