The following exchanges are offered by correspondents:
One of Scott's International Postage-stamp Albums of 1880, and a collection of six hundred stamps, many rare, for a good foot-ball.
FRANK ALABASTER, P. O. Box 1423, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co., Mich.
Stamps, minerals, and curiosities, including fossils, for postage stamps and coins; also, a few United States postal cards of the old issues, with printing on the back, but not otherwise used, for other postal cards or for rare stamps.
L. H. A., JUN., 41 North Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, Penn.
Fine flower seeds and pressed ferns and flowers, for minerals, shells, petrifactions, and other interesting curiosities. No stamps wanted.
FREDDY ANDRIESSEN, Beaver, Beaver Co., Penn.
Sand and stones from the Falls of St. Anthony, and specimens of wood, cut two and a half inches square, of bass-wood; red and white oak, red and white elm, black and white ash, cottonwood, iron-wood, cherry, red cedar, silver and bird's-eye maple, butternut, and white pine, for soil from the different States and countries, curiosities of any kind, or specimens of wood; same size as above. Foreign woods especially desired. Please state what is desired in exchange, and give name and locality in labelling specimens.
HOWARD S. ABBOTT, 1115 Fifth Street, E. D., Minneapolis, Minn.
A. P. BENNETT, 1301 Forrest Street, Jersey City Heights, N. J.
Postmarks, for the same. Fifteen postmarks, for five foreign stamps (no duplicates). Also, postmarks and Kansas agates, for Indian relics or curiosities.
All kinds of ores, including iron ore from Egypt and Denmark, Irish heather, and foreign stamps, for old American coins.
A READER OF "YOUNG PEOPLE," P. O. Box 59, Cumberland, Md.
Thirty foreign stamps, for a good Indian relic. Twenty, for Indian arrow-heads. Or stamps, for stamps.
EXCHANGE, 108 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
Stamps from France, Italy, Germany, and England, for stamps from Egypt, Cape of Good Hope, and Argentine Republic.
JOHN H. FISHER, Mount Washington, Baltimore Co., Md.
Rare stamps, minerals, coins, shells from China, insects, and curiosities, for stamps, coins, minerals, fossils, insects, Indian relics, or any good curiosities. Offers received for two Roman coins.