CUKIOUS AUTOMATIC STORIES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1662, 14 September 1887, Page 2

CUKIOUS AUTOMATIC STORIES

Ao English firm baa auppliad the streets with convenient apparatus where school ohildron oan buy ohooolate stioka aud batternats. by dropping a penny In an open alit. London is filled with theße shops, and they are found everywhere m Great Brit un. America has the aotomatfo eoales by which one can weigh himself by dropping a 6 cant piece In a, little hole; bat the Englishmen his extended thin devioe, BO now the children on the Btraet can atop at the corner, drop m a penny, and a little drawer will fly out, and m it you find a cake of chocolate or a piece of buttetacotoh. the desire ia regulated by the place where m ihe copper la deposited. To the right for chocolate, to the left for butterecotch. Nor are tha ohildren the only ones cared I for. The ducle can drop m a penny at a certain box and out will come a cigarette What a boon for an impoverished dude with only one pant, but who is too proud to go Into a cigur shop and aeK for one clgaretta ! By thh device he Is relieved of all impertinent looks or knowing smiles by the self -sufficient tobacconist for he I has only to face an iron frame which gladly responds to his triflipg oopper. The proprietor of these automatic apparatuses knows, also, how often a pedestrian or traveller wants a theet of paper and envelope, or a postal card, and he has a number of stands filled with stamped envelopes, containing a eheet of paper, which fall into the hands of a purchaser, who deposit a 2 ponoe, or a postal card on the recilot of a penny, Anton? atio ucaWa ■eem to have found their way to the Continent, but as yet England enjoys the monopoly of the automatic shopkeepers.