Curious Advertisements.
Curiously worded advertisements that are funny without intent are common in London papers. A periodical offered a prize the other day for the best collection of such announcements, aDd the following is the result:— 1 A lady wants, to sell her piano as she is going abroad in a strong iron fraip§/ ‘ Furnished appartmeuts suitable for a gentleman with folding doors.’ ‘ Wanted a room by two gentlemen about thirty feet long and twenty feet broad.* ‘Lost, a collie dog by a man on Saturday answering to Jim with a brass cellar round his neck and muzzle/ ‘ A boy wanted who can open oysters with references.’ ‘A bull dog for sale; will eat anything, very fond of children.’ ‘ Wanted an organist and a boy to blow the same. ; Wanted,- aboy to be partly outside - and partly behind the counter/ \ ‘ Lost, near Highgate Archway, an umbrella belonging to a gentleman with a bent: rib and a bone handle. ’ ‘To be dis>posed of, a mail phaeton, the property of a gentleman with a moveable headpiece as good as new/
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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2094, 16 April 1898, Page 2
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178Curious Advertisements. Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2094, 16 April 1898, Page 2
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