The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-06
~BUYING SOAP.n
Some Information for the Boys.


"You see, gentlemen, that I place
this $40 bill in this envelope, this IS
greenback In this cover, and this 50 note,
issued by the United States Govern
ment, in this third and last inclosure."
Thus spake partially red-haired
young man who wore stove-plpe hat
and checkered pants, cut tight, with
large "spreads" at the bottom, as he
stood in mud an inch deep at the ap-
proach of the Charleston bridge. He
was surrounded by quite large crowd
of men and boys, but there was not q
policeman in sight.
"You see, gentlemen" he continued,
"this is the manner in which intro
duce the famous soap manufactured by
the 'Multum in Parvo Works. and
which is guaranteed to eradicate from
clothing anything of dirt that the gar
ments may eontain-such as grease,
dust, oil, ink, pitch, paint, tar or var
nish. have now right before your eyes
placed in three envelopes sum OF good,
sound currency of the United States.
aggregating in value ST. In each OF
those envelopes beside there is a cake OF
the celebrated 'Multum in Parvo soap
worth at any retail drug store fifty
in this crowd the nerve to offer me 81. so
for the three envelopes? Remember,
this is done simply to advertise the artl-
Gle of which am agent"
| There was no immediate response
made by any one in the crowd to this
| eloquent appeal. People are naturally
suspicious and man hates to be the
first one to lead off in scheme that he
| Of h INo
on a "skin" basis. At last tall, hun
cry, far-away-eyed-looking specimen
fished around, and got out trade dol
lar and a ifty-cent piece and handed it
up, Le ~ s-s.-- F.
"There you are, my friend; open
| your envelope and see how you have
4 been rewarded for your nerve. T"
| z The crowd pushed eagerly around the
gawky-looking fellow, and could have
4 kicked themselves with rage when they
capacious cowhide pocket-book seven
teen easily earned dollars. 81.
It was at this juncture that the World
young man came on the scene. An &C
quaintance in the crowd told him what
had occurred.
| "Never mind, friends" said the
spread bottom pants young man, rapidly
producing another roll Of greenback'
from his pocket, "you shall have an
other chance; the company by whom
I am employed is not mean-so herr
goes again /" ....
I And he put up another three envelopes
supposed to contain another SIT. Blu
although the young man was very +" fly
and would make tolerably fair presti
digitateur his hands were not as quicl
as the eagle eye Of the Worlds repre-
sentative. The dizzy young fellow thi
time instead of placing the bills in tn
envelopes with the soap, adritly palmet
them-that is, crushed them in the pain
of his right hand, after he had made be
lieve to place them in the envelopes.
"Pn give you another chance, gentle
men, but not on quite as easy terms a
before. Now who'll give me $40 for thi
SIT and the three cakes of Multum i
Parvo?'' Immediately three or fou
persons signifed their willingness t
negotiate The tight-pantalooned youn
man grabbed the first ten dollars h
could reach, and handed over the en-
velopes. - -i' -t+t' &.
"That closes the sales for to-day
gents thank you," and he moved of
The man who had invested opened hi
envelopes. There was nothing in ther
but the. 9 Mu1tum in Parvo." The ma
swore. Where was the hungry lookin
wretch who had drawn the first prize ?
He was also gone-he was "capper.
H. Let the fool killer come this way an
operate on all those gentlemen who wis
to buy SIT for $10.-M Y. World.
PROFESSOR THURsroN has made es
periments on the strength of SO differ
eent alloys, in the laboratory of Steven
Institute of Technology, in New York
The quantity of copper in the alloy
varied from 10 to 80 per cent, and tina