Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-24
Alefanoria 0axette
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY2l.
YoIlF Gifts DO tlie Bride.

YOuF Gifts DO the Bride.
MIR. JOHNSTON WILL TAKE EN- OFF HER HAND !
ArAFAIE CASH VALUATION.
The following advertisement has appeared
daily ioI moaiha in oGc Of thu New York pa.
lpcrs. nd was upon its first appearance hailed as
a iit OF irony by thc World:
tpUrLICATE WEDDING PRESENT;s
81 bought Or exchanged. Address
!. L. JOHNSTON, .JowolcT,
80 D1wary
1t is 9nuiuc business advertisement, hcG.
ever. A Wr~ld reporter called upon Mr. John
ston yesterday at his store. at tic corner OF
Broomo street. and found him willing to talk.
& jcwecr by trade, Mr.. Johnston is man o.
maDy resources and one who prides himself
upon his knowledge of human nature. Hcis,
moreover, man OF good education, and enter
tainod Walt Whitman ct his house when lie
/ was in this city. ln aDsWCr to the reporter
inquiries Mr. Johnston said that The jeWclry
business IS dull just now but the traffic 10 "du
picato Weddilg presents is particularly lively.
1 lie receives numerous answers to his advertise
! mcnt, some OF them from people we'll known 10
| society; he visits them at their houb S, appraS
| ca their goods and buys them, ii they wish tc
SELL
"Mnat do you pay for goods and how p ask
cd the reporter.
"Eor silvcrwarc" WAS the reply, Il pay hy
tho ounce, say from 81 TO S. an ounce. For
jcwclry pay What consider q fair market
price, according to the value oi tho articles.
What do 10 with my purchases? Why,
sci! them again, either 20 The customers OF my
store or TO dealers at q s!lall advance on The
purchase price, and always lDr less than they
could possibly be bought for in the regular wa},
Here, for example, is a libu silver kettle J
bought ut half its actual iaIuc and put in the
window. Yesterday one OF the firm that made
it called in and offered TO buy it at my own
price. lie said he did not want it kicking
around iowa with his mark OF it. Here is
lot OF silver w..ich recently figured among the
presents at fashionable wedding. 1t cost
$3.50 end weighs $50 ounces. paid $500 for
it, and | will sci! it for $3.50. And here IL .
solid silver tea set that cost 5000 and can sell
ii at 800 aud mako a good profit.
''What class Of people sell their welding
presents?'
"All classes, especially in thcs, times. Money
is too valuable to be locked up in useless silver
kettles and urns that you have To pay Tor keeI-
ing ID e safe deposit company Whenever J
read OF stylish wedding somewhere look at
the list Of presents and know that shall
have customer before Long, They ali 2laIm
to sell only duplicate presents, OF course. 1t IL
mono Of my business to ASK where tho dup
Gates arc. | buy whatever can sell at profit
VOLTA tout. OF course, my business is oonGden
tia!: am as silent a. the tomb, have to b.,
for mutual conf nncr is nh essential OF the
business.
A recent purchase OF Mr.. John5ton's IL
beautiful pearl necklace which, he says, recent
ly adorned the neck OF bride whose marriage
was q society sensation; another Is par OF
bracelets, valued in tho market at : 200, and
still another is an carat damonu, Tor |hlch
he asks 5000 You have no idea ol the OK
tent of tho business" said he, showing thcsa
articles :-"Why there are iamlIics in this
city who tevc been living ever since
tho panic OF 1913 uron their plate end
jeRclry, and keeping Up Appearances. too,
Sec that silver pitcher; that was presented
years ago 70 well known gentleman ny
4, T. Stewart, VIM. T. hsor, Brown H!nll
crs nrd olhrgs lie died some time ago and
tho rtehcr passed into the hands o! somn rcla
tiycs or friends who got har up, and 'crc 1t Is
| will sell ii for $3.50. There on The side wHrr
the names Of Stewart and Astor. / erased them,
and if sou want to present it 10 President llayc%
will engravc his name on It and give 1t I" you
cheap
"IIow long haa the traffic i'll wedding pres
| cDts being going On =
mot more than five or six years. lis mnrH
| general now than ever. Money is in dcman';
| plate and paste taku tho place OF silver and
| diamonds; nobody is any the wiser and several
| people arc SO much the richer. This Is praH
| tlcal age, ana this Ous'a"Ss grows o'' W III
practlCallty.
| While Mr.. Johnston Was talking 4 District
messenger brought him pink and poriumcd
/ ~, t,1IInlilIin
| cnvclopc he glanced at the note, put 1t hastily
! in his rocket ard remarked quietly, And !h"
cry i, still they come. "-Nc1g YorE |forld.
| PHYSICIANS ON TEMPERANCE. .-Ihc Mon
lrcal Witness says: Representatives, OF 'hc
medical Paternity have been IN council at 20
ronto end enc of the questions which they
hayc been considering has been the evil oi ln'
tempcranca. They scem TO DO impressed WIZ
Tho truth of the proVcrb that charity should
hcein at home aud 50 they began there, sew
cral Of them saying that whskcy was the bSnc
Of the profession, and that 1t was lust1uuicul''
in carving off more OF their number than any
disease. 4 committee was appointed 10 drait
a resolution cmbodyiug the IDEAS OF the counc'i
nm the subject. The medical men Of Montreal
have louc aco expressed themselves dccldch'y
against the use Of stimulants over their 'wh
SIGNATURES. But that was hardly so voluntary
an expression of opinion as this. Then their
signatures to the document were secured Dy
personal canvass; now, assembled IN c'nncl'
among themselves, the medical men 0i Ontario
are 40 imprcssed with the evils 0i lntcnlpc!an"1
that they originate action III tho matter.
CMhLL HAMS. ticrces Maryland brand
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