The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-20

The Scranton markets offer this week
an unending variety of good things for
the Christmas dinner, with prices on
all food articles averaging about the
same as they have for several years
past.
Turkey, the piece de resistance or
every Christmas dinner, is selling AT
II and 16 cents a pound, the latter
price being for the choicer kinds. Real
spring chickens are selling at 121a and
IA cents a pound. Game Of all kinds,
except venison, is very plentiful.
Ducks are selling at l6 cents n pound
while grouse are retailing at 81 a pair.
Pheasants, and they're coming in by
the hundreds, are going for Sl.5O a
pair, while quail, those small but
toothsome little birds, may be had for
So a dozen. English phcasants, u very
rare fowl, are bringing 81 to SO pair,
according to the size. Nenison by the
half or quarter is scarce at 25 cents
pound, while in smaller quantities 80
cents must be paid.
Almost every vegetable that can be
bought in the warmer weather except
green corn is now on sale. New po-
bushel Large red tomatoes cost 25
and 30 cents pound. Radishes are
cents a bunch and cucumbers, a great
rarity at this time of the year, even
in these days Of hot house vegetation,
are selling at 10 cents apiece. Lettuce
is 5 to IS cents a head and green AMI
wax beans are selling for 20 cents
quart, the same price which must be
paid for fresh green peas. That old
standby, cabbage, is high, at 10 cents
a head.
CELERY IS HIGH.
Celery is rather high. at 10 and Is
cents bunch, and Bermuda onions
are obtainable at IS cents a quart.
Cranberries are as usual, 10 to Il cents
a quart Young tender mushrooms,
the delight of an cpicure's heart, arc
cheap at 10 cents pound, rs they gen.
orally bring at this time of the year
about 81 a pound.
All of the mushrooms for Scranton
consumption are grown in an aban-
doned vein Of the Greenwood mine by
an old man named Williams. These
peculiar vegetables thrive in dark,
| damp places, and the old slbterran-
are almost entirely devoted to their
| cultivation.
Oranges range from the smaller vari-
cites at twenty-five cents a dozen to
! the delicious navels at sixty cents a
| dozen. Concord, Malaga and Crawford
| grapes may be had in any quantity at
twenty cents for a five-pound basket,
which is particularly cheap at this sea
son. The ChOicer varieties of apples are
! bringing $3.50 box, while cheaper ones
are obtainable at 81 a barrel.
Figs range in price this year from
fifteen to thirty cents pound, the lat
ter being the choicest Turkish variety,
All varieties of nuts are a little high
priced this year. mixed nuts selling az
fifteen cents pound, instead Of twelve
and one-half cents, as usual English
! Walnuts are the dearest of all al
eighteen cents a pound. while paper
shell walnuts bring twenty cents a
pound.
PRICE OF RAISINS.
Raisins range in price from twelve
and one-half cents to thirty cents a
pound, while maple sugar is selling al
htteen cents a pound. The choicest
kind Of mince meat sells for seventy.
five cents for a five-pound jar, but
cheaper kinds are obtainable. Pump-
kins, large, round and reminiscent OF
steaming hot pies. are ten to twenty
five cents apiece, according to size. and
cheap for this time of the year.
And then the greenery, the wreaths
and strings, with which to decorate the
nome The wreaths are various priced
from ten to twenty-five cents accord
ing to size, and the rOping sells for 81,
and eight cents yard. Just a little O.
the real, genuine mistletoe. withou
which Christmas wouldn't be Christ
mas in the lands across the sea, is or
sale, but it is expensive, costing TWEEN
ty-five cents for a small sprig.