Your fond reader, SEYMOUR U.P.

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y., Jan. 22d, 1897.


In reply to questions from Miss Lena Penn:

George du Maurier died in London, October 8, 1896, of heart disease.

There is a statue of Hans Christian Andersen in the market-place of
Copenhagen. He was the author of the famous Fairy Tales which have given
so much pleasure to so many millions of children.

If there are any statistics of the population of the earth since Adam, we
are unaware of them.

The population of the earth, estimated in 1891, was 1,487,900,000.

At the death of the Emperor Augustus, the population of the earth was
estimated at 54,000,000.

DEAR MR. EDITOR:

My father receives your little paper, THE GREAT ROUND
WORLD, every week. I like it real well, and all the rest of
the people and children I have let take one of the copies liked
it so well I let them take more copies. I think it a very nice
little paper, and wish you success. I send you the following
extract, taken from "Wit and Wisdom," showing that the X-rays