Advertising And Drumming

A Chicago wholesale grocery house, which a few years ago carried sixteen drummers at an expense of $40,000 per annum, and did an almost profitless business, has abandoned the drummer system, spends one-fourth tlieir cost annually in newspaper advertising, dividing the balance imong cuntomers. As a natural result, tlieir trade lias inereased ten-fold, and the net profits to the house in 1877 were $130,000. This year they will do still better. - 8t. Louis Journal o f Commerce. "For what am I?" he said, in a conversational way, to his Sunday-school elass of little boys - " what am I but something filled with a little air? Without it I could not be - wonld collapse - in short, I'm only - " "A Viladder !" was what the good little boy said. The plíiss adjcrarned sinc die,