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Show Not the Picture She Wanted. A curions incident occurred at the London Royal Military exhibition recently. re-cently. In the building there is an auto-matio auto-matio machine which supplies a photographic photo-graphic portrait of some "celebrity" or other to any one who "puts a penny in the slot." An elderly and iiftitrouly lady, being under the impression that this was the new contrivance for taking photographs photo-graphs of which she had heard so much, duly inserted a bronze coin in the aperture, aper-ture, then posing herself before the machine ma-chine and assuming her most pleasing expression, calmly awaited the result. After an interval of a few seconds the result came; but, alas! when the lady oned the drawer the photograph she extracted therefrom displayed, not her own form and features, but the figure of a female acrobat in full professional costume |