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Show Advertising Bilks. Iu this world, and particularly iu, America, .hero are hundreds of generous gen-erous souls who are loafing around trying to make fortunes lor ncwi-paper ncwi-paper people. Scarcely a mail comes to liiiud but it brings propositions from some of these people of brains and money-making proclivities. A chap in Uliuois, and his name ii Lord and Lord how generous he is, aud what a cheek he has got, -pub lishes a little GxO sheet for advertising hii wares and productions. He sees a chance for him and us to coin ducats, thus: If we will give him six inches of space in the Ueiuld he will send his monthly wrapper to any address that wo may mention. If we accept hi proposition we will mention a warm address for hia paper. A Now Jersey firm kindly proffsrB tts a wringer that will make all other wringers and washerwomen ashamed of themselves, if we will let him fill four inches of the Heiuld's space for three months. The times are dry anough without wringers, therefore we don't accept. To the credit of the United States be it Baid that a majority of these oners come from a foreign country New Jersey. A fellow in that land, insists every few days that we nocd a silver-toned organ or a piano, grand, square or upright, and he is so urgent ; about the matter that ho offers to give us one or a dozen on the following follow-ing terms. If we will advertise bis wares to the amount of an organ or piano, .ud then pay hiin juit a trifle more C tan the instrument is worth in caah, he will send it securely packed to our uddress. Organs aud pianos are not exactly tho thing that we hankor for just now; in fact "Yankee Doodle" doesn't sound natural when played on one of those instruments, and that's all the tune wo care about having anything to do with until after the Centennial year. Tli ore is another proposition from New Jersey which we perhaps ought to accept. C. K. Landis, thj fellow who murdered an editor a few months ago and who escaped hanging for his crime, is also "stuck" after advertising advertis-ing space in the Herald. He has got some scheme in his head, and if ho cau use our columns to advance ttie matter, he will cheerfully deed to us a sectiou of cranberry swamp near the cold water headquarters of Vine-land, Vine-land, Now, if were fund ol cranberries cran-berries and Landis we would certainly accept the offer and "swap" epace with tho old man, but as we don' I like either, it isn't a trade. For advertising to the amount of $10, we can get from a man in this same New Jersey, a receipt that will knock grubs, army worms, weevils, hen lice, and in fact nineteeu different differ-ent kinds of insects by name, and all in general, higher than a kite. That chap will have to go further and hunt some oue who has got worms. These are only a sample of the popositious received by generous-! hearted people who want to help us. We haven't accepted any of them yet; however, we thank the liberal gentle-, men all the same for making us the oflera. I |