A latest addition [July 24, 2008] to the Project Gutenberg eBook site is Punch, or the London Charivari's volume # 147 of August 12, 1914. It lists two advertisements from British India that had tickled the then-Edior's 'humorous' bone. The first is from the Daily Hitavada (launched in 1911), an English daily from my city Nagpur and the other is from the Rangoon Gazette. --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India Commercial Candour. "The lasting delightful perfume of the age. One who can prove that the perfume of Otto Mohini is not lasting for four days by putting five drops on the handkerchief will be rewarded Rs. 100 cash. Try only small tube and get the reward." -Advt. in "The Hitavada." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dr. Roux, head of the Pasteur Institute, has made a communication to the Academy of Science showing microbes is not only possible, but would be far better." Rangoon Gazette. But we don't quite see what the Academy can do about it. ========================================================