The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-15

low it, on the same board, appeared this; Buy your gravestones in Pittsfeld."
 This advertisement certainly has Dar- winian flavor:
 For sale-An excellent young horse. would suit any timid young lady or gen. tleman with long silver tail"
 Joke on College Chapel Door.
 A former president of Trinity College on going to prayers one morning was sur prised to find a sign over the chapel door. which was inscribed in capital letters: ITO Providence and Way Stations" Some students had taken 1t from the railway station and hung it there, to the great scandal of the neighborhood.
 An enterprising furrier advertised that for such ladies as desired genuine furs. he would make muffs, boas, etc., out of their own skins.
 The advertisements of the Irish are in- imitable. A handbill in Dublin, announce ing a public meeting in that city, stated that:
 '@rhe ladies, without distinction of sex. are invited to attend"
 P. T. Barnum, the snowman, thoroughly understood the art of advertising, and he turned every possible circumstance to his own account. This Is an amusing illus tration of his ingenuity.
 To an able-bodied beggar who was will ing to work after dressing him in the atrical uniform, he gave five common bricks, telling him to go and lay one on the sidewalk at the corner of Broadway and Ann street; another close by the mu- scum, third diagonally across the way at the corner of Broadway and Vesey street, by the Astor House, the fourth on the sidewalk in front of St. Paurs church, opposite; then, with the fifth brick in his hand, to walk rapidly from one point to the other and make the circuit, exchang- ing his brick at every point, and speak ing to no one.
 Drew Great Crowd.
 The man placed his bricks and began his round. Half an hour afterward at least 300 persons were watching his mys- terious movements. He had assumed a mill itary step and bearing, and made no re- sponse whatever to the constant inquiries as to the object of his singular conduct.
 At the end of the first hour the side- walks in the vicinity were packed with people, all anxious to solve the mystery. Then the man, as directed, went Into the museum, stayed in the building 15 min utes, and then resumed his round. This was repeated every hour until sundoWn, and whenever the man entered the muse- um 20 or more people would buy tickets and follow him, hoping to gratlfy their curiosity in regard to the purpose of his movements. Finally, the police complained that the crowds obstructed the sidewalks, so the brick man. was dismissed.
 Advertising has always been used to benefit music halls and theatres. One theatrical manager in Vienna advertised for 5000 cats. Four hours after the notice appeared the streets leading to the the atre were blocked with men, women and children carrying all varieties of cats.
 The manager bought the cats and then he and his assistants attached labels to them, announcing the first performance of a grand pantomme the following week. Then they turned the cats loose in the streets.
 Some years later a melodrama, '"The Mystery of a Hanson Cab,' was being acted in London. The manager wished to advertise it, so he hired 50 hanson cabs, put a dummy figure of a man, in dress suit with blood-bespattered shirt front, in each cab, and instructed the cabmen to drive in every section of London.
 It worked only too well; women and children tainted, and some were even thrown into convulsions at the grewsome Apectacle. For two days London was de- moralized, and then the theatrical man. ager was hauled into court as a disturber of the public peace. Altogether he got all the free advertising that he wanted.