The Archive · 1879

Per str. Kiangfoo, for Nanking—Mr

Uanciarez, For Chivkiang—Rev. Father

Gutick.

Per atr. Haean, for Foochow—Mr. W. As Gay.

Ber ntr, Tokio Maru, for Nagavaki—Mr. A. B. Severiv. For Yokohama—Rev, Gulich, Messrs, J. J, Marion, W. R. Sonver, A. O, Woods, H. A. Waren and F. E, Walker, expensive, is now that 1t costs leas to buy a oew copy of a book or pamphlet than to buy the old, The aged can remember when the Waverley Novel cost 31s. id waa hired out to rend at Is. per volume for twelve hours. Ie in now retailed, with all at 31, Lot "the girl of the period" sak her grand: mother what, sixty yeara ago, straw hate "came to." At a Queen's assembly, the best-dressed lady appeared in a cotton'print that lop-picker now would scorn to wear on Sunday. Leather taxed, and we have the benefit of t Soap was taxed glass, Wine is little more than price. In fact, with th mutton, butter, and of living is, eatens paribus—that ence to the same necessary commodity ry auch loss in the year 1879 than it was in 1801.—House and Home.

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