ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2131, 28 October 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Emigration from Germany has beon regularly decreasing Bince 1882, In tho first half of the year 1885, the emigrants numbered only 65,345, against 117,801 for the corresponding period in 1882. It is well known that any person discovering a printer's error in an Oxford Bible will be paid a guinea, provided it has not been discovered before. Ab showing the accuracy of the new version, it is stated that after running the gauntlet of public scrutiny for more than a month, only three printer's errors had been discovered in all the editions. At the close of the American war with Mexico, a prize was offered by an institute in one of the rising settlements; in tho Far West, for an essay on war, Tho successful essayist certainly deserves praise for the brevity of his production, which was as follows Chapter 1, (toe of the war: Texas, Chapter 11. Result of the war: Taxes. B. G. Rodgers, the man who affirms he saw Preller alive last May, adheres to his statement. He says that lie will go to St Louis and swear that the man calling himself Arthur C. Preller, whom he met at tho Continental Hotel last March, and the man who denied that his name was Preller in Sansome-street-in May, are one and the same person. One of the largest advertisers. in K[ew York says" We once hit upqn $ iiftYpl expedient for ascertaining over what apea our advertisements wore read. . We published a couplo of half column 'ads'in whioh wo purposely misstated historical facts, In less than a week we received between three and four hundred letters from all parts of the country from people wishing to know why on earth we kept such a consummate fool who knows so little about American history, The letters kept pouring in for three or four weeks. It was one of the best paying ads. we ever printed. But we did not repeat our experiment, becauso tk one I refer to served its purpose, Our lottera came from sohoo, boyß, girls, professors, clergymen, school teachers, and, in two instances, from eminent men who have a world-wido reputation, I was more impressed with the value of advertising from those two advertisements than I shovld have been by volumes of theories,"