ODDITIES OF ADVERTISING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3609, 5 February 1883, Page 4

ODDITIES OF ADVERTISING.

The folloAving is the advertiscnieiil of one AA'ho might be termed a " handy man : " — "James AVilliams, parish clerk, sexton, toAA-ii crier, and bellman, makes and sells all sorts of haberdasheries, groceries, etc., likeivise hair and Avigs drest and cut ou the shortest notice. F. B.—l keeji an CA'ening school, AS'here I teach at reasonable rates, reading, riling, and rithiuetie and singing, N.C.--I play the hooboy occasionally if Avauted. N.B.—My shop is next door, Avhere I bleed draAV teeth, and shoe horses Avith the greatest sell. E.B.—Children taut to dance if agreeable at sixjiencc per Aveek, by me, James AVilliams, Avho buy and sell old iriu and coats—boots and shoes cleaned and mended. N.B.—A hat and j.r of socks to be cunjellc for the best in b on Shrof Tuesday. For particulars enquire AA'ithin, or at the horse shoe and bell near the church, on t'other side the Avay. N.B. —Look over the door for the sign of three pigeons. N. B. —I sell good ayle aud sometimes cyder. Lodgings for single men. N. B.—l leach jografy, algebry, and them outlandish kind of things. A ball on Avedncsdays and Fridays." Perhaps the most curious advertisement for a Avifo that over appeared in any paper Ai-as that pubii.h.d iv BcU',.. Weekly Mej._eugc-r, of

Alav 28, 1707. It ran as folio.vs:— " Alatthew Dawson, in BotliAvell, Lumberland intends to be married at Holm Church ou the Thursday before AVhitsuntide next, Ai-heneA'er that may happen, and return to Botlnvell to dine. Air Reid gives a turkey to be roasted; Ed Clemeuson Lives a" fat lamb to be roasted- AVilliam Elliot gives a hen to be roasted: John Gibson "gives a fat calf to be roasted. And iv order that all this roast beef may be avc-U bested, do you sec, Alary Pearson, Betty Hodgson, Alary Bushlcy, Molly Fisher, Sarah Brisooe, and Alolly Porthouse give each of them a pound of butter. Tho adA'crtiser will provide everything else for so festive an occasion. .And he hereby gives notice to all. young Avomen desirous of changing their condition that he is at present disem.ai.edr and advises them to consider that although thercbeluck in leisure, yet in this ease delays arc dangerous, tor, with him, ho is determined it shall be firstcome first served.