You must not let your sympathies cloud your judgment.

EDITOR.




INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.


By means of slot-boxes one may buy gum or postage-stamps, be weighed, or
have his picture taken.

A schoolboy of St. Louis has recently invented a new and practical form
of this popular machine.

The Martin paper slot-box is to be used upon street cars and railway
trains for the sale of daily papers.

It has separate compartments for each morning daily, with movable
name-slips so that the one box may serve for the sale of both morning
and evening papers.

Though small and neat, the box will hold forty-five papers.

By inserting a penny and pushing a button, any paper desired may be had.
The boxes are so arranged that five cents will be necessary to work the
button for Sunday papers.