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MUST HAVE IT ON ANY TERMS.

A lady residing in Montreal, in ordering a copy of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, after purchasing a few copies at news stands, says:

"I must have GOOD HOUSEKEEPING on any terms. To me it seems a marvelously interesting and invaluably useful journal for any housekeeper. I have never been famed as a housekeeper, but I now expect to excel by the aid of your trusty guide. I have already astonished the family with delicious puff paste and other culinary successes culled from your pages."

REMOVAL OF STUMBLING BLOCKS.

Catherine Owen begs to say to the readers of "Ten Dollars Enough," if any trouble is experienced in working out the recipes. given in that story, she will be glad to hear the nature of the difficulty, and give her assistance in overcoming it. She has endeavored to meet all the difficulties that may arise, to give the directions so minutely that they may even seem tedious and unnecessary to experienced housekeepers, rather than have the tyro in doubt, but if, notwithstanding this effort, she has failed to make every point clear, she will remedy it if pointed out.

POEMS IDENTIFIED.

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

The poem, "Long Ago," printed in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING of January 9, and marked unidentified, was written by Benjamin F. Taylor. R. C. STORY.

OURAY, COLORADO.

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

You publish in your number for February 6, poems as unidentified, "My Prayer," "Beyond," and also "A Child Shall Lead Him." All of these three poems can be found in a small volume that was published in 1852 or 1853 by William A. Silloway, now known as Colonel Silloway of the late war of the Rebellion. Mr. Silloway has written many good things, both in prose and poetry, and in THE PAPER WORLD of January, 1880, I think there was a notice of him as a printer who set up the Bible in the original Greek, etc. Yours very truly, S. W. LEWIS.

HADLEY, MASS.

HOW TO COOK OATMEAL. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

In the replies made to "Anxious Mother," in your journal, as "how to cook oatmeal," I have waited to see if any one gave my way, which, not being alluded to, I give as follows:

OATMEAL.-Take fresh, coarse oatmeal, put of it two cooking cups, scant full, into a three quart bean pot, with small top opening, two teaspoonfuls of salt, and fill the pot with freshly boiled water; put on cover and set in the oven to bake, and let it bake six or eight hours. I bake mine all night. This serves a family of ten for first course at breakfast,

and leaves over some for my oatmeal muffins, made as follows:

OATMEAL MUFFINS.-One large cupful of the cold cooked oatmeal and half a teaspoonful of salt; great spoonful of white sugar; one spoonful butter or three of cream; milk, or milk and water, two cups; one well beaten egg; then sift in flour to make it somewhat stiffer than for fritters, with a heaping teaspoonful of Royal baking powder. Have your cast iron gem pan heated hot, pour in and bake in hot oven. AN INTERESTED READER.

BOSTON HIGHLANDS.

MUCH DEPENDS ON THE "HIM."

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

"Ten Dollars Enough" is very interesting, whether very practical or practicable or not, but the scale of prices astonishes me. For instance, "three pounds butter, 45 cents; two dozen eggs, 50

cents; four quarts peaches, 20 cents; three pounds beef, 35 cents; clams, 15 cents; veal cutlets, 11⁄2 pounds, 30 cents; chicken, 50 cents." I live four miles from Boston and never can get butter at less than 25 cents per pound; at this season it is 30 to 35 cents. Eggs are 25 cents only in summer for a short time, now 35 to 40. How many of four quarts of peaches were properly ripe and fit for food at that price quoted? Beef is from 12 to 18 cents, way down on the round; clams are 20 cents a quart; veal cutlets are never less than 25 cents per pound; chicken would be 60 or 75 cents here.

Again, where can one woman find time or money to collect all the different herbs she uses, and what would she cook for a husband who would not touch any of such delicious little made dishes as she serves her own husband, and who never wants “spoon victuals," such as soups and stews, but clings to the "roast beef of Old England," with rump or sirloin steaks for a change, and very occasionally some other roast.

Ah, my dear Molly, delicious as your little dinners are (I would like one this very minute), let me tell you one thing, that much depends on the "him" you are providing for, whether ten dollars is enough or not. B. V. F.

