The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-06
QUAINT ADVERTISEMENTS.

The Pail Mall Gazette, speaking OF his
tory of advertisements from the earliest times,
says:
The following notice saw the hight rev
| years ago in PrincetoWn, Indiana, toufhai:
s'Wanted, two or three boarders OF oeeeht
! srripa such as % to bed at o'clock without
4 nine or cigar in their mouths. | wish them
| "a rise in time to wash their faces and comb
! their heads before breakfast. When they put
| ON their boots to draw their pants over them
and not to have them rumpled about their
knees, which is a sure sign OF aroWdy. when
| tbey it down to rest or warm by the fire, not
! to but their feet on the maatelpiece or bureau,
nor spit Oh the bread tray. And to pay their
| board weekly, monthly-as may be agreed
upon with a smile upon their faces, and they
| viii find me as pleasant as an opossum up
persimmon tree. OLD MECALLA.
Another advertisement quoted is delight
fully characteristic Of the fussy city magnate.
[. was issued, it is said by the mayor and
common council Of one Of our university
towns:
Whereas, Multiplicity of Dangers are
often incurred by Damage or outrageous &C
eide MS by fire, We, whose names are under
signed, have thought proper that the BENEFIT
Of an Engine, bought by us for the better
Distinguishing Of which by the accidents OF
the Almighty God may unto Us happen, to
make Rate to gather Benevolence Tor the
better propa8atins such useful Instruments
Then, was there ever more eXqulsltely
ludicrous disclaimer OF identity with an IN
diviiual who had rendered the name common
10 himself aud the advertiser unpleasantly
notorious than to the one which was posted
over all the dead walls in Dublin in 1871:
This is to certify that |, Daniel OFlan-
aean, am not the person that was tarred and
feathered by the Liberty Mob, on Tuesday
last, and am ready to give twenty guineas to
any one that will lay me fifty that am the
other man that goes by my name
Mr.. Sampson gives US many more adver-
tisements fully as eccentric and ridiculous
as the foregoing He gives, also, a number
exceedingly illustrative of past not very re-
mote, like this, which appeared in 1904:
"To be disposed of for the benefit of the
poor widow, a Blind Mans Walk in char
table neighborhood, the coming-in between
twenty-five and twenty-six shillings week
with dog well drilled and a staff in good re-
pair. A handsome premium will be eX-
pected. For further particulars apply at No.
40 Chisweil street"
Our author prints some curious samples of
advertisements concerning Grant wives; and
samples still more curious 0fthe retorts which
such advertisements sometimes provoke. We
cannot resist IuOun8 one u me It'ler, WHICH
appeared originally in the Connecticut
CG,run, 1906
"Thomas Hutchins has advertised that
have absented myself from his bed and board
and cautioned any persons against making
me any payment on his account now ad-
vertiso the public that the same Thomas
Hutchns came as a fortune-teller into this
town about year ago with recommends
ton which, with some artful falsehoods, in
duced me to marry him. OF the four wives
he had before me, the last he quarreled away;
how the other three came to their deaths he
can best inform the public; but l caution all
widows and maidens against marrying him,
be their desire for ma:rimony ever 50 strong
Should he make his advances under feigned
name, they may lock out for little, talkative,
feeble, neager, hatchet-faced fellow |
with spindle shanks and little warped in the |
back THANKFUL EUTCHINs.