Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — Signs Ludicrous and Humorous. [ARTICLE]

Signs Ludicrous and Humorous.

Of unwittingly ludicrous or humorouA signs there are plenty. A tinsmith near Exeter, England, has a sign which reads, ‘‘Quart measures of all shapes and sizes soldi here.” At a market town In Rutlandshire the following placard was affixed to the shutters of a watchmaker who had decamped, leaving his creditors mourning: “Wound up and the mainspring broke." Equally apposite was one In Thomaston, Ga. On one of the principal streets the same room was occupied by a physician and a shoemaker, the disciple of Galen In front, while he of the St. Crispin’s trade worked in the rear. Over the door hung the sign: “We repair both soul and body." On the windows of a London coffee room there appeared the notice: “This coffee-room removed upstairs till repaired.” The proprietor of the place was not an Irishman, though the framer of the notice over the entrance to a French burying ground, “Only the dead who live In this parish are burled here," must have been. One may see in the windows of a confectioner in Fourth avenue, New York, “Plea Open All Night.” A Bower) placard reads, “Home-Made Dining Rooms, Family Oysters,” while a West Broadway restaurateur sells “Home-Made Pies, Pastry and Oysters," and st lid another caterer, on West Broadway, retails "Fresh Salt Oysters and Lager Beer.” “Boots Polished Inside” Is a frequent sign In New York, awl on Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, there is a “Stationary Library;” the latter Is really a circulating library and the word “Stationary” adorns one window and “Library” the other. Philadelphia has a sign reading "Ho Made Pies!” and a barber's shop in the same city bears this inscription on its window, “G. Washington Smith, tonsoria.) abattoir.”—Demorest's Magazine.