telling him what
to write. My little brother Paul bothers me considerably
when I want to make things.

Good bye, dear Jack; you are a nice fellow. Your friend,

FELIX RENOUF HOLT.

"Felix is not alone," says the Little School-ma'am, "in his admiration
for Little Lord Fauntleroy. The children of the Red School House all are
charmed with his lordship, and for myself I consider him one of the very
sweetest and noblest little boys in English literature."

FISHING FOR NECKLACES.

According to my friend, Ernest Ingersoll, a large proportion of the red
coral used by jewelers in making ornaments comes from the Mediterranean
coast of Algeria, where it is gathered chiefly by an ingenious machine.
Nets, the meshes of which are loose, are hung on the bars of a cross,
and dragged at the bottom of the sea among the nooks and crevices of the
rocks. These nets, winding about the branches of the coralline growth,
break off its branches, which adhere to the meshes. When he thinks it is
laden, the fisherman draws the net to the surface and helps himself to
the coral. This is sold in various markets, and afterward worked into
ornaments, necklaces, bracelets, and other pretty articles for girls and
their mammas.

A SUGGESTION TO THE BOTTLED FISH.

READING, MASS.,

DEAR JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT: I read in the February number about
the bottled fish. I think it is very queer. In "Grimm's
Fairy Tales" there is a story about a fox that crept into a
hole where there was something to eat. After he ate it he
grew so fat that he could not get out, and he stayed there
till the farmer found him and killed him. I suppose it was
the same way with the fish, only he fed on oysters, and as I
think there are no farmers at the bottom of the sea, he
stayed there till he was drawn up. If I had been that fish,
I would have starved myself till I was thin enough to get
out. I have taken St. Nicholas since I was two years old,
and my mamma says she brought me up on it, so you see I have
been well brought up.

I remain yours truly,

E. S. K. PACKARD.

THE NEWSPAPER PLANT.

You are to be told in this month's ST. NICHOLAS, I hear, about a curious
"lace-leaf," a "vegetable necktie," and a "caricature plant." If