SPECIMENS OF YANKEE ADVERTISING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 90, 15 April 1873, Page 4

SPECIMENS OF YANKEE ADVERTISING.

; Consumption, a ; lung disease, has >. hitherto been supposed to defy the skill of the whole fraternity ; \ bit now such is not the case. ; 1 One : of our eminent physi^ .'worst : '^des^rlpipii • :^to ; Cde>lf fwit SL' % '-'. Y ■: /*?niea*y^W^ ; ordered lifbe^titiatVai'^n^gU^^oif/

commended, him to get it Hotaling's, ;in Jackson-street, belovv -Montgomery, to; insure purity. The patient is now a hale and hearty man, and swears by Cutter's whisky. ' The loftiest pine is oftenest shaken iby the winds, high towers fall to the earth; with a heavy crash, and lightning strikes the summit of the mountains, but this rule does not apply to everything. You cannot get too good furniture, or too substantial, as long, of course, as you combine elegance with durability. To do so, you will have to go to one place, and one place only— that is, N. P. Cole's large warehouse, next the Mercantile Library, on Bush-street. " Don't cut me up in that style." This exclamation, to our utter amazement and horror, came from a joint of beef /we were carving, or rather trying to carve; the wife fainted, the children screamed, and, we — well, we bolted. Our family carver was just a little blunt; since then we have purchased a set of carvers, &c, of "M. Price, 415, Kearney- street. Our joints now hold their peace, and the family circle is once more happy. A New York monitor asked a pupil of his the meaning of the scriptural phrase * ' The wages of sin is death." ■ The boy exhibited an ignorance that was truly deplorable-— he did not know what, wages were, and was asked what his jfatKer got on Saturday night. " Drunk ! " was. the answer. Such would not have been the case had the father stuck to Gerke wine, which " cheers, but does not inebriate," unless taken in inordinate quantities, and even then " death is robbed of its eticg," as no headache ensues. . f Did you ever know an Irish servant that hadn't a dozen cousins ? A friend of ours says that he once forbade them his kitchen, but it was of no use; they came, and when he came they were hid away. His kitchen chimney smoked one' day; he knew not wherefore; he knows now. He says that a kitchen, chimney will smoke when there is a journeyman baker up the flue. This seemed reasonable, and we believed him; but when he eaid that he did not use Donnolly's yeast powder, made at 315, Clay-street, we pitied him* and doubted his eaueness.