The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-12-12
CuriOsiiics Of Civilization.


peared in England, being the reproduction
of various articles written for the Quarterly
Reviews by DR.. Andrew Wyntsr, which af.
fords much curious information on subjects
of every days experience. Speaking Of
newspaper advertisements, for instance, Dr..
Wynter has been able TO trace sHch adver-
tisements further back than 1862, when q
solitary one appeared, while on the Gath o
May, 1866, the London Times alone con.
tanned two thousand FIVE hundred and seven.
ty-fve. The earliest advertisement, appear
to have been of books, one of which bore
the title of "GOspel Marrow" and anothe,
"a few Sighs from He'll, or the groans Of q
damned Soul" The proprie,ors of patent
i medicines were not long behind the authors
or publishers in thus communicating with
the public. Even the King used the same
medium N recover lost dogs. The year OF
the great plague appears to have brought
profit to the newspapers of the day, various
antidotes being advertised, including can
excellent electuary against the plague, to be
drank at the Dragon, Cheapside, at sixpence
a pint" 1t was not until the revolution OF
1888, however, that advertisements became
Of general character, and revealed, as tn ey
do now, the pursuits and character of the
people.
In 1892 twenty six new journals were es.
tablished, and from that time advertisements
rapidly multiplied, among them some of
black boys for sale, or as having run away,
though bearing the names of their proprie-
tors on their collars. For instance, one is
advertised as wearing a collar about his
neck with this inscription, "Lady Bromfeld's
black, in Lincon's. inn fields" OF modern
advertisements, DR.. Wynter, supplies many
charO cteriStc specimens, from those of the
famed George Robins, who candidly admits
that the superb estate he has to sell has two
drawbacks, "the litter of the rose leaves and
the noise Of the nightingales," to those OF
Messfs. Moses & Son, who thus proclaim
the promptness with which they can dis.
count domestic grief:
tsWhen business orders are received
From parties painfully bereaved,
Five minutes time is all we ask
To execute the mournal task;'
or those of Professor Holloway, who spends
in England alone. thirty thousand pounds
sterling annually in commentator of his
pills and ointment.
In another chapter, entitled the "London
Commssarat," DR.. Wynter maks some
marvellous but truthful statements respect.
ing the mode in which civilization has per.
fected the means of supplying London and
suburbs with food and drink. Take the ar.
ticle of fish for instance. In the proper
season, one hundred tons OF herrings are
sent from Yarmouth every day to London by
railroad, making twelve thousand tons year
ly. Four thousand toas OF mackersl and
other fish are sent annually to Billingsgate
by railroad from the South coast of England.
The South. Western railway sends up annu.
ally four thousand tons of mackerel and
other fish, the gatherings of the South coast.
The North. Western collects over night the
"catch" from Ireland, Scotland and North.
East coast of Englaed, three thousand five
hundred and seventy eight tons, principally
of salmon. while the Great Northern delv.
ers three thousand two hundred and forty.
eight tons of like sea produce. The Great
Western takes up the harvest of the Cor.
nish and DeVonshire coasts, chiefly macker.
ell and pllchards, to the amount OF one thou
sand FIVE hundred end sixty tons in the year;
and the Brighton and South Coast railway
conveys fifteen thousand bushels Of oysters,
besides four thousand tons Of other fish
Smells and eels are brought in Ouch boats.
Dutch eels, Dr.. Wynter says, "constitute
much of the soup which people too hungry
to be critical mistake for ox.tail or calves.
head" Thirty thousand Holsters are receiv.
ed in London every night during the season.
To provide all the cockneys with a cut at
ga joint" million and half of sheep,
more than quarter of million OF oxen,
and calves and pigs in proportion, are sold
ia Smi,hfipld during the year and slaughter.
ed in London, and about thirty.esht thou
sand tons of country killed meat are brought
up in addition, by railroad, to the metropolis.
The quantity of game aud wild birds which
there find market are equally surprising.
After few successful buttues in the High
lands, it is not at all unusual for one London
firm to receive FIVE Thousand head of game,
and as many as twenty thousand to thirty
thousand larks are often sent up to the mar
ket together. Ostend sends annually six
hundred thousand rabbits. ireland sends
large focks of plovers, and quails are
brought from Egypt and the South of Eu.
rope. Some seventeen thousand quails on
one occasion descended upon London via
Liverpool, whittier they had been brought
from the Roman Campagna. OF the two
million fowls that every year Aank the boil.
ed tongues on the tables Of the residents OF
London, by far the greater number are drawn
from the counties Of Surry and Sussex.
Ireland also sends much poultry. Not less
than fourteen hundred tons Of chickens,
geese and ducks are taken to London anuu.
ally by the Great Western railway.
In washing these ediblss down their
threats the LOndOners consume, ia addition
to wine, nearly tAossand mi1;on tumbler.