Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — A Costly Poem. [ARTICLE]

A Costly Poem.

Pope received $35,000 for his version of homer. But the prize-winner in a competition opened by the proprietors of a half penny journal in England has ust been paid $.>,000 for five lines of verse composing the “poem” which was ad. udged the best offered This is at the rate ot SI,OOO a line, and say SIOO a word, making this the mo t costly poem on record. Hot candies every day, at King’s.