Colonel Ernst thinks that the cannon have been carried off one by one by this man, and sold to some junk-dealer as old metal.

It is supposed that he must have had some accomplices to help him lift the cannon into his cart, and that he carefully steadied them so that they would not rumble and betray him, covered them up with tarpaulin, and drove out with them, under the very nose of the sentry, returning to fetch another at the next favorable opportunity.

Word has been sent to every junk-dealer, in hopes of finding the Monterey cannon before it has been put into the melting-pot.

GenieH. Rosenfeld.

LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.

     Dear editor: 

Is it asking too much of you, or is it out of your line of work to give your readers some information in regard to the old library at Tel-el-Amarna; and something about the present reigning family of Egypt, as to its origin and its political relations to the European powers?

If you have not room for a note on these, where could I obtain best
account of them?

(Mrs.) A.H.B.V.

Minneapolis, Minn., May 7th, 1897.

DEAR MADAM: 

Tel-el-Amarna is the ruin of a residence of Amenophis IV. in Central Egypt.  In the winter of 1887-88 there were discovered there about three hundred clay tablets, covered with cuneiform inscriptions which have since been deciphered.

They contain the diplomatic correspondence of Kings of Babylon, Assyria, Palestine, and other countries of Western Asia with the Egyptian court.

The word library applies not only to books, but is often used to indicate a collection of inscribed tiles or bricks.

2.  Mehemed Ali was made Viceroy of Egypt and Pasha of Three Tails in 1806.

He resigned in favor of his son Ibrahim Pasha in 1849.

Ibrahim died the same year, and was succeeded by Mehemed Ali’s favorite grandson, Abbas Pasha, who died in 1854, and was succeeded by his brother Said.

In 1863 Said died, and was succeeded by his nephew Ismael, who promoted the Suez Canal.

In 1866 the Sultan of Turkey, who is the nominal ruler of Egypt, made this family hereditary Viceroys of Egypt.

In 1879 Ismael abdicated in favor of his son Mohammed Tewfik, who died in 1892 and was succeeded by his son Abbas.

Under this family, Egypt, though nominally tributary to Turkey, has enjoyed all the advantages of an independent kingdom.

Editor.

Dear editor: 

Will you be kind enough to answer the following questions in an
early issue of your Magazine, and greatly oblige.

1.  Is a Japanese born in this country a citizen?

2.  When may a United States Senator have two votes upon one
question?

A subscriber.