The mystery of the "Fifteen-Cent Butter" was satisfactorily explained in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING No. 21.-Editor of GOOD HOUSE

KEEPING.

VENTILATION OF SLEEPING ROOMS.

To the Editor of Good HousekeEPING:

The conclusion of the article by Margaret Sidney, in Good HOUSEKEEPING No. 20, brings me to the front with an anxious inquiry in regard to ventilating our sleeping rooms. Looking through the back numbers of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, I fail to gain any practical light on the subject. Different people are differently situated in life. My family consists of my husband, myself, and three boys, seven, five and three years of age. We all sleep in one room. The house is so arranged that I cannot have a separate bed-room for the children without sending them off alone up another flight of stairs. They must be near me, for often in the night I find the blankets kicked half over the footboard, and hardly a night passes without one of them requiring some attention. The room in which we all sleep is twenty feet in length and fifteen in width, but two full sized beds, a crib, and all the other necessary belongings do not leave any too much room. A door opens into the hall, and another door into another room. It is necessary that both of these doors be kept closed at night; therefore, in order to secure fresh air, one or both of the windows must be opened. Science says we must have a draught, a current of air must circulate through the room, in order that we may inhale only pure air into our lungs. Now that is all very well in theory, but not always possible in practice. If both windows face the front, and there is no egress from the rear of the apartment, how are we to have "the current of air" through the room? We have a register for heating, which we are careful to close at night; we have a cold air box for the furnace, fed from the north. Now, I open (in winter), one of the windows, the farthest one from the beds, about two inches at the bottom and the same distance from the top. Either the shade must be rolled up its entire length, or else I must be roused from my light slumbers in the still small hours by the rustling of the curtain, as the wind draws it to the casement. These are small difficulties, soon overcome, perhaps, but if we are suddenly roused at midnight by the short, sharp bark of spasmodic croup, and find the little fellow gasping and struggling for breath, what can be done? Pure air we must have, even at the risk of taking cold, so to GOOD HOUSEKEEPING I turn for information. We cannot all have plenty of chambers, opening from one to another, with windows on two or three sides; in fact we can't all live on a corner lot. It is not practicable in all houses to take the guest chamber for the children; it may be too far away, but let me say that we do occupy the largest and most convenient room in the house for our sleeping room, and one in which there is no set bowl, or any other implement of death (except the open windows). Now I humbly await more light and air on the subject.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

Yours for ventilation,

PERCY.

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HOUSEHOLD WORRIES.

Many and manifold are the Worries of Household Life and to those most directly interested they seem to be mountains of misery, when in reality they are only molehills of disquietude, and are not what they seem. Not that we would belittle the trials of life, wherever found. Not that we would turn a deaf ear to the voice of the disheartened, or the cry of discouragement, wherever heard, much less so when they go up from that tenderest and holiest of shrines, where the heart of man worships-at Home.

The housewife who clings to her home closely and who makes of that home her world, who sees the sun rise there, travel the whole course of the heavens, and set there, and who knows little of life, save what she there finds, quite naturally has circumscribed ideas of what the vexations, trials and sorrows of life really are.

How much it may seem otherwise, the Household, if it is one where affection is the corner stone upon which the home is builded; one where kind consideration has sway and thoughtful attention is daily heard of and known, hath not tribulation and sorrow such as the great outside world, of struggle and strife for bread, of pressure for position and place in the world, encounters at every step in the journey of life.

