New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-26
A PEEP AT THE N4RKETS.
In the markets yesterday vegetables were cheap.
but fruit high.
IN THE FISH STALLS

In the markets yesterday vegetables were cheap
but fruit high.
IN THE FISH STALLS
In the fish stalls frogs legs sell for 10 cents
pound: oyster crabs. l2ia cents ounce; prawns
81 % a gallon large scalops. 81 Go a gallon; small
scallops 81 % a gallon: crab meat. 40 pound
cod tongues, % cents: small white perch. 10 cents
whitefsh. IS cents; large white perch. IS cents;
whitebait. - cents. weakfish. L cents; salmon
trout, ID cents sole 1912 cents large bass, % cents
medium bass, 80 cents; pan bass. Is cents; black
bluehsh. 20 cents: market cod. cents; Goldfish
steaks. ~ cents: live goldfish. 10 cents; ees. 10
cents: pickerel 10 cents Western salmon. - cents
and Southern Spanish mackerel. 20 cents each.
FRUIT
In the fruit line California 20 60
a dozen 81 to 81 30 a box: dates two pounds for
% cents; pressed figs. ~ cents pound; cocoa
nuts. 10 to - cents each; lemons 10 cents dozen:
Florida strawberries. 10 to 95 cents box; Havana
pineapples. 40 to 20 cents each Florida oranges
10 10 90 cents dozen; MessIna oranges % cents a
dozen; Baldwin apples. 20 to 20 cents dozen; table
apples 10 cents half peck white grapes. % cents
"A pound: Catawba grapes. % cents basket
Malaga grapes. 80 cents pound winter NelIis
pears 30 10 ~ cents dozen; maple sugar, Il cents
a pound: mandarin oranges. - cents "A dozen
bananas % cents dozen. and grape fruit, 10 to 20
VEGETABLES
In the vegetable market mushrooms sell for ca
TO o. cents a pound; dollhouse asparagus 81 a
bunch French artichokes. 80 cents each: Jerusa-
lem artichokes. Is cents quart; string beans, 10
cents a quart; bccts. 10 cents a bunch; red
white and Savoy cabbages s TO % cents head
carrots three lunches for 10 cents; chives. cents
a bunch: cucumbcrs. 10 10 20 cents each; cauli
flower % TO 80 cents each: cranbcrries. u cents
quart table celery 20 cents TO 81 - bunch; cher
Vii 10 cents a bunch: chicory. cents head
fetticus cents a quart; knob celery. cents a
knob: watcrcrcss, 4 cents bunch; garlic 10 cents
a string; lecks, I cents bunch; oyster plant. 10
cents each red white and yellow onions, 10 TO y
cents a quart: tomatoes. 20 cents pound kale
sprouis IL cents quart. turnips. ~ cents "A half
neck. tarragon II cents Lunch; spinach, - cents
IN THE MEAT MARKET
In the meat market, mutton Kidneys Soil Tor b
cents each: lon lamb chops. % cents pound; coun-
fry sausages IS cents: oxas. 10 cents each; calfs
head 80 cents: calls liver. 10 cents; cafs feet. 10
cents each: sweetbreads 81 per pair; beef Kidneys.
u cents each; Delmonico steak. 80 cents pound;
urimc rib roast, ~ cents. and porterhouse steak.
q cents Philadelphia print butter. % cents IA
pound and good butter. z cents: Long Island eggs.
% c.nts a dozen. In the poultry market, canvas
hack ducks sell for s. a pair redhead ducks. s. 30
a pair Vermont ducks frozen. ~ cents pound:
philadelphia fowl IL cents; State fowl, II cents,
s,i,d fowl 10 cents. mallard ducks. 81 ~ a pair;
large yellow-lcg snipe s. n dozen: English snipc s.
a dozen. GOLDEN ployer, * a dozen, grass IlOver,
e. 20 dozen: tame pigeon 81 y dozen quail. 81 20
cents A pound; State roasting chickens. 10 cents;
rohbs cD cents pair; reedbirds. 81 90 a dozen;
Vermont mutton turkeys. ~ cents pound fhila-
6.Inhta white squads 81 a dozen; Philadelphia dark
IBIS e. n dozen. and wild turkeys, = cents
mound