Butte record., 1856-01-26
NUMBER Il.

anu olitineHt man III LONDON, WrlteS 10
the Prairie .Neacs on the subject of ad-
vertising. He says:
"DEAR SRA correspondent of
yours has recommended your paper to
me as an advertising medium. He
mentioned the circulation, but may be
mistaken in the amount. Will you
kindly inform me as to the circulation
Of your weekly, as | wish to make a
contract with you for the insertion of
my advertisement. | am unlimited in
my advertising my list of papers is
now 1900, and | pay in ADVANCE
Yours respectfully.
To which the editor of the .Neacs
responds =
VERY DEAR SIR,-The circulation
Of the Prairie .News, which has been
increasing with unexampled rapidity
for more than two years, now amounts to
forty-three, thoguh l am bound in hon.
or to say that two of my subscribers
being very precarious pay, shall pro-
badly cut them off before this letter
reaches you, so that you are at liberty
to consi der the list reduced to forty
one. to this number should be added
seven gratis copies, sent to as many
friends Of mine at distance, out of
compliment to their indefatigable ex-
ertions in procuring new subscribers.
This number should be further aug
mented by permanent exchange list of
sixty-fye, making in all a constant
weekly circulation of one hundred and
thirteen, besides an average of half
dozen surplus copies week, which are
sent with religious scrupulosity to post
masters and other distinguished indi-
viduals in benighted parts of the world.
| have good grounds for estimating my
reading patronage at forty mine per-
sons per copy. You may safely cal
culate that the 5537 readers of my
paper would consume on an aveoage
$40 90 worth per annum, each, of your
pills and ointment, particularly the
pills, for | cannot promise you an ex-
tensive sale of your ointment in this
region, cutaneous diseases being rare,
as may be inferred from the fact that
the foreign born population of Missis-
sippi is only one in sixty-two of the
aggregate. So you perceive ! shall
be the means of opening a market to
you for S55,370 worth of the invalua-
BILE remedies which have immortal-lies-
ed your name, on which, after deduct
ing the cost of the materials, boxes,
etc., your profit will be about eighty
five per cent. Or 81, ,064 so. Upon
this handsome increaseof your profits,
accruing through my instrumetality, |
propose to charge the moderate COM
mission of one per cent, or $473 SO.
If these terms do not suit you, come
over by the next steamer, and we'll
talk about it. If you are satisfied
with them, for the first quarterly in
stalment of $117 66, be so good as to
pay for me one years subscription to
Punch, Diogenes, and The Times, all
of which are good papers, and should
be encouraged, and send the balance in
cuttings of the London Particular Ma
deira grape vine. Subsequent install
ments may be sent at your option,
in Bank of England notes, or any 9TH
er truck except your medicines. Give
my best respects Q. Victoria, the
next time you see her; tell her she is
lady whom | greatly esteem, and
that | think with what satisfaction,
while this disastrous war is so timing
the population of her realms, she must
reflect that she, at least, has done her
duty in the way of keeping it up.
Your ob't. servant, The EDITOR
A Quakeress, being jealous of her
husband, took occasion to watch his
movements rather closely, and one
morning actually discovered the tru-
ant hugging and kissing the pretty
servant-girl, while seated on the sofa
by her side. Broadbrim was not long
in discovering the face of his wife, as
she peeped through the half-open door,
and rising with all the coolness Of a
general, thus addressed her:
''Betsey, my wife, thee had better
quit thy peeping, or thee will cause
disturbance in the family"
A woman is either worth nothing or
great deal. If good for nothing,
she IS not worth getting jealous for;
if she be true woman, she will give
no cause for jealousy. A man is
brute to be jealous of such woman-
a fool to be jealous of worthless one
but double fool to cut his throat
for either of them.
A Deacon in Boston, who became
rich in the grocery business, boasts Of
what he has done for temperance, by
mixing at least gallon of pure wa
ter with every gallon of liquor he sold!
The Deacon was decidedly great on