Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1875 — Perfectly Satisfactory. [ARTICLE]

Perfectly Satisfactory.

She said she’d take a dozen of eggs, but while the grocer was counting them out she asked the price. He told her and she shrieked: “ Seventeen cents?” “ Yes, ma’am.” “Why, that’s outrageousl” “ Well, it’s hard times and everything is up.” She sat down on a sugar barrel, sighed several times and asked if eggs were likely to be lower or higher. “ I don’t claim to be a prophet,” he replied, as he twisted a sheet of paper into the shape of a tunnel, “ but I dare say that they’ll be down to sixteen and one-half cents in less than a week, and perhaps go lower. Trade, which is naturally depressed during July and August, is looking up a little. Our exports of gold are now equaled by our imports. The calling in of bonds puts more ready money afloat, and capitalists are much more hopeftil this week than last. The crops are about ready to move, navigation prospects are brighter, and public confidence in financial measures is rapidly returning. One thing moves around another, you see, and though, as I said before, I am not a financier and my predictions are not entitled to any great weight, it seems clear to me that eggs have got to come down. A great current of eggs is setting toward this point from a dozen different directions, and even if the calling in of bonds and the sale of surplus gold don’t produce lower prices I cannot see why figures should go up.” She reached into the pickle barrel, nipped a cucumber, and went away wondering why her husband never knew anything.—Detroit Free Press.