Evening journal., 1889-11-26
BE Truly IHANkEIll-.
Several Incidents and Current Prices for
Thanksgiving Dav.


Thanksgiving Day.
The housewife is in ouandarv
Thanksgiving Day is coming and she
wishes to have different program of
exercises for dinner than previous years
have shown. new and unique idea
may be put in practice on that day. but
II never can equal the old-fashioned tur-
key and pumpkin pie free and easy
thanksgiving celebration Let us have
the latter, by all means. No necessity ex.
lists for explaining why we should be
thankful, for he who is not thankful is
not worth considering. Possibly the
members of the lrma Club have nothing
TO De thankful for, and yet they ought
to be glad they were not more seriou slv
involved. The city solicitor is doubtless
truly thankful for his success In brino.
ing the young scoundrels to conviction.
The fathers and mothers of Wilmington
are thankful for Mr.. Turner's success
This is one of the matters which we will
all lremember in our thank offerings
Such wordy grace should be followed
by square meal
The market for this season of 1880 is
marked by firm prices and steady busi-
ness. This season spurs the market
women to early visits to the farmers,
and truckers stands. Many persons have
already made arrangements for the
Thanksgiving Day turkey or rabbits or
ducks, or whatever the principal dish
may be. Here is the plan adopted by the
paternal head of a large family He
would purchase turket for Thankspiv.
ing Day and would hang it by the heels
from the second story back window. There
it stayed until Christmas. Then it was
taken down and sent through various
processes until New Years Day. when n
was served for dinner The old man
found the scheme great success. as the
children watched the turkey from
Thanksgiving Day until Christmas. and
hardly ate anything in that time, SO that
the enjoyment of the turkey should not
be mixed with alloy.
Turkeys are scarce; hen turkeys sell
at 20 cents pound; gobbler's at is
cents. Chickens are IA and 16 cents a
pound. Tame ducks are IA cents pound.
The above prices are for dressed poultry
Poultry is so scarce that the ''desply
does not equal the command. wild ducks
are high, naturally; black heads, al so
per pair; red heads, 81 so per pair Up.
S.-White horses are not quoted canvas
back ducks are so high that nona Of
them are in this market. Partridges are
So dozen; quail are SO DOZEN few of
these birds are in market. Rabbits are
5O go cents a pair, scarce, because
there are none Squads sell at 40 cents
pair,
Speaking of rabbits and game gener-
ally There are some men who have not
the time to hunt; they take other means
to an end. Mr. Seldom orders three rab-
bits and a dozen partridges from his game
dealer, by telephone, and has them sent to
his office. He takes his hunting suit and
gun to the office early in the morning and
dons the suit in the afternoon. When
Market street is crowded with promena-
ders he sallies forth with the gun
in one hand, the game in
the other; he walks with an
ve-been-hunting- -all-dayD air and
a "But.I-g gothic game McGinty" express
sion on his face. AS he meets acquaint-
ances he explains about the five rabbits
he could not find, although he knew he
killed them; OF the time his gun hung
fire when he had good shot at brace
Of wild ducks-and everyone believes
him. The afternoon paper breaks up his
story, when it states that one of its beau.
tiful young men had interviewed Mr..
Seldom for three hours that morning on
the Meat in Sandwiches. Circumstan-
tial evidence is not always good, but GER
tainly, in this case, it killed three rabbits
and twelve birds.
Let us all be thankful that Mr.. s. did
not tell higher story.
The next necessity for our Thanksgiv-
ing dinner is a disputed point, so the
prices OF the various accessories will be
given: Cranberries, 10 and 10 cents
quart; pumpkins, Is to 25 cents; mincs
meat, 10 cents pound and two for 25 cents !;
sweet potatoes, 20 cents half peck .
white potatoes, - and 10 cents; onions, 90
cents; spinach, 10 cents; celery, and 7
cents stalk eggs, 33 and 35 cents q
dozen; tub butter, 25 cents a pound !;
print butter, 33 and 80 cents; cheese. is
cents; cabbage, and cents a head;
apples all varieties, scarce and high, 20
to 30 cents hslfpeck lemons. 90 cents a
dozen oranges, 80 cents; bananas, Is and
20 cents; grapes, 90 and % cents pound /;
caulihower, % to 40 cents head
With all this evidence of good things
where is the man who will say he has
Taught to be thankful for2 If such a
man exists he must be stingy enough to
ask the Journal Printing Company to
furnish diagram foI every joke ca that
appears in the EVENING JOURNAL.