Does the pot fail to "boil" at the desired time, what woe hath the housewife. Is the preparation of meals delayed unduly, what trepidation does the circumstance produce. Does a neighbor pass by on the other side, with an indifferent toss of the head, what heartburnings follow. Are the opening and closing of the seasons slow in their comings and goings, how patience and temper are tried. And so on from A to Z of the whole category of daily occurrences. To look outward from among the scenes of domestic life into the great amphitheatre of our busy world, we find these daily occurrences, these Household Worries, clouding the whole sky of existence. But to reverse the order of observation and look in upon the scenes of home life, from the standpoint of a prominent place in the army of mankind, where, in the battle of life, deadly blows are wielded at random, or from the arenas whence the masses climb or delve, in search of fame and fortune and bread, let the consequences to others be what they may; where greed gets gain while honesty is unrecognized, and merit goes unrewarded; where virtue starves and crime is gilded-to look, we say, from such a standpoint, how trivial, how unworthy of attention do the Worries of the Household, the little trials of our homes appear. At their worst, when viewed in comparison with the great Worries of life, they are but trifles, and a home that is a home in the true sense of the word, though Household Worries abound there, is still a home of rest to the wearied souls who return to it daily, from fighting the real battles of life.

Granting that these worries, as admitted at the outset, are many and multiform, we think we see a compensating "silver lining to the cloud" of their gathering folds. What blessings to the world at large, invisible, perhaps, at the moment, flow out over the home threshold and run noiselessly down the stream of time. Ask the bruised and stricken soul, as it plods along its toilsome way, if it has no bright spot in life to turn to for solace and comfort in its hours of weariness and woe, and it will point to the charmed circle -if it has access to one-where the cares and anxieties of the day may be forgotten at its close, in a realm that is ruled or made pleasant by a loving mother, a devoted wife or a fond sister, or all combined, and find rest for body and spirit, within the gates of such as these.

Could the weary and worried mother who sees and knows only of the perplexing circumstances that surround her, but be pos

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field, grow brighter and clearer as the wing of thought brings near the home for which the fight is being made; how the arm that is raised to strike the blows of defence and offence, at calling to mind the place where a life of love only is known; how the feet that went lingeringly out from the home threshold in the morning, take up eagerly the work of returning as the evening shadows gather; could the mother see all this as it really exists, would she not rise above the baneful influences of the little warring elements that go to make up the sum total of Household Worries?

Could the sister see and know how often her pure hands have served to restrain and hold back a brother from the pitfalls of destruction; how often her kind words, pleasant attentions and sisterly sacrifices have aided a brother in his efforts to live a noble life, would she, could she, well repine at her lot because it is not cast in as pleasant a place as are some others? Would she follow in the train of those who sit at the feet of the ill-favored Giant of Household Worries?

Ah, Women of the household, there are Worries for you and they seem, from the nature of circumstance, to be trying ones, exasperating and disheartening ones, and so they too often are, but there is comfort and strength in a recognition of the fact that our world is made up more largely of equal parts of cost and compen

sation than we are apt to imagine. "Distance lends enchant

ment" and enchantment falsifies its representations from a distance. Men of wealth, as well as those who toil and spin, have their Worries, and such Worries. Those whose every want is well provided for, who are envied by the millions who look upon their apparent freedom from care, do they have no Worries? The king on his throne, like the peasant in his humble cot, have their Worries alike, and "each heart knows its own bitterness."

The shuttle that is a prominent factor in weaving the web of our existence is seemingly thrown by the hand of Worry. There are few doorways-if any-opening from any portion of the civilized globe, be it that where commerce dwells, where art flourishes, where industry reigns, even where light and learning abound, over which could not be truthfully written-after looking within"Worry is here." And Worry always wears, but never mends; often kills, but never cures. Then why should we Worry? We ask this, oh so often, of each other, but do we ever answer it satisfactorily, even to ourselves?

Nothing costs more dearly to home life than Worry, and nothing is so unsatisfactory, in the matter of compensation, as Worry. But of all the Worries known to GOOD HOUSEKEEPING there are none that have such equity of compensation in outcome, as Household Worries. It is one of the brightest pages in the book of Humanity, upon which the petty accounts of these Worries are kept. At a very near range they are clouded with shadows, but at a reasonable distance of reading, the type grows clearer and the page brighter. Household Worries, we admit, are of daily record and grievous to be borne, but, they are infinitely outnumbered in the record of blessings that come to mankind from the same source from which they emanate, and have nursing and attendance. So much so is this a living truth, that we make bold to add, in closing this discussion of the question of Household Worries, a few words from Holy Writ, with a slight variation: "Blessed are they that " Worry-" for they shall be comforted."

