ho has a knowledge of fitting boots of a good moral
character.
For sale, a handsome piano, the property of a young lady who is leaving
Scotland in a walnut case with turned legs.
A large Spanish blue gentleman's cloak lost in the neighborhood of the
market.
To be sold, a splendid gray horse, calculated for a charger, or would
carry a lady with a switch tail.
Wanted, a young man to take charge of horses of a religious turn of
mind.
A lady advertises her desire for a husband "with a Roman nose having
strong religious tendencies."
Wanted, a young man to look after a horse of the Methodist persuasion.
A chemist inquires, "Will the gentleman who left his stomach for
analysis please call and get it, together with the result?"
Wanted, an accomplished poodle nurse. Wages, $5.00 a week.
In the far West a man advertises for a woman "to wash, iron and milk one
or two cows."
Lost a cameo brooch representing Venus and Adonis on the Drumcondra Road
about 10 o'clock on Tuesday evening.
An advertiser, having made an advantageous purchase, offers for sale, on
very low terms, "six dozen of prime port wine, late the property of a
gentleman forty years of age, full of body, and with a high bouquet."
A steamboat-captain, in advertising for an excursion, closes thus:
"Tickets, 25 cents; children half price, to be had at the captain's
office."
Among carriages to be disposed of, mention is made of "a mail phaeton,
the property of a gentleman with a moveable head as good as new."
An inducement to return property is offered as follows: "If the
gentleman who keeps the shoe store with a red head will return the
umbrella of a young lady with whalebone ribs and an iron handle to the
slate-roofed grocer's shop, he will hear of something to his advantage,
as the same is a gift of a deceased mother now no more with the name
engraved upon it."
An English matrimonial advertisement reads as follows: "A young man
about 25 years of Age, in a very good trade, whose Father will make him
worth L1000, would willingly embrace a suitable MATCH. He has been
brought up a Dissenter with his Parents, and is a sober man."
A landlady, innocent of grammatical knowledge, advertises that she has
"a fine, airy, well-furnished bedroom for a gentleman twelve feet
square"; another has "a cheap and desirable suit of rooms for a
respectable family in good repair"; still another has "a hall bedroom
for a single woman 8 x 12."
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