Innuon.se sums of money are often paid for sensational pieces of informa tion which 110 other paper has got. The editor of the 1 Pall Mall Gazette ' paid £SOO for the news that Mr ('ladhtonu was about to resign, and the Secret was well worth its price. For weeks every paper in England and America was constantly referring to the news which the ' Pall Mall' had been the first to give to the world, and the circulation of the paper received a tremendous impetus. The ' Daily News' obtained a memorable "exclusive" many years ago for a more £SO and sundry other trifling expenses. Twenty-five years ago all England was thrilled by the story of the burning of the Cospatrick on the way from England to New Zea land. Archibald Forbes got that morsel for his journal. " Where can I lincl Macdonald, the mate of the Cos patrick ! Quick !" he exclaimed, as he was pulled on the deck of the £»yanza, off Plymouth, and the next minute he was listening to the man's weird story. Tie gave Macdonald fifty sovereigns duvn to toll his story to him alone, and when the ship arrived at Plymouth, Mr Forbes handed the man over to a coll pp. sriie, who took him up to London by the next train, engaging the whole of a first class carriage ! The chagrin of the thirty waiting journalists may be b< ttor imagined than described. " The pil.lic have a right to know your story" one of them pleaded; but all they could get from the man in reply was: 4 Tiny maun read it i' the 'Daily No VS.' it'll be all there in the morn ing."

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