Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-10-19
Mysteries of Bread.

q statement in the last accounts from Europe that
the price of bread in Paris one franc for four
pound loaf-hat is, little less than ,fue cents q
pound. The writer says he has weighed several
oaves, from different bakeries in Baltimore and
found them to weigh as follows, almost uniformly
Five cent loaves weigh ounces; six and quarter
cent loaves weigh l51 to l6 ounces The writer
says what puzzles him is, how the Parisians can
afford purchase flour at 81 IS per bbl, pay freight,
say IS CENTS commissions insurance, wharfage, in
land transportation in France, &C., and still sell
their bread at cents pound twenty per cent
cheaper than it is sold for here. This is a great
mystery! Who explain it? ''You may rely
upon it, says the correspondent, that when this
immense amount of -four and grain that the present
excitement in the flour market is sending forward,
shall arrive in Europe there will be reaction that
will be serious to the spectators. If Baltimore -four
is worth but forty shillings in Liverpool it cannot be
worth more than thirty shillings here for that
ket, TO make legitimate saving trade. In estimating
the comparative value of bread and flour, it is a
good rule to allow for pound of bread half as many
cents as a barrel of -four is worth in dollars thus
If the price of flour be 50 per barrel the value Of the
bread made from it is four and half cents pound.
If barrel of -four costs $lO, theI. the value of the
bread made from it is five cents pound AS there
are 1856 pounds of flour in barrel, the empty barrel
will be worth the other pounds, so that we allow
200 pounds to the barrel. If the baker is allowed
all the bread he make out of barrel of -four
over 200 pounds, as his profits he will be doing
good business, making about IS to 33 cents in con-
sequence of the water and salt added 10 the -four:
During the war OF 1912, the government received
from the bakers pound two ounces of bread for
every pound of -four furnished them, and on those
terms the bakers realized fortunes"
ENGLISH WoMAN's DEFENCE OF SLAVERY We
hear from pretty good authority that the Honorable
Miss Murray, the distinguished English lady who
has been travelling in the United States for some
months past, is preparing book of observation and
aritiC1 NJ
she intends to Utndcae the institution of Slaverv from
the misrepresentation of Uncle TOMS Cabin Unless
we have been entirely misinformed, Miss Murray
has to the conclusion the result of her per-
sonal observation, that the social institutions OF the
Southern States decidedly in advance of those OF
any other portion of this country that q higher
degree Of culture and refinement is to be found there
than elsewhere in the Union that Slavery is a
blessing rather than curse to the negroes them.
Selves and that the pictures of its crueltes and afro
cities, given by Mrs Stowe in her celebrated novel
are either very gross exaggeratons so exceptional
as not at all to be taken into the account when form
ing judgment Of the institution itself She will
make this prominent feature in her Forthcoming
book, and designs, we understand, to enter upon a
special refuation of the views and representations
of Mrs. Sowe.-Neu York Times
TAKERS Undoubtedly the highest personal &C
compshment in the world is to be good talker.-
With this charm alone John Wilkes, though prod
gy OF personal uglness, the most attractive man
OF his time. 1t takes me-" he said to Lord Sand
wlch, just fifteen minutes to take my face off" II
was this power, and not his poems, nor his diction
ary nor his heavy letters from the Hebrides, thai
made Dr. Johnson the autocrat of his day among mer
OF culture, and will keep his memory green while the
English language rcmains to prove that in spite Of
his booshness and insolence, and absurd peiudices
he was the most charming talker the world has seen
1t was this power, more than all Others that made
the trends OF Coleridge forget that he was deficient
IN manly honor, (the most fatal of defects that he
vas slave to one of the worst vices, and won fol
him not merely the admiration but the love and es
TEEN of all who listened to his wonderful uterances
In our own country there have been as yet many
notable conversationsts. We are a nation Of speech
makers, but good takers are exceedingly rare. W.
talk enough God knows), but good takers REQUIRE
more culture, more leisure, more repose than We
shall know for many years to come