The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-13

tAAab Way 4Aity ilEH pll " kkit EVAAF
dictor, and they get ont on the cross
lug and stand so near the car that 1t is
wonderful they nre not run over some
times. IL the conductor does not hear
them or sec them, they poke him with
an umbrella.
SOME OF THE CURRENT PRICES.
Strawberries of varying size and
quality are sold to the general public
now all the way from four baskets for u
quarter to fifteen cents u basket. The
canning establishments are said to buy
very fair berries DIT five cents, and as
long rs they are willing to pay that
there is no likelihood Of the prevailing
prices for canning berries getting lower
than now.
Rhubarb has been down to two
punches for nickel, and after the re-
cent rains ought to be again as low, but
this week it has sold at five cents. At
this price it is cheap. In scarce fruit
years housekeepers will find canned
rhubarb very good property in the
winter months. 1t is not often canned
because other fruit is too cheap, ordi-
narily. Rhubarb jelly is also q fine use
Of the ''pie plant which few
people seem to know experiment
ally. Asparagus. has also been
down to five cents a bunch this season,
but has again gone UP to two lunches
for fifteen. 1t may be expected TO be-
como cheaper. New potatoes sell ALTO
cents u quarter peck, and at that rate
there is still good sale for old ones at
forty cents peck. "Greensp arc 20
cents peck. Tomatoes are scarcely in
season yet; they are said to promise
unusually well. They cost twenty cents
for small strawberry basket full now.
CucumbcrG are five to ten cents. Beets
are ten cents bunch. Onions are two
for five to three for ten, according to.
where you buy rather than to size or
quality, Radishos arc three for ten.
Beans bring fifteen cents quarter peck,
andpeas thirty cents half peck. Canli-
flowers are fifteen TO twenty cents.
Eggs, 20; butter l24 to 10; lemons, so
a dozen; oranges, 40 to so; bananas, 80
cents.
PINE snow OF MEATS.
1t is worth the trouble OF visit to
the market some morning TO see the
fine display OF meats. Ayisit to the
Center market Saturday afternoon is
full OF interest, butt is not a good time
to see the meat. Fhe meats in.the up
per market early in the morning, be-
fore the gas is turned out, have glis-
tening red that is not seen later in the
day. Although there are not enough
cattle raised in the vicinity to supply
the city market with meat, yet The
prices here have usually ruled lower
than in most other cities-and still the
butchers get rich, 1t was only
lately that they undertook to put
prices up to the average OF
other similarly situated markets, and
the undertaking was not an unqualified
success. Some of the butchers sell yet
at the same old prices, while others en-
force the advance only against transient
patrons, and let regular customers have
meat ut the former rate. Twenty cents
is tho nominal rate for the best cuts OF
beef, but fifteen is high enough for
practical purposes. Taken altogether q
dollar viii go as5far toward loading
down market basket in Wheeling as
in any other city, and it takes stout
man to carry dollars worth of grub
from the market to an outlying ward
without perspiring and cussing.