Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895 Part 12

Central square.--1. To utter with musical sounds. 2. A stone image. 3.

Part of the head. 4. Joy.

Lower left-hand square.--1. To bl.u.s.ter. 2. A notion. 3. Tidy. 4. Outer door.

Lower right-hand square.--1. Snakelike fishes. 2. To publish. 3. An acid fruit. 4. A pace.

Answers to Kinks.

No. 90.--Ben Bolt.

Odo. Mat. Shadrack. Fish. Ord. Count. Sam. Mesheck. Bert. Hook.

Key. Banks. Lear. Abe. Abednego. Pasha. Eve. Herod. Olive. Hemans.

Ham. Ibsen. Kit. Wayne. Church. Atlas. Will Low. King. Bird.

Sargent.

No. 91.

N A M E E D I S S O L O T S E R

Questions and Answers.

Howard Notman, Keene Valley, N. Y., is interested in beetles, and wants to get specimens from Florida, Mexico, Central and South America. In return he will send good American specimens. Barbara A.: The new badges are delayed by the decision about design. We shall, if possible, secure the new gold badges for fifty cents each. Margaret Slosson, Pittsford, Vt., says: "I would like to exchange fresh specimens--that is, ones not pressed--of ferns described in Gray's _Manual_ of the botany of the northern United States. Will those wis.h.i.+ng ferns please send list of ferns wanted, and list of ones for exchange?"

In the new form of the ROUND TABLE, the advertis.e.m.e.nts are to be bound into the complete volume. Not a few people think the advertis.e.m.e.nts far too interesting to throw away. Florence E. Cowan, who belongs to a Chapter that has been most active in helping the School Fund, suggests that the Order gives to Good Will a library. We like the suggestion, but think the best plan is to first finish the Fund. Rebekah Philips Dixon, 1513 Jackson Street, San Francisco. Cal., wants to hear from anybody interested in college yells and colors, and especially asks "M. T." who started the discussion about yells, to write her.

The Lafayette Chapter, Norman Hart, Easton, Pa., is to begin publication of _Leisure Hours_, and wants original contributions that are short, say 300 words. The Lafayette is an active Chapter, and its paper ought to be a good one.

A Good Trick in Dominoes.

Here is a trick played with dominoes which may be new: Spread out a set of dominoes upon the table, being careful to extract one for your own use. Inform the company that if they will match the dominoes you have laid down, using every domino, you will, after leaving the room, determine the numbers at either end of the match. You then leave the room, and read the numbers on your stolen domino. This will almost infallibly prove to be the end numbers of the match. When the match has been formed and concealed by a handkerchief, you enter the room and announce the end numbers.

VINCENT V. M. BEEDE.

[Ill.u.s.tration: STAMPS]

This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor Stamp Department.

Have you noticed that U. S. stamps are now printed on water-marked paper? The water-mark can be seen quite plainly in the blank margin, but is very indistinct in the stamps themselves. It consists of the letters U S P S in double line capitals 16 mm. high repeated, and the probable intention was to have one of the letters on each stamp. But if so the work has been carelessly done by the paper-makers, as there are only ninety letters to the one hundred stamps, together with the two blank margins on the two sides of each sheet. The arrangement is as follows:

P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S U S P S

Only nine letters horizontally, to each of the ten lines. It is to be hoped that the Postmaster-General will have the paper made in such a way that each and every stamp will have the same water-mark. Why not use the letters U. S. on each stamp? They could be made 4 or 5 mm. high, and be plainly seen. The New South Wales stamps, for instance, are marked "N. S. W.," with a crown above. So far as I have seen, the present water-mark appears on the following stamps: 1c. blue; 2c. red, on all three types of the triangle; 8c. purple, and 10c. dark green.

A. CORT.--The dealers sell quarters of 1819 at 75c., dimes of 1838-39 at 20c. each. Age has nothing to do with the value of a coin. You can buy some coins 2000 years old and over at 25c. each at the dealers.

ALICE CALHOUN.--Impossible to answer your question as value depends on what the stamps are. You can buy a packet of 1000 varieties of stamps from dealers for $15.

M. C. W.--Sold by dealers at 8c.

A. BALL.--The initials D. G. on coins mean "Deo Gratia," that is "By the grace of G.o.d." Almost all mottoes and inscriptions on coins are in Latin, and usually with many abbreviations.

H. B. CARING, Rochester, N.Y.--I have a letter for you which has been returned from Rochester.

PHILATUS.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Ivory Soap]

At all grocery stores east of the Rocky Mountains two sizes of Ivory Soap are sold; one that costs five cents a cake, and a larger size. The larger cake is the more convenient and economical for laundry and general household use. If your Grocer is out of it, insist on his getting it for you.

THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI.

EARN A TRICYCLE!

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We wish to introduce our Teas, Spices, and Baking Powder. Sell 30 lbs.

and we will give you a Fairy Tricycle; sell 25 lbs. for a Solid Silver Watch and Chain; 50 lbs for a Gold Watch and Chain; 75 lbs. for a Bicycle; 10 lbs. for a Beautiful Gold Ring. Express prepaid if cash is sent for goods. Write for catalog and order sheet.

W. G. BAKER,

SPRINGFIELD, Ma.s.s.