Drought. Why rcret Out. A reporter dropped into one of our largest retail establishments yesterday, and held a conversation with the pro prietor. " You havo a great rush," re marked the reporter. " Yes," replied tho proprietor, "a big rush—mainly on account of advertising." " How can you tell whether advertising pays and what papers are good medinmsf' "I can tell that advertising pays by stop ping my advertisements. I've tried it Trade drops, not at once, but the tide of purchasers flow some other way. The cash receipts tell the story." " Hnpposc yon should give up adver tising?" " You mnst koop the boilers heated if yon wantateam. If you bank yonr fires too long it takes time to stsrt up. Advertising is the steam which keeps business moving. I've studied the matter."—Boston Journal. How to bleep In a bleeping Car. 1. Get a berth in the fore part of the car. This is because the pure air comes Tn at the front end and windows and goes out at the rear end and windows. I always take the upper berth. My reason for taking the npper berth is, beoanae it is freely ventilated and away from the hot pipes. 2. Have yonr berth made up head toward the engine. This will keep all drafts of air from yonr hesd and prevent taking cold. If the car is very tight put a lead pencil under the window at yonr feet in case of a lower berth ; or, in oave of the upper berth, open the hind-sky window at your feet. 3, Fix your pillow in one corner of the berth, and yonr feet in the other By laying crosswise you will not roll in your berth.— A Traveler. A CITY WITHIN A (ITT. A ('•rrrapoutlrnt Kxplerc* Ihr Olntlal qunrlrr of Hon frnnrliro Hluki* nnd Hrensa of on Alton I'llr. A correspondent who bun visited tho "Chineso quarter" of Ban Francisco, describes tho strange SCOUOH BH wit nessed as follows: We see signs of civ ilization older than the Fharoahs; we hear tho twaug and squeak of a (lddlo of rude workmanship, whoso music was heard in tea gurdens two thousand years before tho three stringed rebec (sire of our violin) was heard in Italy; we bend at doorways that bar our path at sud den turns, peer into dark dens that line the way; hero is a shrine, with gold and saffron legends and scarlet stream ers round the door through which floats tho scent of burning sandal wood in the josg sticks, And we catch the gleam of tinsel, flare of a lamp before an ugly image; and this is what men are left to do I These garish figures are actually worshiped by human beings in their blind gropings for snperior prowess! We have meat shops whore everything is sold from pork to rata; restaurants or chop (stick) houses whore wc see companies feasting, possibly on shark's fin or bird's nest soup and tea; were tho royal Hamlet with us he would say, "And smells so I Pah 1" Hero is a group of fellows in a wash-house play ing fl-ti to see who shall pay for a treat of tea, a game I have seen before but power fails me to describe. Next is a barber shop, where many are undergo ing dainty cleaning of eyes, nostrils, trimming and penciling of eye brows and lashes. The streets are narrow, crooked alleys, whereon are crowded strange buildings, and crowd ed, quaint shadows. We see roofs towering in the air as if striving for spacower, the strong Six Companies; from whose joint decree there is no appeal; of the theater, grotesque in the extreme; of the gambling dens, with dice, dominocs ( dragon or demon-pictured cards, where Fan-Tan holds sway, of nndcrground depths like the abysses after death ; of long passages with a strange smell, a smell that makes one faint, a smell of death, where ghastly figures cursed with leprosy cross the slimy rotten floors ; of—bnt enough ; let us out from China and enter America, under a starry sky, and breathing an air fresh and free from beyond the Golden Gate. Harvest Time In Italy. At harvest time there is feasting and rejoicing. Ham, eggs and wine are consumed in great quantities. During " mietitnra " scarcely any one stays at home, and all other work is neglected. The harvest home is usually celebrated by a dauce, and it is at this time that marriages are chiefly arranged. The vintago is a quieter proceeding, for, although the soil is favorable to the vine, it is not so extensively cultivated as corn. For some time before the grape gathering peasants, chiefly women and girls, may be seen guarding their vines, and forming picturesque groups beneath the festooned tree*. Were it not for this precaution all those fine clusters of grapes would dis appear as if by magie, respoct for tbeir neighbors' property not being among the virtues of these Arcadians. After the gathering wagon loads of grapes, some ss line as any in hothouses, are to be met, drawn by the slow oxen along the road*, on their way to be deposited in a vat with a hole in tbe bottom. This is placed on the