Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-26
MARxrr MUSINGS.
Paahanase's Peripatetic Perigrfns-
tiena Among the Market People.

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Paahanaae's Peripatetic Pertgrtns-
tiens Among the Market People.
In Oscar Wilde's untarlied Riverside edi-
fion OF poenis is the following elusive
ness, which is complete in itself, and
wisely made short:
mi the We, waves drenehed hair and face
The Y foas i ed tss Of the dying dsX ,,..,,,,
Ana 20 VI i Ssisd as Is fafi q pain
And Sss ss. FsSs s5ss sSafs
My asss gaped u..:ss with many break and
! pathleslss, threw them as my anal cos. Z
Into q sea. ana waited ios n ne end sa
the argent splendor OF white limbs ascend,
| And In that JOY forgot my tortured past = z
Without disrespect to the effusion Of the
Wild man with the knee breeches and
worshipper of the snnfiower and the pea
cock feather, the market man OF the kEGls
/ thing which he claims will stand up along
| side OF the quoted matter above:
Invent to market early yester morn,
I And indigestible sauerkraut there met my
A bSxom matron not disguised with stays,
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! Pale glowed the stalks of celery on her stand
While auburn onions breathed o rare per-
fume,
! sGwell I'll he -
! An echo from La Belle river presume.
! flew the track and priced TAT ducks anu egg,
Communed with hucksters about the STATE
! And shortly after exercised my willing legs
| In going for a heated lemonade.
The contrast afforded at the market house
I yesterday to that presented on market
morning in July, is startling TO say the
least. In summer the protruding tongues
OF wagons all around the building puts one
in mind of the hoar-frost on the cylinder oil
$50 music box. Yesterday, at q A. NJ, there
were but four country vehicles lodged on
the west side of the food arsenal alluded to:
Each and every one of the proprietors OIL
the quartette of wagons had nothing to sell
but turkeys, chickens, geese, eggs, butter
and honey with the following rates afhXed'
Turkeys, 1910 pound for heavy weights
l5c for Bernhardt birds. Chickens from ~
TO 4Oc each, according exclusively 70
weight and size, age left altogether
ont of the question. Ducks the same price,
| although there were some on exhibition
that would have made either good paper
cutters orsear muffs. Geese sold at l22C
per pound, honey at 25c per pound ana
butter at Csc. 4 dealer who only had
one chicken and martyred turkey 70 Keep
1t in countenance quoted the former HOWL
at sixty cents a pair.
There was an apparent plethora OF krau'
in market preventing a corner on the
ten cent rate established for quart. In
buying kraut it is always well to know
whether il is hand made or manufactured
by other process that is not so recommen
datory to people of keen perceptiye powers
in the olfactory region.
NV brown-eyed girl and her demure fem
mime neighbor both informed me that Gel
cry is getting so scarce that Us ooarding
houses have quit buying 1t. Horseradlsn
is procurable at five cents bunch and
beets at ten cents quarter peck, which Is
apparently pretty stiff considering the
mammoth number in town whose names
we have not space in this issue to publish
Market would be but CHASTITY mockery
without cake stands counters filled with
cotton socks, neckties and pen wipers, and
booths glistening with tin pie plates, milS
swimmers and pound pudding pans
But of course no quotations cal
be given in these lines. To be appre
ciated it must be seen, and when charm
ing business-like little woman presides
the attraction is explained along with tn!
conundrum why so many young married
men like to 20 to market.
But to return to our mutton. A gentl'
butcher kindly gave US the following NJ
ures on meats: Best steaks, 10 cents; roast
121l cents; boiling meat, and 8 cents
: pork and sausage, 12H cents; lard, TIVE
, hounds for 25 cents: veal outlets, Is to y
cents; ham, sliced, IS cents.
There was but one fish stant
open, the dealer quoting bass an'
Jack at so cents per string, string weigh
ing about four pounds, and perch annt
suckers at 25 cents a string, with an ayoir
. dupois OF about three pounds.
II Apples sold for 80 cents peck; sWee
potatoes at GO cents; do Irish potatoes, Ear
II ~ Rose 40 cents a peck, and Burbank o.
Peachblows at IS cents. Dried apples sew
|, en- cents per pound, and turnips 20 cents
neck. This covers about all there was ii
market, and at the hour of visitation by
the writer, purchasers were rather few.