e legal holidays?" was quite beyond
their understanding.

"The day on which George Washington landed and crossed the Delaware";

"The day on which the President takes his seat"; and

"July _Forth_ was the end of the _warre_," were three of the brilliant
suggestions.

I think we ought all of us to be very much obliged to Mr. Roosevelt for
preventing such ignorant men as these from being set in authority, and
having the difficult duties of the police to perform.

GENIE H. ROSENFELD.

LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.

DEAR EDITOR:

I have been taking THE GREAT ROUND WORLD for two weeks,
and think it fine.

I thought I would ask you a few questions, as I knew you would
be glad to answer them. Is England in favor of Turkey or Greece?
and will United States ever help Cuba?

Yours respectfully,
LEONARD O.
SOMERVILLE, MASS.

DEAR LEONARD:

You have asked us the two questions that are puzzling the wisest heads of
Europe and America.

Europe wants to know what England will do, and with whom she is siding;
and all America wants to know whether we are going to help Cuba.

THE GREAT ROUND WORLD only claims to tell its readers what has
happened. The Editor does not profess to be a prophet, and able to
foretell events.

We are glad to answer any questions that we can, but you have given us two
difficult conundrums that we cannot solve. Better luck next time.

THE EDITOR.

INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.

NEW ROAD TO ELECTRICITY.--A paper was read recently before the
New York Electrical Society on the subject of a new method of producing
electricity.

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The discoverer of this process is Mr. Willard E. Case. He has been working
for ten years on this subject, and recently showed the results of his
labors to the scientific men assembled to hear him.

Mr. Case claims that his discovery, when it is worked out to its
conclusion, will mean a new motor or driving force to do the world's work,
in place of steam, and he insists that the new force will be much cheaper
than any now in use.

Mr. Case has found a means of generating electricity without the use of
heat. It has long been known that there was a terrible waste of electrical
energy through the use of heat. The method of producing it by galvanic
batteries was imposs