P.S.—Keep it quiet.
The Quill Toothpick Attachment Company, Limited.
Messrs Layit Onthick & Co., offer for subscription the undermentioned Capital:
(The subscription list will open on Saturday next at Four o’clock in the afternoon, and will close at five minutes past Nine on Monday morning.)
| Ordinary Shares, £10 each | £5,000,000 |
| Preference 6 per cent. Shares, £10 each | £4,500,000 |
| Total Share Capital | £9,500,000 |
| Debenture Stock bearing interest at 5 per cent. (redeemable at the Company’s option up to the expiration of twenty years from the first of April next (1887) at 110 per cent.) | £3,000,000 |
| £12,500,000 | |
“One-half of the ordinary Shares is reserved for the Vendor, who will hold as long as it suits his convenience, and the remainder, together with the Preference Shares and Debenture Stock, are now offered severally for public subscription at par.
The Quill Toothpick Attachment Company, Limited,
has been formed to supply the whole world with Quill Toothpicks, the interiors of which will be charged with hydraulically compressed drinks, such as the stout of Guinness, the ale of Bass, the champagne of , the whiskey of , the port of , and the sherry of .
Might charge these as advertisements, say £25 each, and cheap enough at the money.
By means of a new forcing machine, which the vendor is now trying to invent, he thinks that a quart of Guinness or a bottle of Champagne can be readily compressed into the interior of a Toothpick, and when in the mouth the contents will be gently and gradually released by the touch of a spring. The Tea of , and the Coffee of will be stored in a similar manner. The Company will grant Royalties to Temperance Societies.