ads Av., St. Louis, Mo.

=50= var., all dif., 5c.; 12 var. Heligoland, 15c.; 6 var. Italy, 1858
to 1862, 5c.; 3 var. Hanover, 6c.; 35 var. C. American, 50c. Agents
wanted.

F. W. MILLER, 904 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.

=$3 worth of stamps for $1.= All perfect specimens selected from
collection; cannot be bought for twice our price. Satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded. Send $1 bill. =Old Colony Stamp Co.,
Plainville, Mass.=

=FREE!= =8 Handsome Japan Postage Stamps= for 2c.; 100 all different,
10c.; 100 mixed, 5c.

J. A. WILSON, 1108 Fairmount Ave., Phila.

=POSTAGE DUES.=--50c. and 30c., at 70c. each; the pair for $1.25.
=Diamond Stamp Co., Germantown, Pa.=

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Varying Farm Life.

I live on a farm twenty-four miles from New York city, but am
fond, as you may see from my letter, of reaching out beyond the
farm and farm life and making inquiries about other things. I
collect stamps, and have some old coins, one, a 1720 piece, which
I found in the field one day while cultivating corn. I am sixteen
years old. Could you tell me how to make an induction coil for
taking shocks? Could you also tell me how to make a blow-pipe? I
am thinking of making an electric telegraph. Could you give me
some points on it? I have the Morse telegraph alphabet, but don't
understand it or know how to use it.

Here is a game to be played when there are many to play it. Each
one is provided with a slip of paper and a pencil. There are three
persons who are in the secret--a confederate, the clairvoyant, and
medium. Each one writes a word or short sentence on the paper. The
clairvoyant seats herself before the writers, and the medium rubs
her forehead with a handkerchief to put her in a trance. Then the
medium collects the papers, takes any one of them (except the
blank one, which must be left till last), and puts it on the
clairvoyant's forehead. She makes up a sentence, which sentence
must be claimed by the confederate, who really wrote nothing. Then
the clairvoyant takes it from her forehead to see if she was
right. Of course she reads it, and when the next paper is put on
her forehead relates what she read on the preceding slip, greatly
to the amusement and often the surprise of the writer.

Do you want some riddles?

H. A. KRETCHMAR.