SIGNLORE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 246, 15 October 1881, Page 1

SIGNLORE

i'" " '" (American Paper.) '. ! There is a perversity in language j sometimes, which like the Irishman's j bulls, has a value of its own, and enj riches a too careful mode of expression i byv some -blunder. This is | particularly noticeable. ; ;! in t isolated ; tigures* of -speech signs,y which are ! seldom. eMJer ;rubM r o^ : gra|mmiatical';,;i6'r j iiswxfj)&pev x .v. '^nnouncemeTits,, .wherg 1 gi&tpvfifcv :*«tnd„ punptuatipn are often j sacrificed to space. j -"Some df .these mistakes are yery • absurd,; notably' that- in ■which.'-' -a piano ! is wan.ted )by, a lady with carved., legs.' In the'nfdticG of 'Lost— a black lady'si ! fau,' s knd '&' small, gold-faced lady's I watch ' was adyerti.secl.- ; ij 'Sewing done hore' is ;the announce-, ment upon many a door ; afld it took a" small boy to discover the syllogism in it. [ Swd"kp:.''M^',thatwpm^ti''hai3 got hej; sewing dope, 'cos she- says so on her. Sign.*. -. ■- -.: *::..;'* Ay; " *. ,-, ■Morse's old geography announced to. aiiorrified public that Aj^ariy had 400 hou ses and 4000 i nliabitan ts, all standing, with; their gable .'ends td the street. . A barber's sign once once read : a 'What do you think ■_-•> I'll shave yoa for nothing and give you a. drink? :V *.. '.",... When Ms customers asked : for : the i drink and refusPd to pay, he tpbk then;* outside and read to them.: '_■.;•_• ._-• ' What I do you think I'll shave you for nothing and give "you a j -drink? '--;' : -■■ — ' "y -'■'■•" -Yj y'Yj'Y ! This 'reading gives -it a different' i meaning. i •' ■ ■'", '■ • Detached sentences 'often preterit a quaint' "exgr-gVsioijly : VJdV ! said 'au,-r.old r lady,, read uig ,-a familiar, ;Bign, -,''poor.:man,- heyinust; be awful tired of it, for he's been at it ever since I ctiti remember'!' : " ; la a druggist's window in Chicago, [there was for many years ' a sign,* I 'Artificial eyes,' "and immediately under j it, : * Open; ail night j' which of course ! refecr'red to the store- and not to the | eyes.; x-.a aa x :<; : „'■ " > V ' Sugar and tea sold.' !! The merchant asked, angrily <w;here the rhyme,. wOiS,. when the painter read it.'te^him :, . : A v. -A, iax ,-■■ -'. s' Sugar and tea ' ■..-■■■''; , S-p-l-d.' . ~;I :- * ■ X ' A^ *M¥ W a-tobaccft factory reatls "twenty .boys wamtedto strip/ f Mr Jones'- Shirt -Store/ read an old lady !ca^tipasly j ' Well, \ why doesn^t hp get it mended.* ijy yY^Y-YYJ, Y^i'ii'' .it if. This ,ho,nge .foE. sail,' was the way a landlord spelled the announcement. A 1 smart "/iellovy, came t p-lpng, the road and asked, '' Wlieri Will 'this hpiis'e sail ?' -.. , ■' As soon as some one comes along who can raise the wind,' was the codl answer.^ ' 7 ■-. a -o •-.•.■:-.■ ■ y'Pocket.bpoks reduced tpyfif^eenjCents' was the notice in- a store window, and a wag 'passing 'remarked that be was reduced to/.nothing.' * iVJiI vyylyj : Y A: U.u i.W Ji'Kl > ; ' : rm i liv , A