Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — FUN IN ODD PLACES. [ARTICLE]

FUN IN ODD PLACES.

So ne New-Yorkers Derive Much Amusement from Advertisements. “Why clo you read the advertisements in your piper first?” asked one gentleman of his friend In the next seat of an elevated car on its way down town. “For fun,” replied the other. “I never knew there was anything funny in ads,” said the first man. “That’s because you don’t look for it there,” was .the answer. “Look at this little one, for instance: 525 REWARD for return of plain, openface lady's gold watch. No. , with chatelaine pin. lost April 12 on Broadway, or In car, between Ninth street and Koriytbirl street “Now,” continued the speaker; “just imagine an open-face lady losing her watch. Why, that’s the funniest thing in the paper.” And he laughed so heartily that he disturbed everybody la the car. The man who found fun in the advertiseing columns is not alone in his fad. Another citizen who keeps a scrap-book of queerly worded advertisements shows the following gems as samples of the writers’ art: “Two sisters want washing.” “To Rent—A room to a gentleman, large, airy and square.” Most landladies prefer their roomrenters and boarders square. “Lost—A savage bull-dog. The finder will oblige the owner by keeping the dog,” is an advertisement which the inserter thought was worthy of being paid for as a joke, as no address was given by the advertiser. The pianist who advertised for a piano suitable for an artist with carved legs, never got exactly suited, but it is to be hoped that the watenman out of employment who advertised for a job, saying that “wages and sleep were no object,” ought to have been accommodated, and probably was. Just why a physician advertised for “an office boy who can drive,” may never be known, unless he wanted t coachman who could keep books by double entry. A firm on the Bowery ' advertised for “a putter-on at good wages. ” “Hair cut while you wait” is the pleasing inducement held out to customers of a Broadway tonsorial estab- ; lishment, which also advertises that j men wanting noses and ears trimmed ' will have to go to a ilval establishment. The advertising columns as a rule are more entertaining than “Th* i Poet’s Corner.” —N. Y. Journal.