top of a cask, and on it m nuts a man or a boy, who begins treading the grapes, the juice of which falls into tbe receptacle beneath. This is hard and very unpleasant work, for a a warm of wasps follow tho grapes, and severely sting the naked feet which tread upon them. The sight of the muddy feet increased my distaste for tho wine of the country so much that, in deference to my prejudices, our wine-treaderv were made to wash their feet before hoginning their work— a ceremony they considered superfluous Cortihill M-igatiitr. What They Kat ia Africa. An African correspondent of t\od ami lhalfh, speaking of the people and incident*, says: Of course banter's food, anch as ele phant foot, buffalo hump, aea oow, giraffe, and the hundreds of different kinds of deer that abonnd in various parts of the country, are all more or less good citing, especially when you have a good supply of Dame Nature's sauce, hunger, on hand. I also found the coney or rock rabbit a fair dish, al though too much like a large rat to look pleasant on the table. The natives of tho country are not, aa a rule, great meat eaters, living generally on corn (called there meehea), milk, pumpkins, and a sort of sugar cane, now and then going in for a feast of meat. I have often considered whether to this way of living may be ascribed tho really won derful manner in which they recover from wound* In the Zulu war I saw four persons wounded in the legs with bullets, one of them especially having received a bullet joat below the knee, smashing all the bones, and leaving a bole that you could see through. The doctors said the only hopo for any of them was amputation. This they refused to allow, and they would do nothing but pour cold wfpir from time to time. When I laai saw Ibera all but the worst could walk alone, and fa a wound looked healthy, the bone having grown togeth er and knitted quite strongly. No white man could have lived without au operation. On the other hand, thca men soon succumb to illness or diaeato. How lo restore oil pair.ting*-Carry thorn back to the owner. Novelties of the Law. A Chicago boy only four years old, whose father had gone to his day's work, and whose mother was sick abed, slipped out of tho house and wandered along tho street, where he fell in company with older boys, who coaxed him to frolic with them on the "swing bridge,'' over the south branch of tho Chicago river. A swing bridge answers the pur jKJse of a drawbridge, but tnrns on a pivot instead of being hoisted. The men in charge of this one had just let a vessel through and were swinging the bridge back into place, when tbe chil dren begun jumping bock and forth, and the little fcur-year old fell over the narrow space between the bridge , and the abutment, and bis right arm, which hung down, was crushed. Thccity | was sued for damages. The judges said that they did not consider the fam ily to blame for tho child's being at | play in the street; working poople ran ! not always keep governesses. But | neither was the city to blame. A city I must keep a swing bridge in reason ably safe condition, and if a person crossing it properly is hurt by a defect l of the bridge he can recover. But per sons who use swing bridges must lie careful. The city is not bound to keep a gate or a watchman for preventing persons from stepping upon tho bridge at an improper time. Bridge* are not playgrounds for children, and if chil dren wander from home unattended ' and are hart while playing about a bridge this must be caile 1 a pure acci dent. A Mai viand girl wrote to the preai dent of the Illinois female college ap plying for a situation aa teacher, and was at length engaged at a salary of $3OO, besides "home and washing." The president's letters stated that each teacher would have a well-furnished sleeping room, but did not say on which floor it would be. The teacher wrote, j asking if she might have a room on the aecoud floor, and the president answered at first that it would )>e on the second floor. Subsequently he wrote again, 1 saying that he fonnd that he would have' to asaign her a room on the third floor. Bhe declined this, liecanse " her people were very much opposed to her sleeping on the third floor." Then the president engaged another teacher in her place, and lastly she sued him for her damages in losing tho year's employment. The decision was against her; the court said that as the letters forming the original contract did not express or stimulate for a second-floor room, the president was only bound to award a comfortable room. And he had the right, if needful, to move a teacher from one room to another; because he assigned her a second-floor room at first, it did not fol low that she was entitled to keep it the whole year. A street ear passenger asked the driver to let him off at the Palmer