Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1881 — Prices in Paris. [ARTICLE]

Prices in Paris.

[Prentice MnWra in Sen Francisco CtamWe.J Brandy is cheap; sixty cento buys a quart of a good article. Thirty cento buys a bottle of good wine. Oto also buy a bottle for six cents; not so good. Half poor wine, half ’pump. WineS fit cabarete or oommon rum-shops, miserable; puckers tongue and upsets stomach. Gin quite unknown; gin a myth. Seltzer water by the bottle three cento. New potatoes, six cento a kilo, which is short for kilogramme. Fluids sold by the litre; a kilo is a little over a pound: a litre is something over a quart; a metre is a French yard. Official yard seen marked in black paint in public places. Strawberries ten cento a pound; have weighed them here, thirty to the pound. Green beans, eight cento per quart, shelled. Butter never salted; best variety twenty and twenty-five cents per pound; price reduced as it increases its age ana strength. . Fresh eggs three ranta each. Radishes in bunches as large as a baby’s head; one cent Milk four cento par quart; usually with much water; generally boiled in summer. Cream almost unobtainable; fresh, unskimmed milk passes here for cream. At a creamerie they wiH tell you they get cream from the country fresh twice a week.