Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — Continental Advertisements. [ARTICLE]

Continental Advertisements.

When continental advertisers, bent upon lightening British purses, rashly venture to at ack Englishmen in their own tongue, the result is often disastrously comical. The proprietor of a “milk-cur” - establishment in Aix-la-Chapelle, “foundet before twenty years of orders from the magestrat,” boasts that his quality of “Suisse and his experiences causes him to deliver a nfilk pure and nutritive, obtained by sounds cow’s and a natural forage.” One Parisian hosier informs his hoped-for patrons he possesses patent machinery for cutting “sirths”—Franco-English, we presume, for shirts. Another proclaims his resolve to sell his wares dirty cheap; and a dealer in butter, eggs and cheeses, whose “produces” arrive every day “from the farms of the establishment without intermedia!,” requests would-be customers to send orders by unpaid letters, as “as the house does not recogni ze any traveler. ”, A Hamburg fir mn o tis v that flteir “universal lunocle of field is also preferable, for the use in the field, like in the theater, and had to.the last degree of perfection concerning the rigoressness and pureness of the glass,” while they are ready to supply all comers with “A Glass of Field for the Manne 52ctm objectly opening in extra stout lacleather etui and strap, atsh3s shillings 6 pence.” This a specimen of their “English young man’s” powers of composition that would justify the enterprising opticians in imitating the Frenchman ■whose shop window was graced with a placard bearing the strange device: “Engl sh spoken here a few.”-— Argonaut.