"The latest form of booming a newspaper is certainly ingenious and I should aay costly. I think it originated on the Continent; at any rate I noticed afew weeks ago that it had become so great a nuisance in Paris that it had been stopped. Here its importance threatens to rival even Fiscal reform, It was taken up by "Tit Bite' and "Answers" but the amounts they gave away were nothing compared with the "Weekly Dispatch which at the present time announces that it has medals representing £2,000 buried in London and adjoining towns. Each medal when found represents a sum of money varying from £10 to £60 which will at once be paid by the proprietors on receipt of the token. OF course to obtain the clue one niust Iuy the paper, which supplies certain "lights" for energetic searchers. Last Sunday's paper announced that a medal was hidden apparently quite near the part I live in, and I am told that men and women were up even before it was light turning the yround over, some of them with table-spoons; but so far it has eluded them. One man, however, was known to remark that the day in the open fir had done him a power of good."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.