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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 116, 11 October 1873, Page 3

An editor in Reading, Pennsylvania, advertised the other clay that '* be would take a good dog in payment of one year's subscription for his paper." The next day 43 dogs were sent to the office. The day afterwards, when the news had spread ont> into the'country, 400 farmers had sent two doge apiece by express, with eight baskets full of puppies, all marked 0.0. D. In the meantime thd offer had found its way into the neighbouring States, and before the end of the week there werd 8,000 dogs tied «p with ropes in the editor’s front and back yards 1 The assortment included all the kinds from bloodhounds down to poodles. A feW hundreds broke loose and swarmed on the stair* ways and in the entries, and stood outside the sanctum and howled, and had fights, and sniffed under the crack of the door as if they were hahgry for some editor. And the editor climbed oat oi the window* up the water-spout and out on the comb of the roof, and wept. There was no is ano of the paper for six days, and the only* way the friends of the eminent Journalist? could feed him was by sending lunch up to him in a balloon. At last somebody brought three tons of beef and a barrel of arsenic# and poisoned the dogs; and the editor came down only to find on his desk a bill for eight thousand dollars, being the municipal tax on dogs at one dollar per head, ll© is not offering the ss me inducement to subscribers now# and dees not want a dog.