EDITOR.

     DEAR EDITOR: 

I am very anxious to know if you can tell me who the Turkish Consul in New York and the United States Consul in Constantinople are, and how to address a letter to each.  I read your paper every week, and enjoy it very much.

HARRY A.S.

DEAR HARRY: 

The Turkish Consul in New York is Chefik Bey.  Address your letter: 

His Excellency Chefik Bey,
Turkish Consulate,
24 State Street,
New York.

The United States Consul in Constantinople is Mr. Luther Short.  Address your letter to him: 

The Honorable Luther Short,
American Consulate,
Constantinople,
Turkey.

EDITOR.

DEAR EDITOR: 

Our teacher reads to us your nice paper, and we like it very much. 
Will you tell us something more about the Freeville Junior
Republic, and what did they do with the insane Empress, Carlotta of
Mexico?

                                     Your unknown friend,
                                                RAYMOND C.
     CHARLESTOWN, S.C., June 9th, 1897.

DEAR RAYMOND: 

You will find something about the Junior Republic in the next number of the Magazine.

About the ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico, we have no fresh news for you. 
          
                                      EDITOR

DEAR EDITOR: 

Our teacher in the Germantown Academy reads to us the paper which you call THE GREAT ROUND WORLD.  THE GREAT ROUND WORLD and Harper’s Round Table I consider the best papers for boys of which I have any knowledge.  I would like to know whether the whale could walk on land, as other animals do.  My father told me that the whale was in its former condition a land animal, which had changed its home to the water.

                      Yours respectfully,
                                                FRANZ W.
     GERMANTOWN, PA., June 14th, 1897.

DEAR FRANZ: 

Whales are in many respects the most interesting and wonderful of creatures.  It would seem that at one time they may have been land creatures, and able to walk on land as other animals do.  That is, however, so very remote that we have no record of it.  Scientific men base their arguments in favor of this theory on the facts that whales are not true fish, but are indeed land mammals adapted to living in the water.

Their fore-limbs, though reduced to mere paddles, have all the bones, joints, and even most of the muscles, nerves, and arteries of the human arm and hand.  The rudiments of hind-legs are found buried deep in the interior of the animal, and in the young whales bristles about the chin and upper lip give evidence that the whales have once been covered with hair like other mammals.