The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-11

hall. where he will 'break the doors of
hell with n gospel jimmy"
| Quite as funny in different: way is the
| advertisement in western paper Tor a
iaundress who will take her pay in les
sons on the guitar
As the Americans are the most humor-
| Gus, SO they are the most enterprislng OF
| advertisers. Nothing IS sacred to them.
and some funny stories are told of their
| ingenuity Down at Coney island. when
all eyes were turned seward one evening
to admire the reflection of gorgeous
horizon innumerable sloops cruising up
and down the beach with staring adver-
tisements painted IN their sails.
A traveller, in an account of a trip to the
Pacific coast. says: Everywhere
found traces of the ubiquitous sign
painter, who IN many Instances must
have i'm periled his life to accomplish his
purpose. l saw his handiwork high up
on the colossal escarpment of Echo cam
yon again on the som Der granite cliffs of
Weber; farther west on the arid rocks of
the Hum boidt, even on the forlorn wig
vans of the Plutes. Struggling over the
fallow desert, and continuously over the
Sierras. aid down the golden vallev of
the Sacramento, sign after sign. high
above the level. and often in positions the
manner of reaching was mex
plicable. and the first i'm pulse of indigna-
ltOD was Iult1Sdtbu ny auInlTdl1On IOr tn6
pluck and impudence of the man whose
name below most of the Inscriptions IN
dicate how com pletely he had done his
work. l sought him out on my return
to New York, and found him neither
penitent nor apologize.
g 4 guess I've decorated more nature
than any other man in the United States,
be said. and what of it? l guess a
pretty bit of lettering is heap nicer
than an ugly rock. Ive walked six times
up and down the Hudson, painted on
rocks while standing up to my neck in
water. ana I've put the name OF Vitality
Bltters on Lookout mountain.
- Why, my partner painted Kaiser Bit
ters on the pyramid of Cheops, and just
after the war | stuck up Buffalo Liver
Pills in letters three feet high around old
Fort Sumter. got the soldier in charge
pretty full and then went to work and
finished my job before he sobered up.
But that little business nearly got me in
to trouble. 1t raised an awful Gust and
l left Charleston in a hurry.
The Spaniards are generally considered
slow race, yet here is an advertisement
in a Spanish paper which for enterprise
is quite worthy of an American:
This morning the Almighty summon
ed away the jeweler. Siebald Illmaga,
from his shop to another and a better
world. The undersigned, his widow, will
weep upon his tomb. as will his two
daughters, Hilda and Emma, the former
Of whom is married and the latter still
disengaged.
1.-The funeral will take place tomorrow.
His disconsolate widow, Veronique Ill
maya.
Up. S.-This bereavement will not in.
terrupt our employ ment, which will be
carried on as usual. only our place OF
business will be removed from No. 4
LESSEE de Leintururs to No.4 Rue de Mis-
sionaur, as our landlord has raised his
rent"
Equally business like is this advertise
ment from an English paper: ITO be dis
posed OF for the benefit of poor widow,
| a Blind Mans Walk in charitable
| neighborhood. tie comings in between %
and 26 shillings a week, with a dog well
drilled and state in good repair.
Handsome premium Is expected
Among various advertisements of an
| cient date is one by Martin Van Butchell
of London. He announced in 1875 that he
mad recovered the ancient proce IS of en-
balming, and. as proof of this, when his
wife died several years Iater he embalmad
the body, and with true public spirit ex-
hibitedaher to an admiring world. Such
was the curiosity excited by this pecu-
liar exhibition that Mr.. Van Butchell
found it necessary.t to limit the admission
and for that end advertised in the st.
| James Gazette as follows:
| Van Butchell, mot wishing to be unpleas-
| antly circumstanced land willing to con-
| vince some good minds that they have
been misln-formed) acQuaintn the curious
that no stranger can see his embalmed
| wife. unless personally introd uced to him
by friend, between the hours of and
O'Clock on every day except Sunday.
! Equally gruesome is an advertisement
| which appeared in German newspaper
| At No. II in the roof chamber. orders