The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-28
STREET PICKINGs.


vented to sell everything under the sun
] but threshing machines and live stock,
/ but II remained for the brain of Indiana
| man to construct a machine of this kind
| that sells variety Of useful articles.
David f. s. Cook of IzoiIomo has just
| received letters patent on a nickel-in-the-
/ slot machine which sells stamps. writing
paper, envelopes and newspapers. He was
/ formerly employed a machinist in the
plate glass works at Kokomo and has been
! working his invention for some
! time 1t was first suggested to him when
/ Postmaster-General Wanamaker recon-
mended in his last annual report that ma
| chimes of this kind be used TO facilitate
| the postal service His invention has now
| been completed, patented and thoroughly
| tested. 1t will be placed i'm depots. railroad
trains, steamships. hotels, postoffice lob
| bies, stores and even on street corners.
The machine is an ingenious combination
| of slots and endless chains with cells, and
, worked automatically by electricity, or
| where electricity is not obtainable, by an
| actuating spring. The machine is almost
| human in it's performances and will do
business at the old stand" day night,
! during fair or foul weather, never disap-
! pointing a customer who has the proper
/ wherewith to drop in the slot for a daily
! newspaper. a postal card, a stamp, or
| sheet of paper and an envelope, either of
which he may happen to want The ma
! chine will hold and deliver 500 papers, 1000
stamps and quantity of writing paper,
| envelopes postal cards The machine
rejects anything but the proper coin in
| the proper conduit. In other words, you
/ can't fool the machine by dropping a pen
ny, the price of a postal card, in the
newspaper slot and get in return tlve-
cent morning paper. The machine is too
smart for that. 1t will reject the penny
and refuse to let go Of newspaper until
the proper amount is placed in the proper
slot. Neither can the machine be beaten
by means of using a coin with a hole in
it and a string attached to pull it out. An
automatic gate at the end of the coin
chute or conduit, closes and prevents the
recovery of the penny. An automatic lock
also renders it impossible to get two pur-
! chases for the price of one.
As a matter of fact. the machine is al
ways automatically locked. and to unlock
| II the purchaser must insert the proper
coin in the proper slot. After every pur-
chase it locks itself again. When the
stock of particular article is exhausted
slide door closes down over the entrance
to that coin conduit
1t is decidedly unlike any slot machine
ever made, and the inventor says it is
quite possible to even make change TO the
public The method used in making change
the street car driver. The purchaser would
drop in the proper slot a quarter or half
dollar or other coin, and receive in return
a package containing the same amount Of
money in smaller change
The machine does business on the strict
~ cash-in-advance system, and Will re-
spond to every demand made upon it in the
proper manner. until the stock on hand
is exhausted, when it will close up shop,
automatically, and refuse to do business
until the stock is replenished. Each ma
chine has capacity for selling three or four
different articles at the same time.
There's good story being told among
the members of one OF the fashionable
presbyterian congregations in the city. It's
on their pastor and it happened this way;
He is very strict disciplinarian in his
family and one Of the most important
rules laid down by him to his circle Of
small and spirited children is a proper re-
spect for the devotions. The family wor-
ship must be regularly attended by each
member of the family and the blessing at
the table must be listened to with solemn
mien and restrained mirth. No levity is
tolerated and woe TO be TO the little one
who giggles while the blessing is being
asked at the table or the evening prayer
delivered in the library
was sadly shattered the other morning at
the breakfast table and even the pastors
disturbed countenance showed faint indi-
cations of a smile. He is a regular at
tendant az the breakfast table in order to
set a good example of regularity to the
children. The other night the pastor was
called to the bedside of a sick member Of
the congregation and lost nearly the whole
nights sleep. AS a consequence he over
cla inns no mo- np at
tired himself hurriedly as he heard the
breakfast bell sound. Down he rushed.
buttoning his vest as he came, and not
vet more than half awake. AS he entered
the dining-room the family just sit
ting down. The father walked TO his seat.
sat down, and after a moment of silence
his eyes still heavy with sleep, he slowly
began: Now | lay me down to sleep
there was a suppressed giggle from the
little ones and a suspicious cough from the
handsome lady behind the coffee urn. Five
minutes later when message of solemn
thankfulness had been sent heavenward.
a general burst forth from around
the table in which the pastor was COM
PEELED TO join And now every morning
when the blessing is asked there IL sus-
picious and dangerous smile around that
circle of little mouths. And they Just can't
help II, no matter how hard they try to
forget.
Has the Lenten season purified the world?
Is sin now purged from all this wide crea-
ton?
It may be-but the past would tend to
show. it's
But an instance of suspended animation.
He-"And now ] suppose YOU will lay
aside your sack cloth and ashes?"
She--"No. saques haven't been fashion
able this season. you know. and we don't
have ashes in the natural gas belt
Jiglets-''well. 7 know one man who has
been able TO pull through the stringency
all right"
Jaglets-"Who is THAR
Jiglets-"Payne, the dentist"
Now once more to dissipation,
Pleasures wild and midnight revel
Pious mien will be abandoned
For the world. flesh and the devil