ate you now that we have you. There are
several weeklies published for the "young," but the great objection
to them is that half are too dry, and the other half too
sensational. You are neither, but very interesting.

In answer to a question accompanying the above note, we would say that
there is no limit to the age of our contributors.

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GEORGE S. VAIL.--We will accept original puzzles if they are very good.
They must, in all cases, be accompanied by a full solution. Your chicken
story is very pretty, but we have no room to print it.

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CHESTER B. FERNALD.--The full operation in figures should be sent with
all answers to mathematical puzzles.

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LYMAN C.--Your land-turtle will eat pieces of pear or sweet apple,
bread, cake, and many other things. It will also live many months
without eating at all. You can keep it in a box, and it will be happier
if you give it a little earth to dig in. If the earth is deep enough, it
will make a burrow and sleep in it until next spring. We knew a little
girl who received a present of two land-turtles, which she placed in the
yard. In a few days she was unable to find them, and gave them up for
lost. The next spring, six months afterward, she was digging in her
flower beds, when, to her astonishment, she found her two lost pets, who
opened their eyes on being disturbed, and crawled sluggishly out of
their hole. They had been asleep all through the cold weather, for
turtles are very long lived, and they can easily give a whole winter to
a single nap. Rev. Mr. Wood, in a note to White's _Natural History of
Selborne_, gives a very interesting account of a tame turtle which he
allowed to crawl about his study. This turtle showed a great genius for
climbing, and at one time actually succeeded in scrambling upon a
footstool. He says: "Its food consisted of bread and milk, which it ate
several times a day, drinking the milk by scooping up some of it in its
lower jaw, and then by throwing its head back the milk ran down its
throat."

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YOUNG CHEMIST.--Spread on your paper first a solution of iodide of
potassium, then a solution of nitrate of silver. Iodide of silver forms,
and saturates the paper. The excess of nitrate of silver and the heavy
yellow powder which forms are now washed off, and the paper is ready