THURSDAY 3rd MAY 1888

Today a most excellent Invention has occurred to me regarding umbrellas, that is to make the stick out of corrugated metal - a corrugated metal pipe in fact. It is an excellent thing I believe and I shall work it out at the first opportunity.

If Mr Samuel Fox could make half a million pounds by simply hollowing or grooving the metal rails, so as to increase the weight and portability of the article. I shall get something worth having if I groove and hollow the stick itself.

Office inventing etc.