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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2623, 5 June 1877, Page 2

Me HoiiiawAY, according to an interest* ing article in the'Spbrting Gazette, spends £30,00 > a-year in advertising, his pills. Messrs MbsWahd Sons-have-Ifor years spent £10,0 i 0 a-year in advertising. So baveMestrs itowtandand Son 1, of Macaaiar Oil renown. A similar sum is yearly ex- ■ pended in advertising Dr de Jongh'g-qp^ liver oil. Messrs Heal and Son spenuh^ £6000 a-ye~ r in advertising their beds and^* bedd.ing. Mr N.icholls, the tailor, spends iJSCtf-'J a-year,'and "there-are numbers'-of oth:.s who.equal, and .perhaps exceed, these amounts. v Madame Tussaud pays the Atlas Omnibus Company alone £1C? a month for advertising her waxworks 'on ~ theirinife-boards. But the largest advertiser in the world is Mr IJumbold, the great New York choniisfc, whose advertising costs him £2000 a week.: He has no less than. 3000 papers' on his list. He has paidJ"i£7sO *fi»' a single large diaplayed advertisement and once offered-;£1COO for a.single page.in'lUe New York, Herald on the day that the announcement bf r the fall of Richmond aiviredi" lbut-it Was declined, because .Mr Gordon Bennett could not afford. room for it. Of'cpUrse, it will be asked, can this prodigiou^expenditur.e on advertising r pay ? It only needs' a glanco at th"e r nam^s we hare men* tioned to show that it must pay. Mr Holloway is,worth about £2,000,000, and each of the others have amassed, a great fortune. A strong case this in"'favor of printer's ink as the real arcanum. "_*__ Bs-vaccikation (observes an English journal) is looked upon by many servants in the lightof a i»Hgious ecwnoTtyj *nd is not unfrequently, confounded with confiimation. Not long hgo'a cook" it the country declined to be i j-vaccinateel'at the request of her mistress, alleging as a reason that she was not a member of the Church of England,