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TIP TOP WEEKLY, IP lOPWEEKLY. AN IDEAL PUBLICATION FOR THE AMERICAN YOUTH ”” NEW YORK, MAY 21, 1898. Terms to Tip Top Weekly Mail Subseribers. | (PORTAGH FRER,) 8 months - - - +--+ + - 68e.| Oneyenr - - + - - + = $2.50 4month® - + = - + = ‘> 85. (2 copies one yerr - - - = 4.00 6 months - - - - += - $1.55 | 1 copy two yenrs - ~ - - 4.0 How To SEND Monkry.— By post-office or express money order registered letter, bank check or driit, at our risk. At your own rtak If sent by- postal note, currency, coin, or postage stamps in ordinary letter. Recki prs.— Receint of your remittance is aclnowledyed by proper change of neonbher on your label. If not correct you have not been properly credited. ane shold let ws Lnow at once, ‘To CLuR Raisuns.—Upon request we will send sample copies to ald you finobtalning subscribers. All letters shonkid be addressed to STREET & SMITH’S TIP TOP WEEKLY. 238 William St., New York City. One Hundred Prizes! se FF A WATCH FOR A POSTAL CARD se Ut Why do you Consider the Tip Top WEEKLY the Best Boys’ Paper of To-day? | Because - - - ~ - - ? To celebrate the ONE HUNDREDTH ISSUE of the Trp Top WEEKLY, the publishers offer one hundred wartanted nickel watches for the one hundred best answers to the question iven above. Replies must be written on Postal Cards, and the sentence should not contain more than ten words commencing with the word “Because.” 10 8 10 Warranted y Z Warranted Nickel §=£f Nickel Watches. no \ ° Watches. et. a ~~ This contest will close Saturday, May 21st, 1898. Postals should be addressed to | “HUNDREDTH ISSUE CONTEST,” TIP TOP WEEKLY, STREET & SMITH, New YORK CITY. “TYPICAL AMERICAN NAVAL VESSELS "—THE HALF-HOLIDAY. NO. 14 ‘this number of the Tip Top Weekly. Calks With «6 Cip Top Readers. The ‘‘Hundredth Issue’’ prize contest ends with The vast number of postal cards received necessitates sev- eral weeks of careful examination, and it may be sometime before the result can be announced. The names of the lucky winners of the one hundred watches will be published as speedily as possible, and we ask the contestants to possess their soul in _ patience, The present series narrating Frank Merriwell’s adventures in the Maine woods will be followed by another of engrossing interest. The details will be announced in due time. Have you followed the lead of the majority of our readers and purchased a Tip Top Weekly binder? The cost is only 35 cents, and this small sum will enable you to preserve your favorite pub- lication in a neat, durable form. Correspondence. es ey A. K., St. Louis, Mo.—Yes, there is a foreign coin called ‘‘Widow's Mite.’’ It is a very minute piece, being but three-tenths of an inch in diame- ter, and weighing about Io grains. nothing is discernible; on the other isa mint monogram, very much resembling the letter X, with a line crossing it near the top. Whether it is Samaritan, Syriac, or Greek, is not known, but there is no doubt that it belongs to the age shortly before and after the advent of Christ, and its size seems to prove it to be a lepton—the smaijilest of Greek and Syriac coins. The ‘‘Widow’s Mite’’ did not bear the head of any ruler of ancient days. C. L., Wilmington, Del.—1. Your parents know what is best for you, consult with them. 2. The life of a sailor is full of hardships, and not much pleasure. If boys who are bent on going to sea could only take a trial trip for a few months and - work the same as an ordinary sailor, we venture to say that they would be content to be a land lubber. “A life on the bounding wave’’ is well enongh. to read about, but the charm 1s lost when put to ‘practical use. . R. W. A., Janesville, Wis.—The Argentine Republic was discovered in 1517, and settled by the Spaniards in 1553. In 1816 if became independent of Spain, and in 1835 De Rosas, @ successful soldier against the Indians, was elected Dictator of Buenos Ayres, which he held till he was defeated by Urquiza, when he fled to England. Under its present consti- tution the Republic is composed of fourteen provinces and nine territories, with a large seaboard on the east coast of South America, On one side | CORniclooo S CO)