numerous inhabitants of as large a dwelling-
house as is to be found in Vienna, and
startles the eye with the big letters:—

A WOMAN WISHES! to take the entire charge
of a single gentleman, and to do for him altogether.
Apply to the Haupstrasse, No. 762, 1st
chamber of the 4th storey, door No. 17.

This minutely-detailed address reminds us
of Charles Lamb's Brighton Lady, who,
a victim to a tender disappointment, told
everybody she had retired from the world in
broken-hearted solitude, and that she lived at
number ninety-nine Marine Parade.

The second man-trap is more artfully set:—-

TO LET, HALF-YEARLY, at the house of an
unmarried lady, of cheerful disposition, a light,
agreeable chamber, having a pleasant look out upon
the street. A middle-aged single gentleman
(soliden) preferred. Apply personally, after three
o'clock P. M.

The intentions of the unmarried lady of
cheerful disposition, who prefers a middle-
aged "single" gentleman, but very much
prefers a soldier to any youth or widower, are
manifestly to convert such a lodger, if she
can catch him, into a husband with all
convenient speed.

There is no disguise whatever in the next
advertisement we shall present:—

MARRIAGE PROPOSAL OF A WIDOW.—
The same is childless, of unspotted character,
and possessed of property to the value of about
16,000 florins, in real estate. Address, No. 734,
Bazaar, Boarmarkt. Secresy guaranteed.

Another lady, whose notification appeared
at an earlier date, is even more explicit:—

A VERY SOLID, RESPECTABLE MISS, free,
between thirty and forty, not pretty, but still
not particularly ill-looking, possessed of a good
business, about 700 florins ready money (convention
currency), and making a profit of from 20 to
25 florins a month, desires a matrimonial union
with a good-looking man of unspotted character,
either bachelor or widower, between forty and
fifty-five years of age, without children and debts,
and having either a situation or a business. Those
who may reflect on this proposition with seriousness,
are requested to forward their address and a
statement of their position, in well-sealed letters, to
K. B.W., Vienna, Poste Restante,until July 17, 1850.

Besides the matrimonial " wants " of both
sexes, the " Want places " column in most
German papers is generally full. " Perfect"
cooks, " brave " housemaids, and " solid"
governesses are continually publishing their
qualifications to find masters and mistresses.

We take leave of these matrimonial and
general " Wants," to notice a class of
advertisers who apparently want nothing but to
make themselves notorious. One sentiment
comes out with extreme prominence in the
advertising department of the German papers—
personal vanity. It is by no means uncommon
for a person who has no one to congratulate
him, no one to puff him off as a dear but
absent friend or lover, to advertise himself.

A gentleman named Schmidt (the " Smith"
of German nomenclature) being most desirous
of acquainting Europe that he has obtained
a small government appointment, and that
he was a member of the defunct National
"Versammlung " (Association)—concocts an
advertisement, stating that several persons
are going about the European Continent (he
names no place), contracting debts in his
name (namely, "John Smith"), and bidding
them beware; for he will not pay any of
those debts, for he is not any of the John
Smiths aforesaid, but Mr. Under-clerk-of-the-
Berlin-Custom-House John Smith (ex-member,
&c.).

We find in the same paper that another
gentleman is oppressed with a conviction that
his movements are of infinite solicitude and
consequence to the whole of Europe. His
announcement commences with a startling

NOTICE!—I beg my numerous friends and
acquaintance in the several parts of Europe
who may be anxious to communicate with me, to
address their letters to me at the seat of war,
Schleswig-Holstein.—JULIUS H———, Captain of
the army of Schleswig-Holstein.

As the gallant captain has not paid us for
advertising his whereabouts, we have sup-
pressed all but the initial of his name.

Births are always made known in the papers
by the husband; and in the west of Germany,
when the male population is increased,
the new comer is always described as a
"powerful" boy. Deaths are announced in
long-drawn epitaphs, describing at lugubrious
length not only the virtues of the deceased,
but the inconsolable sorrow of the relatives.

We conclude this Chapter of Advertising
Curiosities with the announcement in the
Weiner Zeitung of a book " for all classes," that
we fear has already had a very extensive sale
in the land which originated the bowl and
dagger school of literature:—

         FOR READERS OF ALL CLASSES.
THE DARK DEEDS OF CIVILISED MAN,
with the wonderful interventions of Providence
for their discovery and punishment. By Dr.
CH. FRED. GREBH, with copper plate engravings.
Contents,—
I. The Murder of Mr. O'Connor by the Mannings;
Husband and Wife.
II. The Fourfold Murder by James Bloomfield
Rush; with other trials.

"Give me the ballads of a people," said
Voltaire, " and I will write their true history."
Had he lived till now, he would have found
the advertisements of a people a better index
to their social tastes and habits. One
Supplement of the Times, a file of the Constitutionnel,
or a few numbers of the most
extensively circulated of the German papers would
be more suggestive of the wants and manners,
locomotive, literary, and commercial habits of
their various readers, than all the best
treatises ever penned.