FRENCH DISHES FOR AMERICAN TABLES. French cooking has never been placed in form for popular appre

written by Pierre Carou, formerly chef d'entremets at Delmonico's, and translated by Mrs. Frederick Sherman, to whom much credit is due for a most thorough translation into English. There are no technical terms to harass and puzzle the inexperienced, and the vagueness, usually found in such translations from the French, ering its intended adaptation to the most ordinary intelligence. is utterly wanting. The English is of admirable simplicity, considThe most suitable place for this book is in the hands of those people of moderate-means who desire to live well and yet within their means. It will also be of use to the more affluent, for economy is not its sole object, and there are a great number of dishes mentioned that are obviously expensive. The information will be found serviceable largely, without the use of the peculiar French utensils, which have not been mentioned in the directions. The substance of this work and its form of presentation are to be highly commended; nothing is underdone or overdone; in everything the work is adapted to the broadest use in the homes of the land and to easy comprehension. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

HEALTH IN THE HOUSEHOLD.

The subject of hygienic cookery is made to cover 600 pages in this work by Dr. Susanna W. Dodds. The object is to enable health seekers to furnish their tables with food that is wholesome and at the same time palatable. Foods, as ordinarily cooked, she says, are robbed of their own luscious flavors and rich juices by all manner of wasteful or injudicious processes; by soaking, by parboiling, by evaporation, by under-cooking, and by burning; after which one tries in vain to compensate for these defects by adding butter, pepper, sugar, salt, and other seasonings. How to prepare foods for the table, getting all the good there is in them and adding nothing harmful thereto, is the thing sought after in the pages of the work. The author gives the most minute and accurate information for practically carrying out her ideas. The book abounds in recipes, some of which are original. For the benefit of those who are beginning to try hygienic cooking, but whose families and friends are not thoroughly converted to the system, a part of the book, comprehending a little over one half, has been written, with directions for preparing foods, not strictly in the hygienic way, but in such a manner as to render them relatively plain and healthful. New York: Fowler & Wells Co.

CHOICE DISHES AT SMALL COST.

Families that are unable to have the assistance of a staff of welltrained servants will find this work, now in its second edition, addressed to them. Those people whose taste is above their means must contrive to get food that shall not only be cheap but choice. In this need this work will be found a great help.-a help to the mistress of the household who must superintend the cooking or do some of it herself, and to those who live at her table and enjoy with the palate the art that has been applied in the kitchen, Mr. A. G. Payne prepared this work for English people, but we see no reason why it has not an equal suitability to the people of the United States. Large numbers of them are in the same strait that their English cousins are in having a gustatory appreciation beyond their means of gratifying, and this work will stand them well in hand toward improving their situation. New York: Cassell & Co., Limited.

ART NEEDLEWORK STITCHES. "Dictionary of the Stitches used in Art Needlework," is the title of a pretty little book, within whose artistic covers is embraced the entire alphabet of embroidery stitches, described and illustrated. This novel dictionary is of the same service to the needlewomen as one of the unabridged kind is to the printer. It is not for sale, but is obtained free, as a premium, by sending 50 cents for a year's subscription to Strawbridge & Clothier's Fashion Quarterly, of Philadelphia.

A PAGE OF FUGITIVE VERSE. GATHERED HERE AND THERE.

(Republished by Request.)
MARGARET.

My love a little child is she;

In truth she scarce can speak my name; Yet, spite of this discrepancy,

I know I love her just the same.

We met upon a wedding-day,
A smiling day in early fall;
Except the bride-forgive me pray-
She was the fairest maid of all.

She called me cousin-odious name!
I would not be her relative,
Despite the fact that I did claim
A cousinly prerogative.
She has a modest, truthful air,

Nor contradicts a word I say;
'Tis sure we ll make a model pair,

As that we saw but yesterday.
What though her baby lips are dumb,
If clearly I in fancy see
Another girl of years to come,

Look through her witching eyes at me?

