Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-10-21

A Paris correspondent writes: All the |
shops being open on Sunday morning in |
Paris this peculiar people, who live only
from hand TO mouth, first bought their
breakfast, and then started out to buy
their dinners. They first Invested in q
little bunch of kindling wood to start the
fire with, and then a little bag of charcoal
to keep it going The person who bought
more than day or two's supply OF fuel
would be looked upon as foe to the
State, 80 fixed is the public habit Of
buying only enough for the day. The
kindling-wood and charcoal shops are as
prominent and numerous along the
streets as any others, and they display
their goods in the windows as attractive
y as possible, the kindliug wood neatly
tied in small bundles sold at one aud
half cents apiece, the coal in square
blocks, and the charcoal in bags, varying
from ten to fifty cents apiece.
If the frewood is wanted by some ar
istocrat who is bold snongh to establish
fireplace, he pays for it at the rate Of
about two centa a stick, and he buys
just enough to last till the dinner is over
and the company bids farewell ia the
evening In food the range is somewhat
restricted, the Parisian suying almost
everything by weight, at so much for the
kilogrnmme, which corresponds to near
ly two and one-third pounds. Reducing
the prices paid to American money, and
the purchases to pounds, it is found that
Parisians pay about forty-two cents per
pound for veal, thirty-six cents for ordi.
nary rump steak and forty tosiIty cents
for beef.stesk, and thirty Eve to forty
cents for mutton chop, thirty.eight cents
for leg of mutton, sixty four cents for
coffee, 81 to 81 20 for ordinary tea, four
and half cents for bread, fifty cents
for butter, forty.eight cents for ordinary
ham, and seventy cents for boiled ham
sold in slices at the shops (the ussl way
in which it is bought. fifteen cents for
loaf sugar broken into the accurately
square Jumps universally used here
eight cents quart for milk, four cents
each for tomatoes, and twelve cents 8
halt peck for potatoes.
These are the usual prices now paid
for these articles, aud although the hsl
does not include all, it shows tie
high price at which most article,
of food are sold in Paris Thii
is due not only to the increased charges
consequent upon the Exposition, but
also To the "octrei, or city customs
Paris leyying hesvy duty upon almns
everything brought into the city in ordel
to raise revenue. But with these verl
high prices, the Parisians can still livl
[ more cheaply than in most other places
, owing to the small value Of the articles o
-, food they subsist upon, and the absence
Of waStefulness ! do not suppose there
g was dinner, outside Of the hotel servet
D 10 Paris yesterday Sunday Of whicl
0 the food that composed It was not bough
at the shops and markets on Sunds,
morning. This important business over
the poBulace started for the days anus,
ment--to the Exposition to The theater
and cafes, to tie Boulevard or to Vei
seilles. The first Sunday in the moutl
at least 100000 people directed the
steps TO that famous city and palace, br
Q Paris could readily tparp them for il
eludng the strangers attracted b
i the Exposition, there are probabl
=, 5000, 900 population here now.