The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-07-30

Western curiositics for seashells.--L @. Barber
Utica, Neb.
Posta,s for albums-Ethel Kildon Bethesda O.;
Chas. A. Eeiton, Calais. VT
Songs and instrumental music for select pieces
Minnie Z. Brown, Unity, Wis.
Seamoss, pressed or natural, for Indian curiosi-
ties, pretty seashelIs. ferns. - Nellie Jakins,
Point-no. Point, Port Gamble, Wash Ter.
Wanted. letters BY Delner A. Budd. Kattskill
House. Kattskill Bay. Lake George. N. Y; Jessie
White. Mount Hope. Wis. Bertha Goodrich. Shi-
loh w. Va; Glencora Kephart, Oseeola Mills, Pa,
whose father (Simon Kepi,art) would hear from
Lieut.. Shultz and other comrades of the Third Di-
vision. Second Corps; Della L. Kerr, Shelby, o.. {;
Nellie Garner, New Brighton. Pa; John E. Lans-
den Bethany, Ill.-father and eight unccs in the
war; Irving n. Jackson. Box 7, Bailey's Harbor,
Wis. (lS), and sends this album verse:
In sailing down lfe's harbor,
In your little, light canoe,
May you have pleasant voyage
And always room for two
Wanted special correspondence Letters on the
country from young ladies East and young gentle
men in Colorado or Northwestern Kansas.-Bernie
Charles Snowden and young gentlemen West to
exchange photographs and receive the words of
Under the Daisies Matte NJ Carroll, Warsaw
Mo.
From gentlemen 20 to 25, and exchange cards
with the Club, by daughter of veteran: of Co. F.
esd Ohio.-M. Helen Calvert, Shiloh, w. Va
From the South--Ida Cook, Willard, Mo.
From young people of II who love music.-Pinkie
Hatten Marshall, III.
From IL year old sons and daughters of veterans
Ed. Lock, Box Z. York, Neb.
From Winnie L. Conover, Kansas-Albert F.
Wakefield, Osceola, Mich; son Of an 18th N. Y.
veteran, and seven years a cripple from infiamna-
tory rheumatism.
From some one who lives or has been in Nam
tucket Isand.-Jane Fowler, Gunter, No.
From soldiers daughters.-Nel1ie Cole Creston,
Ill.
From, shorthand correspondents, by Munson
writer.-O p. W., Lock Box 10, Putnam, Conn.
Wanted, songs: amber Tresses.'-Maggie Bal
ley. Box 49,, Spencer. Mass.
"A Package of Old Letters; also, TO exchange
wood Up" q quickstep, for march.-Ida Cook,
Willard, Mo.
ECurfew Shall Not Ring To-night."-otis NJ.
Powers. Cardington, o.
The Curious Corner.
ANSWERS to questions will not be published with
in two or three weeks after questions appear. So
all will have q chance to send replies and receive
honorable mention with number answered.
Edgar Bowerss Mathematical Problem: Cost
first COW, S36 second, $780, total, 500.
Delaware is called Blue Hen State, and also
The area of the Pacific Ocean may be roughly
estimated at 0000 900 square miles. about two
fifths of the entire surface of the earth.
Mount Everest is a little over 20, 600 feet high.
tances on account of the extensive scale on which
it Is laid out.
Our kind Editor wished to know how knew
that the people Of Nebraska are called Bug Eat
ers' The question is asked and answered in a
very popular schoolbook, called How to Study
y: s. History" edited by John Trainer, of Decatur
HIN Ivy Goode Mansfield. Ill
What captive monarch proposed to fill the room
in which he imprisoned with golden vessels as
nlSn as lie cOuid reach LOT MS ransom now large
was the room? How much did the captors receive?
"A. L. Tweedy, Lincolnville, Ind.
l. Which is the Gate City? 2. What city is called
the Smoky City? g. What river is the longest in the
world?-O. Mathews, Gillespieville, o.
l. Who was the Lowland Beauty? 2. Who was
the Tanner President? 3. Who was the Dark Horse
President? 4. What did the PowhataDs call to-
bacco? s. Who was the Sage of Mentor3 6. What
are the natives of Alabama called? z. Who said
Give 'em Hail Columbia, boys" I'm. Ivy Good
ell, Mansfield. Ill.
l. When did the British take possession of WASH
ington and burn the public buildings? 2 When and
where printing press first set up in the United
States? 8. When the first cargo of negroes
brought to Jamestown? T. Who was made EN-
peror of Rome when II years of age? 5. When
was Col. Baker killed? 6. When did AntiOchus
invade Greece Carrie Williams GAINESVILLE, o.
Decoration Day always comes on May 80. Why
and when established? What was Darius fuckers
plan for the rebellion and what would have been
the result had it been carried out? Who was Judas
of the West? Give incident.-Ed. Rynearson, Get
tysburg Darke Co., o.