Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
ror cash. f. o. b, ST, Louis, hot blast coke
THE MARKET BASKET.
Cost of Sunday Dinner as Before-Grapes
Waning-Eggs Scarce.

There have been few changes in the line of
market basket filling the past week. In fruit
and vegetable lines prices remain essentially
the same as last Saturday. Tomatoes and lima
beans are things OF the past and grapes soon
will be. Hot-house tomatoes and cucum5ers
are on the stalls at prices which would make
sad inroads on the average pocketbook. With
tomatoes at SOC quart and cueumbers at 25c
apiece. the average citizen must of necessity
abstain. Mushrooms are also to be had but. at
81 per b, only those with whom cost is no item
can indulge. A few orders from hotels for
Thanksgiving reached to five six pounds.
Family orders seldom go above one pound.
Price of poultry, eggs and butter varies very
little from last Saturday. Strictly fresh near
by eggs are hard to be had at any price,
Florists report good week. Society is lively
at this time, and demand for floral decorations
has been good the past week. Thanksgiving
made special demands, and the matrimonial
fever seems to be raging of late. Recent froSts
have stimulated prices in floral lines.
Butchers are like the Medes and Persians,
rarely changing rules, whatever the ups and
downs of live stock, and price of staple meats
remains as it has been for the past year or two.
Tenderloin steaks and rib rOasrs command the
same price when beeves are 81 75 per cwt as
when they were Sc to 81.
Following are latest retail prices of market
basket materials:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
fancy; sirloin. best cuts, from l5 to lSc;
standing rib roast, from 10 to 20c; chuck roast.
10 to 12c; best round steaks l212 to J5c; boiling
beef, to &c. sweet breads 20 to JOcper pair: beef
kidneys, l0c apiece; beef liver, &c pound; calf
ivers % to 35c apiece; corned beef from 10 to l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands Ice;
roast, 1215 to l5ci cu.lets 2Oc per pound' spring
lambs fore quarter 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
loc. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality brings l212c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets. &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Cabbage, S to lOc; potatoes. 2Oc per half peck;
bananas, l5 to 2Oc dozen: carrots, Sc bunch;
lemons, 50 to 40c per dozen; Oranges, 25 TO Soc;
caullflower, 10 to 40c head; lettuce, sc per
bunch; beets. SC per bunch, S5c per dozen;
cucumbers 10 to Csc apiece: apples. 15 to 2Oc a
quarter peck; celery. SC bunch; pie pumpkins.
10 to 25c; Delaware and Niagara grapes, 10c a
pound; Concord grapes, &C pound.
Choice creamery butter, 35c Good country
butter. 20 to Csc. Fancy pound rolls, 80 to 35c
Fresh country eggs. Soc
The range for dressed chickens is SOC to 81 90
per pair: ducks, 60c to 81 90; turkeys, I6QlSc;
geese, 12Ql3c.
Venison, 35e pound; squirrels, 4Oc pair;
rabbits SOC; quails, 81 dozen; pheasants 81 50
a pair; woodcock. Sc dozen; snipe, 81 so
dozen; prairie chickens. 81 % pair: Malard
ducks, 81 pair; butter ducks, SOC pair; jack
rabbits 81 apiece.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices Lake salmon, 10 to 121Sc;
California salmon. 35c per pound; white fish,
l21&c: herring, 4 pounds for sc; Spanish
mackerel, 40c pound; blue hsh, l5c; halibut,
Zoe: rock bass, 25c; black bass, l5c; lake trout,
l215c; HOLSTERS, 2Oc: green sea turtle, 20 to &c
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 90 per gallon; CLANS
81 so per gallon; smelts, 20c pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 90 per dozen; Mermets, 81 so
per dozen; Brides. 81 so per dozen; yellow and
white 81 Is per dozen; Bennetts. 81 25 per dozen;
Beauties. 70c apiece; carnations Soc per dozen;
chrysanthemums, 81 so to 81 co per dozen;
Duchess of Albany, s. 90 per dozen; violets
81 so per 100; heliotrope, soc per dozen; lily
of valley, 81 so per dozen.