ses such cloths and figures as will be durable, pleasing,
and well suited to the approaching general election.

THOMAS TISDALL.

N.B. A few pair of gentlemen's doe skin hunting Gloves, and
choice old Spirits by the gallon; a _little_ of which may be
used as a cordial. 9

_Hartford, next door south of Mess. Hudson_ }
_and Goodwin's Printing-Office, 1788._ }

_The crooked Staff of Life._

PURE, mild and unadulterated St. CROIX RUM, to be sold by the
hogshead, barrel or lesser quantity, on pleasing terms, for
one of the great essentials, _Solid Coin_, by the public's
very humble servant, next door to Hudson and Goodwin's
Printing-Office.

THOMAS TISDALE.
_Connecticut Courant_, May 19, 1788.

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_Republican BEEF._

THE subscriber respectfully informs the citizens of Hartford,
that he has purchased the fattest OX and COW perhaps in
Connecticut, which will be killed and ready for sale for the
ensuing Election, at a low price for the times. Those who wish
to purchase _real good Beef_, will please to apply to

WILLIAM BROWN.
April 28, 1794.
_Connecticut Courant._

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Nantucket wit and humor on the 4th of July, in the year 1829.

A GRAND TOUCH. The last Nantucket Inquirer contains the
following advertisement:--

At the sign of the Eastern Pine,
Where the red and the white combine.

JOHN PETERS, a descendant of the famous English Divine, Hugh
Peters, informs all the tidy citizens of Nantucket, that
Apollo and the Graces came over in the last packet, and have
taken up their abode at the corner of Pearl and Water streets.
He officiates as high Priest in their temple, where it is his
delightful task to adorn the outward man, to _shave_ off
excrescences, and trim into proportion the shrubbery which
nature has reared around the headpieces of mankind.--By a
judicious application of the _scissors_ of discrimination, the
_soap_ of good nature, the _brush_ of reform, and the _razor_
of decision, he expects to brin