And is it more than love can claim,

To wait? 'Tis surely well and good;
Since years must bring me wealth and fame,
And her her sweetest womanhood.

You smile at patience so sublime?
But if her youth were no delay,
I'd need this trifling lapse of time
In teasing her to name the day.
But though no other should displace
The hero she would find in me,
And I await the day of grace,
As constant as Penelope.

Yes though the waiting season close,
And every toil be safely past;

And I should bring this fair, young rose,
As fair a laurel-wreath at last ;—

Ah, Margaret, dear Margaret,

This fatal truth must intervene,

I shall be almost forty, pet
When you are only-sweet sixteen.
-Franklin Kent Gifford.

GROWING OLD.

Softly, oh softly! the years have swept by thee,
Touching thee lightly with tenderest care.
Sorrow and death they have often brought nigh
thee;

Yet they have left the but beauty to wear;
Growing old gracefully,
Gracefully fair.

Far from the storms that are lashing the ocean,
Nearer each day to the pleasant Home-light;
Far from the waves that are big with commotion,
Under full sail, and a harbor in sight;

Growing old cheerfully,

Cheerful and bright.

Never a feeling of envy or sorrow,

When the bright faces of children are seen; Never a year from the young wouldst thou bor

row

Thou dost remember what lieth between;
Growing old willingly,
Thankful, serene.

Rich in experience that angels might covet,
Rich in a faith that has grown with thy years,
Rich in a love that grew from and above it,

PAPA'S DINNER.

"I have brought your dinner, papa," The blacksmith's daughter said,

As she took from her arm the kettle,
And lifted its steaming lid.
"There is not any pie or pudding,
So I will give you this ;"
And upon his toil-worn forehead
She left a childish kiss.
The blacksmith took off his apron,
And dining in a happy mood,
Wondering much at the savor
Hid in his humble food,
While all about him were visions
Full of prophetic bliss ;
But he never thought of the magic
In his little daughter's kiss.
While she, with her kettle swinging,
Merrily trudged away,
Stopping at sight of a squirrel,
Catching some wild bird's lay.
O, I thought, how many a shadow
Of life and fate we would miss,
If always our frugal dinners
Were seasoned with a kiss!

Only a boy?

-Commonwealth.

ONLY A BOY.

Only a healthy and rosy face,
Bearing of pain and grief no trace,
Save where at times the shadows play
Like the light clouds on a summer's day.
Only a boy?

Only a loving and trusting heart
That throbs and strains for a long life's start,
That yields in love to the gentle touch
Of one who will chide not overmuch.
Only a boy?

Only an earnest and longing soul
Through which wild fancies and wishes roll,
Peering from out those eager eyes

At the untried world that around them lies. Only a boy?

Only the germ of some unknown gain
To a world that wavers 'twix joy and pain.
Tell me of better gifts who can,

To give the world, than an honest man.

GOOD BYE WEAK HEART. As one who on the shore

Has found some pebble, deeming it a gem— But flings it by to think of it no more, When proved unfitting for a diadem-So, weakling heart, do I, too, fling thee by, Good Bye!

Ah! fickle soul, and poor!

Did'st deem that I should sit me down and

mourn,

Should's wail and sorrow for thee evermore; And quail before thy pity and thy snrco? Look on me now-both cheek and eye are dry! Good Bye!

I have great faith in life;

The wide-world is not thronged with such as thee;

I deem time's waves despite their angry strife, Will yet cast on life's shore a gem for me Hand clasped with thee, I might have let it lie. Good Bye!

Alone I stand-for now

With an uncertain sorrow in thy tone,
And with, perchance, a somewhat troubled brow,
Thou hast passed on. Ah, well, I vow

I shall not groan, nor weep, nor sigh.
Good Bye!

The day may come, lost friend

When thou shalt stand where I am standing

now,

Brooding upon its friendship and its end.

There may be in thine heart a yearning glow, "Too late! too late!" I say it sorrowingly. Good Bye! -Pictorial Australian.

