Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-02-08
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The Markets.

=, BAiTIkoRE, February s:-Virgnis sizes. peelers,
special tax s bid to-day sugar steady, ioSs : w.
ti1s-low middlinss,. IS: Flour .uet--HowaTa s.,
and western upper, 4a4 2; do. extra ti2ai75; do
Gas =; do. Rio brands, go; do. family, 500.
Sd Il wTiefn aeG I'd i No TS 1q
southern white. 76a7S southern yellow, 70; west
era, s7a6s; western white, o7a6s western mixed s4a
20 Rye s1iet and 9nS hanged Hay duli-Pennsyl-
and firm. Pork steady ~ 90. Bulk meas-sho udars,
Las clear rib sides. lOal0i<, BACON unchanged.
western tubs and roll, 2aeT Petroleum steady. -,
Coffee qnetand unchanged. Whisky irmeT, bat
Nkw YoKr, February S.-StocLs dull. Money. :.
Cold, hi4 Exchange. long, $50 short, 49, Gov
NEW ,YcRE, February s-Flour dull ard un-
changed Wheat Guiet and unchaI ged. Corn dull
LONDON, February s, $3.50 p MI. g, SO
sShis i 80 old IVA lsc's, iC+' EEie Railway
Arm hvE mGii, TGh}rgqqgy l2q m@Gotton
77sas; sales I50OO bales including 4GU for spacmia'
ton and export. Cotton To arrive easier; sales on
mihdlng,, shipped February and March al :.
92jsas: and for the sCcautt. g2ssa'. Adyres from
Paris quote rentes at g. francs - Confines
LiyEkPooL, February Z, ? n. nj otton-Sales on
tine. basis Of middling up!ands nothing below good
ordinary shipped January aud February, At
"a; Do. do, February and March, At 1915,
81 -, do do shipped January and February, Ia
Sale on the basis ot mjddIiUg ORLEANS; nothing
March at T. l.. Bread tuiis guic.: Cheese Us per
cyt for IA. best grades Of American fine Tsllow,
L4I>0oy., February 2, $50 2. n-Thc am, mt Of
hniil'n ilntt3 " rom he bank OF ENE5nd"n Dat
rtutcs az Is Francs u c.Htirao-.
FRhSFFoRr, February ST &. fve-twenty bonds,
,LLyIERroo5i. February 3, 80 p. m.--Cott,n-of
the sales to-qay $50 bales we're American;
sL5T"s &a2!14 Paris dispatches quote reIItes vt
LrvFRPooL, February s. $50 T. m.-Cotton sale,
on the basis II middlng UTlaHds; nothing below low
mdiings shipped February and March, "a; 10. d..
shIpped harch and April at ). Refined petroleum ,
@salJH4 per gallon.
TIE DINNER TABLE of the future is 10 be
made with a center, and an outer + IN, en-
tirciy separate. The outer rim viii hold
plates, glasses and other furniture peculiar
10 the wants of each guest sitting opposite
them. The central portion will bear dishes
ana other recepiacleS designed for the COM
mon use of all guests, and from which each
is 10 be served in turn. The obvious suggCs-
ton Is this, that the outer rim of the table is
TO be stationary, like the chair in which sits
the guest, while the central table. on which
are placed articles needed in turn by one and
another of the guests, is to TevOlVe and pre-
sent these articles for use one after another.
This suggestion is about 10 take shape We
shall be surprised that we have not sooner
awaited OF il. 1t viii not be wholly new. Be
fore this little car bearing sugar, CrGam1
castor and bTead-tTay has been placed upon
central track on a long bOarding-house
table and dispatched from end to end at the
Will Of the bOardeTs; and before this round
table, furnished with a central iHII-fOUatain
and drawers for papers around its Circum-
ference, has been mounted on pivot 50 rs 10
present either Of its fronts at VIII 10 the
writer sitting still in his armchair.
USING THE SABE TOwEL-Hcal;h fol-
lows neatnCsS, and disease the departure
from IL. The use of the same towel by maHv
common in public place though more al
lOWabIe Than the use Of the same tOoth-brus 81 .
IS, nevertheless, a not much healthier ur3c-
tee. A prom incEt OcGliSt saws that the con
tag!Ous Egyptian or granular Inflammation
OF the eyes Is spreading rapidly throughout
the country. and adds have in many
and may say in the majority of cases, been
able to trace The disease 70 the use Of the So
called rOlIlnG-tOWClS. Such towels are gen
orally found in our country hotels and tn.
sleeping apartments of the working classes
and being thus used by nearly every one. are
made the carriers Of one Of the most danger
Gus. and as regards its symptoms. mGst
troublesome diseases of the eye. | therefore
would strongly recommend that the use OF
tine rOlliDg-tOWel be abolished for thereby
we will discard one of the great instruments
for the spread Of such n dangerous disease
OF the eye, by which thousands of WORKING
men are annually deprived Of their means OF
support"