Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1882 — A Queer Hammer. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Hammer.

Among the queerest hammers in use is a magnetic hammer. There was once a Yankee peddler who used one of these to great advantage. He was peddling a fancy soap. He would go into a store, pull out his advertising card, “Buy my unequaled soap,” and before the aston- | islied storekeeper could remonstrate he : would tack up one of his cards on a rafter or wall where it could not be taken down without a stepladder. The way he did it was to hold up his card to the required spot with an outstretched | arm, standing on tiptoe. He had a I magnetized hammer with a long handle

and in his mouth a few tacks. He put one tack on the hammer, point outward, and with one tap sunk it into the required place to secure his ea'rd out of reach. Recently, in South Brooklyn, a tall bill poster pursued this plan of posting advertisement cards on tele graph poles so high that it required the line men to climb np the poles to get the cards down. —Neir York Sun.