THE PLACE FOR A BOY TO BE.
I send him a way in the morning,
When the sun is low in the east,
And he does not mind our parting,
Does not mind it in the least.
For in the school-room I tell him
Is the place for a boy to be.
So we say good-bye with many a smile,
And he throws back a kiss to me.

But oh! at last, in the evening,
When the sun is low in the west,

I see him coming home to me,
My dearest and my best!

I forget what I say in the morning,
And I think we both agree
That a mother's lap by the fireside
Is the place for a boy to be.

-New Orleans Chronicle.

DYING.

Passing out of the shadow
Into a purer light;
Stepping behind the curtain,
Getting a clearer sight;

Laying aside a burden,

This weary mortal coil; Done with the world's vexations, Done with its tears and toil; Tired of all earth's playthings Heartsick, and ready to sleep, Ready to bid our friends farewell, Wondering why they weep;

Passing out of the shadow

Into eternal day.
Why do we call it dying?
This sweet going away.

-Unidentified.

SEASONABLE TABLE SUPPLIES. [Gathered from New York Markets, expressly for GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.] BY MRS. F. A. BENSON.

FISH.

Fish benches are once more filled with a fine stock, the pink speckles of Rainbow trout, the silvery scales of shad, and the gorgeous crimson of Red Snappers making a bright display on the stands. Florida roe shad cost 75 cents, and bucks 40 cents. North Carolina roe shad bring $1.25 each, and bucks 75 cents. Lobsters are extremely scarce, those to be had costing 25 cents a pound. Haddock roes are in considerable demand, because they make an excellent and economical breakfast dish; they cost 10 cents a pound, a pair weighing three-quarters of a pound. Frogs' legs are 50 cents a pound. There are a few rock crabs again in market costing 75 cents a dozen. Hardshell crabs are $3 a hundred. Picked crab meat, much in demand for croquettes, salads and devilled crab, is 40 cents a pound. Both oysters and crabs are very scarce, owing to the quantities of ice where these are taken. Morris Cove, Prince's Bay and Blue Point oysters are 75 cents a hundred. Saddle Rock oysters are $3 a hundred. East River and Shrewsbury oysters cost $1.50 a hundred. Large, hardshell clams bring $1.25 a hundred. Soft in-shell clams are 75 cents a hundred. Little Neck clams are 50 cents a hundred; scallops bring $2 a gallon. Green turtle is 23 cents a pound. Diamond back terrapin appear in sizes of six, seven and eight inches, costing from $3, $4, and $5 each. Long Island smelt are selling for 25 cents a pound. Oregon salmon costs 35 cents a pound when the whole fish is purchased, and 40 cents a pound for choice cuts. Large bluefish are 20 cents a pound. Red Snappers are plentiful and 15 cents a pound. Halibut is 20 cents a pound. Canada frozen smelts may be bought from 8 to 15 cents a pound. Large white perch cost 18 cents, and small ones 10 cents a pound. Frozen Spanish mackerel are 40 cents a pound. Fresh mackerel are 15 cents each for large ones and 10 cents for small ones. These fish are never sold by the pound, but by the piece in New York markets. Blackfish bring 15 cents; frostfish, 8 cents, and flounders 12 cents a pound. Pickerel are 15 cents; hall-eyed pike also 15 cents, and frozen Cisco 10 cents a pound. Market and live codfish are ro cents, and cod steaks are 12 cents a pound. Sheepshead bring 18 and 20 cents a pound. Eels cost 18 cents a pound. Haddock is 8 cents a pound. Striped bass appear only in small lots, boiling sizes costing 35 cents a pound, and pan bass 20 cents a pound. Oyster crabs are $2 a quart, and Rainbow trout are $1.25 a pound.

SALT AND SMOKED FISH.

