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WILLIE H. S.--We will endeavor to send you the solution of your puzzle.

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Eddie L. A., Minnesota, after expressing great pleasure in YOUNG PEOPLE,
writes: "My papa thinks I am a pretty smart boy. I am eleven years old,
and I milk the cow, and do most of the work, and go to school besides."
You are a smart boy, Eddie, if you do all that, and do it well. If you
persevere in that course, always attending to school duties and home
work besides, there is every prospect that you will grow to be a smart
man.

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Will you please tell me why the land north of Behring Strait is
called Wrangell Land?

MAMIE E. F.

Ferdinand Wrangell, a Russian baron and traveller, who was born near the
close of the last century, and died in 1870, commanded a sledge
expedition which explored the polar sea north of East Siberia about
1822. In 1867 Captain Long, in traversing that part of the sea navigated
by Wrangell, discovered a large tract of land which the Russian explorer
had vainly endeavored to reach, and which he named Wrangell Land.

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HENRY W. R.--Every harpoon thrown into a whale before he dies is
entitled to a share of the oil.

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W. B. AITKIN.--The sun is supposed to be moving slowly through space,
carrying the earth and all the planets along with him. The great
astronomer Herschel assigned the constellation Hercules as that toward
which we are moving, and the calculations of more recent astronomers
have also pointed to that same direction.

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ANITA R. N.--The "good news" mentioned in the ballad is not recorded in
history, and although many inquiries have been made concerning it, no
satisfactory conclusion has yet been arrived at.

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G. FUNNELL.--The oldest inhabited building in the territory of the
United States is an ancient house built of adobes, or sun-dried brick,
in the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before the annexation of New
Mexico, St. Augustine, Florida, which was settled in 1565, was the
oldest town, and contained the most ancient buildings.

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Welcome favors are acknowledged from Edward Haines, Lillie Hathaway,
Arthur G. Wedge, Alice Y., Marion Frisbie, Fannie G.,