I tried f.a.n.n.y S.'s recipe for caramels, and thought it was very nice.

I would like to exchange postage stamps with any boy or girl.

J. FRED SEAMAN, 114 c.u.mberland Street, Brooklyn, New York.

My home is eighteen miles from St. Paul, on Lake St. Croix. It is a beautiful lake, and is navigable for large steamers, and there is splendid fishing here for boys. We find many specimens of carnelian on the lake sh.o.r.e. It is a species of agate or chalcedony. I would like to exchange some for any curiosities from any other State.

CARRIE E. SILLIMAN, Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin.

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and like it very much.

I am collecting birds' eggs, and would be pleased to exchange varieties with any of the correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE.

I have six catalogues of the birds and eggs of Ohio, which I will take pleasure in forwarding to any six correspondents engaged in collecting, if they will send me the necessary postage.

WALTER DOUGLa.s.s, Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio.

I subscribed for YOUNG PEOPLE immediately on seeing it. I liked it ever so much then, and I like it more and more all the time.

I have a lot of United States, official, and foreign postage stamps that I would like to exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE (especially with those just beginning a collection, as I have not many rare stamps) for minerals, curiosities, or relics of any kind.

Correspondents will please write to me, stating what kind of stamps they would like, and what they have to exchange for them.

GEORGE M. FINCKEL, P. O. Box 368, Washington, D. C.

If Paul R. H., of Philadelphia, whose letter was in Post-office Box No.

35, will send his address to Annie M. Wickham, t.i.tusville, Pennsylvania, she will send him some Canton and Hong-Kong postage stamps for his collection.

A dear friend sends me YOUNG PEOPLE every week. I have all the numbers, and enjoy them very much.

I tried Puss Hunter's recipe for cake, and found it very nice.

I am seven years old, and have been to school only one term, but mamma taught me to write more than a year ago.

I have two flower beds of my own, in which are geraniums, verbenas, heliotropes, pansies, daisies, and forget-me-nots. I would like to exchange some of these pressed with Genevieve, or any other little girl.

MAY DOOLITTLE, 19 South Union Street, Rochester, New York.

I have a small stamp collection of two hundred and fifty different kinds, and I would be glad to exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I am thirteen years old.

ERNEST ARONI, Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky.

I would like to exchange minerals with some one in a Western or Southern State.

EDWIN O. JORDAN, Thomaston, Knox County, Maine.

I have a pony of my own, and I ride him almost every day. I would like to exchange stamps with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I have about four hundred stamps.

PIERRE JAY, Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York.

I am collecting postmarks of different towns and cities of this and foreign countries. I have only two hundred now, but am very anxious for more, and would like to exchange with any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE.

STANLEY K. HAWKINS, United States Hotel, Boston, Ma.s.sachusetts.

I am eleven years old, and my brother is nine. We are making a collection of b.u.t.terflies, moths, and bugs. We have caught three hundred different kinds, and would like to exchange with any boy or girl in the Western or Southern States.

WILLIAM M. LOW, No. 129 Wooster Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

ALBERT S. BARRETT.--It is impossible for us to help you. Try some of our exchanges. You might arrange to send them minerals, or some other natural curiosity, in exchange for what you wish.

Yesterday morning auntie, uncle, and I went out for a long walk over the mountains. When we reached the ridge, about a mile and a half above us, we could look off and see one of the great peaks of the Sierra, at the base of which is one of the best paying quartz mines in California. It was a splendid sight--the great mountains towering up to the sky, while on the top of one higher than any of those immediately surrounding was the great black rock of the Sierra b.u.t.tes. The lower part of the rock was covered with snow, and behind it was the pale, misty, dull, blue sky. Off to the eastward the ridge was covered with snow, and we had a walk on a snow-bank several hundred feet long, and from four to six feet deep. When we reached home we had some ripe cherries for dinner.

I keep every number of YOUNG PEOPLE, and auntie sews them together for me with twine. Her HARPER'S BAZARS, MAGAZINES, and WEEKLIES are all fixed the same way. I think YOUNG PEOPLE, is the best paper for children that was ever published. I have told my mamma, who lives in San Francisco, where I was born, a great deal about it.

I am pressing some flowers for Genevieve Harvey, for although I live in the same State, uncle says we do not have the same kind of flowers here in the mountains as they have in the valley. We have some very beautiful and curious flowers up here, and I should be glad to exchange pressed mountain flowers for Eastern flowers with any little girl.

MARY AUGUSTA REID, Downieville, Sierra County, California.

CHARLIE W.--Iris was the daughter of Thaumas, a sea deity who represented the majesty of the sea, and Electra. Originally she personified the rainbow, but came afterward to be the swift messenger of the G.o.ds. Homer alludes to her as darting "like hail or snow that falls from the clouds," from one end of the world to the other, and diving into all the hidden depths of the universe to execute the commands of the G.o.ds. In ancient art Iris is represented with wings and a herald's staff.

Aurora, or Eos, was the G.o.ddess of Dawn. She was the mother of Boreas, Zephyrus, Eurus, and Notus, the north, west, east, and south winds.

Another of her sons was Memnon, King of aethiopia, who was slain by Achilles. Ever since his death Aurora has wept constantly, and the dew of the early morning is caused by her tears falling to earth. Aurora is pictured as driving a chariot and four horses, or as gliding through the air on wings, hastening to announce the arrival of the G.o.d of Day.