Oregon salmon is now salted and smoked, being pronounced quite equal to New Nova Scotia smoked salmon. The curing of this fish will keep the market constantly supplied with new smoked salmon, which is a delicacy heretofore only possible at certain seasons. It is 25 cents a pound. Salted stockfish imported from Norway, are the novelty of pickled fish-benches; they require soaking for three days before eating. The price is 25 cents a pound. Extra quality of smoked shad is 25 cents a pound, while an ordinary quality costs 20 cents a pound. Salted and smoked shad is highly esteemed as a relish by those fond of cured fish. Pickled oysters are $2 a hundred. Pickled mussels are 30 cents a quart. Other preserved fish remain as last quoted.

MEATS.

Calves arriving in market this week show an improvement in veal. Loin veal is 24 cents a pound; leg veal is 22 cents, breast veal is 15 cents, and veal cutlet is 28 cents a pound; shoulder of veal is 15 cents, ribs of veal are 24 cents; calves' heads cost 60 cents each; calves' haslets are 75 cents each; calves' feet are 40 cents a set of four. Sweet-breads cost from 25 cents to 80 cents a pair. Leading butchers state that it is extremely difficult to procure choice cattle; that there is a dearth of these in Kentucky, which is usually depended upon at this time of year for the best steers and sheep. Prime rib roast is 20 cents, and porter house steaks and roasts are 28 cents a pound; sirloin steak is 10 cents, flat-bone steak is 20 cents, and round bone steak is 18 cents a pound; fresh rump beef is 15 cents, help roast is 15 cents, and leg beef is 7 cents a pound; filet beef is 60 cents a pound; filets of Chicago beef weigh from 4 to 7 pounds each and cost 35 cents a pound; plate and navel corned beef is 10 cents, and rump corned beef is 15 cents a pound; ox-tails are 10 cents each; beef liver is 10 cents a pound; beef kidneys are 15 cents. Carcasses of "spring" hot-house lamb are now hung up on meat-hooks, each one being swaddled with white cloth to protect the tender flesh from cold or dust. Hindquarters cost $5.50 and forequarters $4. Hindquarters of winter lamb cost 16 cents, and forequarter 10 cents a pound; back chops are 20 cents and leg chops 15 cents a pound. Shoulder of lamb is 10 cents, and breast of lamb 8 cents a pound. Hindquarters of mutton is 15 cents, forequarter is 10 cents, and English saddle is 20 cents a pound; shoulder of mutton is 8 cents; both "English" and "French" mutton chops are 25 cents a pound; the " English" chops are cut two inches thick and "French" chops have the bone trimmed clean for the regula

tion pantalette of tissue paper that so daintily garnishes these tender morsels when broiled. Fresh pork is 12 cents a pound; pork tenderloins are 18 cents, and pork chops are from 10 to 12 cents a pound. Sucking pigs cost from $2.50 to $3 each. Tripe is 8 cents a pound.

POULTRY AND GAME.

Rocky-mountain sheep are hung among saddles of antelope and bear meat in game stalls; they are very fat, their flesh resembling that of bears in flavor; it is 25 cents a pound; antelope and bear meat have declined to 20 cents a pound; squabs are 60 cents each for white ones, and 40 cents for dark ones; stall-fed pigeons bring $3 a dozen. English snipe shot beyond Indian Territory are prime and fat; these cost 30 and 35 cents each. Corn plover bring $1.50 a dozen. Small snipe, and small birds used for game pies are 50 cents a dozen. Rice birds are $1 a dozen. Ptarmigan are $1 a brace; English hares are $4 a brace; English pheasants bring $3.50 a brace; Guinea fowls cost $1.50 a pair; wild geese are $1 each; wild swans bring $1.50 each; canvas-back ducks cost $4.50 a brace; red-head ducks are $2 a brace (these are from Havre de Grace); Norfolk, Va., canvas-back ducks are $3 a brace, and red-heads from the same locality cost $1.50 a brace. The latter are inferior in size and flavor. Mallard ducks are $1.25 a brace; brant ducks cost $1.50 a brace; teal ducks are 872 cents a brace. Green-wing teal, gray, wood, black-head and widgeon ducks are all 75 cents a brace.

BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE.