house, Chicago, which the driver prom ised to do; and when the ear drew near the spot the driver 1 reckoned to him and said: " Here is your place," and slowed up tbe car, as if to atop. The passen ger went to the rear platform, and, when the ear war moving very alowly, stepped off; but at that inatant the driver, who apparently thongbt the passenger had already alighted, whipped his horse, the car gave a jerk, and the passenger, who had not yet Jet go tho iron rail, was thrown violently to tho ground, crippling him for life. He re covered $5,000 damages from the com pany, and the court aaid this was not too much. As a general rule, the driver ia bonnd to atop the ear entirely, and if l*saengors jnmp off .while a car is moving, they take the risk of being hurt; but this does not apply where the driver slows tho car enough to render stepping off appareutly safe, and invites the paasenger to do ao, hut atarts tbe car forward without giving him time. The arrangements of a railroad termi nal iu Austin, Texas, are snch that the train makes a short stop in a freight depot first, and then rnns onward to tho passenger depot. One paasenger, not understanding this peculiarity, alighted from the cars while they wero in the freight depot, supposing that to be tbe proper place for him to get off. There were no lamps in or about the freight depot—none were probably needed for the work done there—and the passen ger, groping bis way along the platform as well as he oouid, had a fall of abont six feet, sustaining serious dislocations and bruises. The company said he waa not entitled to damages, for a railroad is not bonnd to light np its freight depot, nor ia it nnder any obligations to take care of a passenger after be has left the train at bis place of destina tion. But the court said it is bound to provide safe, convenient accommoda tions for jwvasengers to get fairly off from the platform and grounds of the station, and thst therefore the suit would hold. A man in 8t Louis aat watching stone masons laying a cellar wall, when be suddenly arose, approached one of them, aimed a pistol at him, and shot him deed. Pointing his pistol et the other workmen, he said: "If you do not stand still I will shoot yon, too." Ho then walked leisurely swsy, and was arrested a few blooks distant. The defense wu insanity. There ess no proof of hereditary insanity, nor much of prnvions mental disease, hut the lawyer for the accused argued that the lack of any motive for the shooting, the defiant publicity of the act, and the total heedlessness of consequences shown; also the fact that the aocused gave various contradictory and absurd accounts of his reasons for the deed, showed insanity. But the court held that these are not sufficient gronnds. 'I he law presumes every person to IMS sane; if any one is not so this must he proved. It cannot be inferred from the extraordinary malice, wickedness, recklessness or uselestm HB of the ret, nor from ahuormal insensibility to con sequences. To the Pole by Hal loon. • onimnnder Cheyne, who i* trying to interest prominent persons in the United Htates and Canada in bis scheme for reaching the North pole by a I*l loon expedition, says: The ship of the < xp dition is to bo called the Oritinell, after Mr. Orinnell's father, the celebrated patron of Arctic exploration. Lieuten ant Bchwatka has to accom pany the exjiedition, provided ho can obtain the consent of the government. The three balloons which will cost $20,- 000, will ha made in England and will be shipped in this country. New York will he the starting point of the expe dition, and we expect to leave in June next. We shall go to St Patrick's bay, where Captain Nares found an immense hod of fine coal lying on the surface. We shall build a house directly upon the coal. We shall put up apparatus and manufacture hydrogen gas for the balloons. The place is six miles from where Captain Nares' ship, the Discov ery, wintered in 1875-6, and is 496 miles from the pole. When we get the right wind, it will take us eighteen or twenty-four hours to reach the pole." Commander Cheyne says farther that the experience of the Jeannette is only another confirmation of the fact that it is impossible to reach' the pole by means of vessels. In his opinion the region of the jolo is sn archipelago bound in n solid ice pack, presenting no opening for navigation. Each bal loon will be provided with a sledge, boat and provisions for flfty-one days, and will reel out telegraph wire as it travels, keeping in communication with the maiu station. If during the stay of the party at the pole the gas shonid escape so ss seriously to impair the levity of the balloon, the gas of one can be need to in flate fully the two others. The balloons will be weighted so as to travel low, and Commander Cheyne is confi dent that he c