Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — Value of Roman Slaves. [ARTICLE]

Value of Roman Slaves.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat It is very curious to read in an old Roman history of the prices paid for slaves in the palmy days of the Empire. As a general thing, a laborer sould be bought for about SBO of our money, but after a province had been conquered or a great victory won, hundreds would sometimes be bought for $5 or $lO apiece. After the siege jf Jerusalem by Titus : the price of slaves fell to $4. Skilled laborers and irtisans brought more. A gardener was worth about S3OO, a blacksmith I 1700, a good cook brought $2,500, an ictor or actress $5,000, and a physician SIO,OOO. Hot bread for breakfast is regarded as a necessity throughout the South, and the best Southern cooks understand the- art of preparing this hixury so that it shall do the minimum of harm to the stomach of the consumer. The protean corn bread s in large measure depended upon :o furnish the breakfast table, and ;t is a difficult matter to make that compound anything but wholesome. Wheaten bread, however, is prepared by the best Southern cooks so ;hat it shall be quickly cooked, light lot, and yet done through and through so that nobody is forced to throw away the middle and eatmereTy the crusts.