Butter from the valleys of the Big Elk river is arriving sweet and golden in color; it is 50 cents a pound; Western creamery and new state butter costs 38 cents a pound; Western dairy butter brings 33 and 35 cents a pound; state dairy butter costs 20, 25, 28 and 30 cents a pound; cooking butter brings from 12 to 16 cents a pound. Cheese costs from 8 to 14 cents a pound. Long Island and New Jersey eggs bring 30 cents a dozen; state eggs cost 28 cents a dozen; Western eggs are 26 cents a dozen and limed eggs bring 20 cents a dozen.

VEGETABLES.

Vegetable stands are showing a fine variety of hot-house and southern supplies. Green peas from Florida costs $1 a half peck. Hot-house asparagus is 75 cents a quart. Hot-house borage is 10 cents a quart. Hot-house cucumbers bring 30 and 50 cents each, and those from New Orleans cost 25 cents each. Hot-house cauliflowers are very fair and handsome; they bring $1 a head. Hot-house egg plants are also $1 each. Hot-house tomatoes are 75 cents a pound; Florida tomatoes cost from 30 to 50 cents a quart. Bermuda potatoes bring So cents a peck. Bermuda onions cost $2.50 a crate containing six quarts; they are 50 cents a quart. Hot-house rhubarb is 10 cents a bunch. Spinach is 50 cents a peck. Hot-house dandelion is 25 cents a quart. Hot-house beet tops are $1 a half peck. Bermuda beets cost 15 cents a quart. Fresh okra is 40 and 50 cents a hundred. Spanish sweet peppers $1.50 a dozen. French artichokes cost 30 cents each; Jerusalem artichokes are 10 cents a quart. Lettuce from Boston hot-house cost from 5 to 10 cents a bunch. Imported Brussels sprouts are 50 cents a quart; those domestic are 30 cents a quart. Cranberries bring from 8 to 15 cents a quart. Celery is from 10 to 15 cents a head. Imported German cabbages cost 25 cents a head; domestic cabbages are 10 and 20 cents a head. Sweet potatoes cost 25 cents a half peck; potatoes are 30 cents a peck. Southern beans are 35 cents a quart. Parsnips are 30 cents a dozen and carrots are 15 cents a dozen. Mushrooms are 75 cents a pound. The best potatoes arrive from Maine and Nova Scotia; they cost $2.50 and $2.75 a barrel; New York state and Vermont potatoes bring $2.50 a barrel. White onions cost $5 and $6 a barrel; yellow onions bring $3 and $3.50; red onions are $3.25 and $3.75 a barrel.

FRUIT.

Baldwin and Greening apples cost $2,50 a barrel; “Swaar" apples, which are much like Greenings, are $2.25 a barrel; Spitzbergen apples cost from $2.50 to $5 a barrel; Seek-no-further apples sell for from $2.25 to $3 a barrel; Roxbury and Golden Russet apples are $2.50 and $3.50 a barrel; Northern Spye apples cost $3 and $3.50 a barrel. Florida oranges are showing the effects of severe weather at the South; all have to be selected as the majority of them are dry and coarse; the best Indian River fruit is 60 cents a dozen; Indian River russet oranges are 40 cents a dozen; both Florida Mandarin and Tangerine oranges are 75 cents a dozen; Mediterranean Mandarins are less-priced 50 cents a dozen; Florida blood oranges are 75 cents a dozen. Lemons are from 20 to 30 cents a dozen. Havana pineapples are extremely fine and large costing 30 and 40 cents each. Selected Malaga Grapes bring 50 cents a pound; the ordinary run of them are 25 and 30 cents a pound; hot-house grapes are not excellent; they cost $3.50 a pound; Concord grapes are disappearing; they are 8 cents a pound; Catawba grapes hold out well, and are 15 cents a pound; Grape fruit is $1 a dozen. California pears are becoming very scarce and cost from $2 to $3.50 a dozen. Limes are 15 cents a dozen; Cocoanuts cost 10 cents each. Red bananas are out of market; yellow ones bring from 25 cents to 40 cents a dozen.