DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

« Se) ments in bewildering variety, business notices equally multifarious. There you will be told of Madame Tussaud’s, where you can see the model of the latest sensational murderer or statesman; of the money- lender who will trust you with any sum you require, from 102. to 20,0007., on the slightest security ; of the gold mine in which innumerable fortunes are to be made; of the gentleman, ‘young and good- looking, with 500/. a-year, who wishes to meet with a lady, also young and good-looking, possessed of a sweet temper, with a view to matrimony—a fortune not objected to;’ of the medicine which cures all disorders in three doses; of the nose - improving machine which will make you a Grecian or Roman nose at pleasure ; the stays which will give you the figure of a sylph without imconvenience ; the phy- siclan who will reform the most inveterate dipso- maniac; or the lawyer who will assert your right to unclaimed thousands. The accommodating person who will buy anything, from a court suit to a set of artificial teeth ; the two maiden ladies who will ex- change their charming cottage in the country—with- out three acres or even a cow—for your town house for three months; not forgetting that attractive column wherein you can read of the births, mar- riages, and deaths of your friends, which the irreverent Yankees have called ‘hatches, matches, and despatches.’ In these days every trade, every