rmness to corners that few amateurs have been able to attain.

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This patent is a small metal clasp which is laid over the joint and
pressed firmly on every side of it.

It is easily applied, and should be used by all carpenters.

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This attachment for bicycles seems to be a very useful and sensible one.

It is intended for use on newspaper routes, and is made with a wire
attachment over the front wheel in which the papers can be carried.

Newspaper dealers have to arrange the delivery of the daily papers into
routes, much in the same way that the postmen do the letters they carry,
and a great many boys are employed to carry these papers about.

It takes a long time to walk over the route, and it would save the
newspaper dealers a great deal of time if they could find a better means
of delivering their papers, than the employment of so many small boys.

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With the newspaper rack for bicycles the dealer himself will be able to do
more than half the work, and save himself money, as well as the anxiety
lest his boys are not doing their work properly.

G.H.R.

Letters From Our Young Friends.

DEAR EDITOR:

I am glad that the Spaniards have other wars to attend to, so
that they will let Cuba alone, and so that Cuba can have a
government of its own and have the island of Cuba. I hope that
if the Spaniards do not stop fighting Cuba that troops of the
United States will go and fight the Spaniards out in a hurry.

My sister takes your GREAT ROUND WORLD, and I have been reading
it, and enjoy it very much.

I wish that you would tell us how the flying machine is getting
along. Yours truly,

EDITH S.
ONEONTA, N.Y., April 17th, 1897.

MY DEAR EDITH:

Up to the time of answering your very welcome letter we have no fresh news
of the flying machine. As soon as we hear anything that we are sure is
true we will tell you. EDITOR

DEAR EDITOR:

I wish you would get a pattern of the kite. My teacher reads
your paper, and I am very interested in the newspaper. We have
it in school. I was seven years old on Sunday. Please put this
letter in the newspaper. It is the first one I have ever
written. Yours truly,

HOWELL G.
BALTIMORE, MD.