A CURIOSITY IN ADVERTISEMENTS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1168, 6 October 1882, Page 2

A CURIOSITY IN ADVERTISEMENTS.

In a work entitled “ The Vicar of Mor wenstow,” a life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A , by S. Baring-Gould, M.A., the following description of an advertisement, issued at Wellcombe, in Devonshire, appears. As it isacuriosity we reproduce it for the edification of our readers. It is as follows: — “ Roger Giles, Surgin, Parish Clark, and Skulemaster, Groser and H under taker, Respectfully informs ladys and gentlemen that he drops teef without wateing a minit, applies laches every hour, blisters on the lowest tarms, and vissicks for a penny a peace. Ho sells Godfather’s Kordales, Kuta Korns, bunyons, dokters bosses, clips donkeys ■ once a month, and undertakes to luke I arter every bodies nayla by the ear. 1 Joea-harps, penny wiasela, brass kanel- i sticks, frympans, and other moosical I instrumints at greatly redooced figers. i Young ladys and genelmeua lai n their grammar and languedge in the purticst [ manner, also great care taken off their i morrela and spelling. Alsozarm zing '

i ing, teaching the base vial, and all * other sorts of vancy-work, squadrils, I pokers, weazils, and all country dances I tort at home and abroad nt perfekshun. Perfumery and snuff in all its branches. As times is cruel bad, 1 bogs to tell ey that 1 has just beginned to sell all I sorts of stationary ware, cox, ben.-*, i voids, pigs, and other kinds of poultry. I Blackin-brnshes, traykel, godly bukes 1 and bibles, mine • traps, brickdist, whisker - seed, morrcl pokkeranker chers, and all zorts of swatemaits. in eluding tutors, sassages, and other garden stuff, baccy, ziggars, lamp-oyle, tay-kittles, and other intoxzikalin likj kers ; a dale of fruit, hats, zongs, hare ' oyle, pat tins, buck kits, grindin stones and othor aitables, koru and bunyon zarve, and all hardware. las laid in a large azzortment of trype, dog’s mate, lolipops, ginger-beer, mutches, and other pickleI*, 1 *, such as hepsom salts, hoysters. Windzer sope anzelrar. Old rags bort and zold hero und no , where else, new lade eggs by mu Roger | Giles, zinging burds keeped, sich as ' howles, donkies, paycox, lobsters, ! crickets, also the stock of u celebrated ■ brayder. Agent for sellirg gutty- ! porker souls. P.S.-—1 tachos gegrify, ritmetic, cowsticks, jimnusticks, and 1 other Chynees tricks.”