Collecting Stamps

A -wriber to the Bfcamp Department of Harper's Boumidi Table says : "My boys have beaa eollectimg stamp s for nearly tivo years, andl asíldO from tune great pleasure ttet tibey take, they have profiíted ín many waya throiigh tih'iis hobby (or 'scáenee,' as my oldest boy saya ib properly te). Ttueir play mates hiave regular stamp albums, tufc ttoey thieíaselves have stnick out au önrtlrely novel rnettnoa. Instad of collectimg by cauortries, tiue-y begaji by caastrucMng a 'Hiisbaricai Pfcture Gallery.' Beglineing witda Queen Victoiia-, tltoey oollected every stamp wijtlhi hier portrait, a.nd ih as mamy colana as poesiible. Thia collectJicm covers eSsghb piagas oí a blaak ■b-O'Ok, 8 by 10 incfees. Ttoeea eight pases arO all mariseü' Ww. 1, and ih a coiTespoadiínig blaiik book under -Che samo numbar is oj complete biograpliy of tfoe Queen, and Ihe leaditng érente oí h&r reigsn. Tlnen there are 14 pages Öevoted tío George Washr itog-t,on, containing postage etamps ana reTenwe stamps beanimg lids pocti-iiii. Tliose pages are marked Ntoi 2, and üi tlhe oorreispondnig biograph5cal book ís a very fuii acco'unb oí WasIhÈngtion, mWtk a history of the Freadh and Indiian war, tihe RevwilTit'iioin, 'aaid tlie early luiebcury oí tho Unilt.ea Sraítes. Th.n an the same plaja follorvv the poii-t:raits of Dom Pedno, tbs EmparoT of Brazi'l, the Hiidialgo öf Mexico, etc., etc., each harinlg a page aiwl number in both boofes. "Botfc father aatí myselí are rueariy as maoh initerested as the boys anid when we gofc stamps witSi; a new porU-air we are all eojger to finid out ■wiicMii U repcreaemSte, hite hisbory, and all otiher thlnigs ocwmecteid with the miau and hiLs oomntiry. Usually it ís quáíbe eagy, Irart isa caas lika ttue Argemtbtoe sfcamps wa airo sbiü 'at sea' la BOm'O instancies ; but wO will not 6'ilve Up unitdl we lilave all the facts." - Hiarper's Eo'U'md Tatole.