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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3637, 23 August 1880, Page 2

Prince Bismarck hag had an offer. vHe has, in, short, been offered a situation upon a newspaper, with what ma} be described " liberal terms.", It is stated by a Berlin correspondent that the Prineerecently received a letter addressed to" hini "ib/jwi;. , American, who laid'that he had 'arrived at the German capital for the purpose' px i soliciting bis co-operation on behalf"of.a i great transatlantic journal. The .newspaper in question placed its columns at the Chancellor's disposal erery week for « short or long article upon his views and policy. These artielea the proprietor . thought," starting from America with the greatest possible eolat, would convey the prince's views to all the ooraers of the globe, would gire rise week after week to the most animated controversies, and would thus afford the Chancellor • means of knowing the opinion on his views; while thele; oy, i' weekly dose would' be gradually insUlted into, the mind of Europe—nay, of the whole civilised world." ■As even prinoesi however, do not care to work/for nothing, the proprietors of the newspaper " offered the prince for eaoh of the arti^ cles, and for the whole time during which he might write them, even should they not exceed 20 lines, the sum of 2,600 dollars — that is, 130,000 dollars a year." It is needless to say that the man of " blood and iron" was not to be bought. Strange as this Story may read there are possibly a few grains of truth in it. The Yankees are a "pushing people."