ed der, so that the loops by which the mail bag is sus- suggested that the mail bags might be caught, or up, and imparts its momentum to it, so that the bag pended may slip freely off its rear end, and permit snatched in a twinkling, asthe train thundered on to be delivered passes out of the rear… … on the train has a stout net on it cennected to the cylinder by rings tance toward the rear end of the cylinder. and detached ‘rom its pos‘tion; remaining in the net | mail to be delivered, and the bag rests, or is sup- both by its own weight and the pressure exerted on | ported on parallel rods,…
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