People are swooning over this resurfaced 1865 dating ad where a man is trying to find a wife

The INSIDER Summary:

• A dating ad from 1865 is going viral. 
• People are swooning over the man who has a a "good set of teeth" and promises to buy his love hoop skirts. 
• One man even put the ad as his Tinder bio. 

Get yourself a man whose buckwheat looks first-rate. 

Twitter had a field day when Max Roser, a researcher for the University of Oxford, shared a snippet of a dating ad published in a newspaper in 1865. The ad, titled "Chance for a Spinster," featured a young man touting his best traits in the hopes that he would find a wife. 

And this young lad really had it all going for him. He's patriotic (he believes in the Star Spangled Banner!), he's well-off (he has nine sheep, a bull, and 2 heifers), he wants to buy you a hoop skirt, and he even has a good set of teeth! Your Tinder date could never.

 The full ad reads: 

CHANCE FOR A SPINSTER — A young man in Aroostook County, Maine, advertising for a wife speaks of himself as follows: 'I am eighteen years old, have a good set of teeth, and believe in Andy Johnson, the Star Spangled Banner, and the 4th of July. I have taken up a State lot, cleared up eighteen acres last year, and seeded ten of it down. My buckwheat looks first-rate, and the oats and potatoes are bully. I have got nine sheep, a two-year-old bull, and two heifers besides a house and a barn. I want to get married. I want to buy bread-and-butter, hoop-skirts, and waterfalls for some person of the female persuasion during life. That's what's the matter with me. But I don't know how to do it.

After the ad surfaced, Twitter was thoroughly taken with this young man and wanted to begin courting right away. 

One man even followed his lead and made the ad his Tinder bio. No word if he's found someone to share his buckwheat with yet. 

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