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TOO ATTRACTIVE.—We have heard of a country where the mice were so plenty that the inhabitants were compelled to supply them with large quantities of provisions, to keep them from devouring the food placed on the tables for the people: and we are much inclined to the opinion, that our only method of securing the safe-conveyance of our paper to subscribers, and especially to exchange contemporaries, is to send extras enough to supply all the post-office clerks in the country. We can assure our friends who have sent their papers in exchange, that ours has been promptly sent,—carefully enveloped and directed,—from the commencement: yet we learn with regret, that only a part of them reach their destination. If editors will inform us, by mail or otherwise, what numbers of the Scientific American are missing, we will immediately send them. Our custom is to send duplicate copies to all who insert our advertisement, although our exchange list is already much larger than we can afford to continue.