The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-08-03
A Chapter on Advertisement.

selves OF the current OF passing events,
if they read over carefully all the news
and editorial matter. But there is
another and a more faithful chronicle
in it, which they seldom read and new
er study. Any one who wants to learn
human nature thoroughly, or to trace
the real condition of society, will find
ample material for both in the adver-
tising columns. It is department con-
Quoted by thousands of editors, so it
rarely happens that anything is omit
ted from it.
The great events that make up the
so-called news of the day, concern most
of us very remotely, and many of us
not at all. Whatever attention they
may attract to-day, they are sure to
be replaced by other novelties to NOR
row. But the advertisements contain
the history of those trihes to the public,
which nevertheless make up the sum
of individual existence.
Let us read over the advertising
colums Of reading New-York paper
for instance, and set down in regular
+, order, just what we find there:
Fifty-eight newcomers have enter
co the world, and forty.s people have
]. gone out of it to make room for them.
g Nine men advertise they have taken
J. to themselves wives, and three adver-
- tise that their wives had run away.
Seven people want boarding-houses,
t and thirty three boarding-houscs kept
c by agreeable families, in pleasant To-
IS calities, throw open their doors to re-
g ceive them. Seventeen highly re-
= spectacle families are in want Of wait
" ers and chambermaids, and seventy
It seven highly respectable chambermaids
W and walters are looking for just such
ID places. Twenty-Five cooks can give
lc the best of recommendations, and eight
families won't take them without
Sixteen merchants are selling at cost
and five pawn.brokers are buying a
g considerably less. Four men have
Of money to lend and forty want to Dor
ic row it. Five railroads and clever
steamboats, are running to carry pco
ID pie out of the city, and fourteen hotcl'
are standing to keep them in it. As
II ~ 900 acres of land are for sale, and si'
70 commissioners are ready to take ack
to nowledgemcnt Of the deeds.
C. Ninety seven ships and steamer
le are going to all parts of the world
nc eighteen have been there and CONF
OF back. Ten watchmakers ask people
H. u to keep time, and ten billiard saloons
in II and oyster cellars ask them to loose it
w Twelve men have failed, but thei
e. goods are to be sold at auction, ant
a eleven auctionecrs are going to sci
ID them. Thirteen partnerships have beel
or formed, and five broken off. Eigh
men say they want partners, but neve
l. l. seem to think of taking each other
II !. Six perfumes are endeavoring to sweet
~ - en- the air, and two gas companies arr
y, endeavoring to counteract them. Twen
he ty-nine people are making confection
he cry for parties, and nineteen do no
h. know where to look for daily bread
st Twenty seamstresses are wanted +
Id work their fingers to the bone, ant
r thirty-four volunteer to do it to keel
ans n themselves from starving. Five pee
~ ~ pie want information, and seven for
W. W. tune tellers will give it to them for 9
ed cents piece.
'st There are to be four professions ant
mt and parades, and nine sermons on tn
vanity Of worldly show. There ar
nc six theatres in successful operation
~ ~ and four hospitals wanting funds. Fiv
on concerts are to come off to night seN
"a. enteen lawsuits are to come on in tn
on morning. There are thirty-fve house
as for sale and forty to let, and yet 81
er people are in want of homes. Their
nd are eight schools for the instruction c
rk youth, and eighteen quackmedicine
1t for the deception of age. Six me
have discovered an infallible cure fo
ne an badness, and yet eight BARRIERS get thei
ire ire living by making wigs. There ar
.es seven fast horses for sale but only tw
en- people fast enough to buy them. Sew
So en- families have been robbed, but onl
Id one thief caught. Able-bodied youn
he men axious to serve their country, az
SC, shown the bright side of dark picture
en- and fourteen drummer boys are want
~, "; ed to help keep up the Illusion.
,,o ~ diamond bracelet, three Irish emigrants
irt two morocco pockct-books, a black tai
| rier, three casks of wine, a gold watcl
/ carpet bag, two children and pai
We of spectacles, are lost, and nothing ha
ou been found but an opera glass and
memorandum book
~ One hundred and seventeen grocer
40 ries are busy providing food for thei
,cr ~ fellow inhabitants three hundred an
nd eighty-one tailors, millinars. hatter'
de dressmakers, &C., are hard at wor
he at their clothes eight upholsterers ar
in furnishing their houses, and sixtee
ay coal companies are warming them
yve fourteen book sellers arc proyidin
''y them With interesting reading; eigl
~ ~ dancing masters, aud four music-mas
nm ers are attending to their education
ba' the polite arts twenty-three profitabl
speculations offer to make their 70
Ike tune, and thirty-two lawyers to tax
care of it afterwards. FIVE daguerre'
MT typists are anxious to obtain copy I