SCIENTIFIC ADVERTISING.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1201, 11 August 1874, Page 4

SCIENTIFIC ADVERTISING.

The "Loafer in the Streets," in the Press, tells the following good story about the hairless horse: — "Caoutchouc was being shown in Nevada, and an individual wearing an old-fashioned coat, with capacious side pockets, caino to sec him. The exhibitor kept his eye on this party, lie saw at onco that ho was no common visitor. He saw in the man's eye a gleam of cunning and speculation. Watching him closely, he observed him handling the tail of the horse in a suspicious manner with his left hand, while in his right ho held a bottle. The alarm was quickly given, and the man was caught as ho was rushing out at the door. It was supposed that he had intended disfiguring the horse with some strong acid, and he was about to be given in charge to a policeman when some one pulled the bottle from his pocket, and it was found labelled : White Sage Hair Restorer.' The fellow proved to bo the agent of this wonderful article. He said all he regretted was that ho had not just got one gill of the hair restorer on the animal's tail. It would have been ten thousand dollars in his pocket, he said, as in less thau a fortnight the horse would have hod a tail that would have swept the ground. No man with a bottle in his pocket is now allowed to go near, the hairless horse. He is at onco set down as a d^if JLMtiapd agent of the great hair restorer. Anyone perusing the above narrative will allow that wo don't know much about the art of advertising here yet."

THE COMET. High in glory see the comet Floating in ethereal space ; Sing we all a cheerful sonnet, Of its bright celestial race. Lo, the stars its course are watching, As it floats along the sky, Planets, too, are glimpses catching Of the flaming stranger nigh. Mortals, lift your eyes to heaven, With the nightly watchers vie ; Wonder why such glory's given, Why so soon from vision hie. Think ye not that it prccurses War impending, danger near, Empires' dread and sad reveases, Spreading woe, and death, aud fear; Onward, see its train is moving, Onward man, it seems to say, Onward, conquests ever proving, Onward speed to perfect day. Comet, we adore thy Maker, He who kindled up thy ilame; He, too, is our great Creator, Jah, Jehovah is his name. A lecturer on optics, in explaining the mechanism of the organ of vision, remarked. " Let any man gaze closely into his wife's eye, and lie will see himself looking so exceedingly small that " Here the lecturer's voice was drowned by the shouts of laughter and applause that greeted his scientific remark." When is a sailor not a sailor.—When he's aloft.