He learned from this dingy document that the prices of telling fortunes by lines of the hand, by cards, and by the stars, varied in amount from one to five dollars.
Whether she makes any discount from her ordinary prices to these regular traders, she did not state, but probably witchcraft is governed by the same rule as other commodities, and comes cheaper to wholesale dealers.
We, together with other importers, drew upon the parent stock in Scotland to such an extent about this time that the straining point was soon reached and prices rapidly advanced in that country also.
The prices of fat cattle were very tempting, something unheard of ever before, but when it came to buying feeders, the margin was very little greater than it had been in previous years, and besides, corn was higher than it had ever been.
Cincinnati and Buffalo received a few of these cattle, but most of them were driven on through to the markets on the sea board, where better prices were obtained.
Such was the demand for animals of this breed in the early eighties that we found ready sale for them at prices almost beyond the reach of cattlemen of moderate means.
Because of the waste and expense and the low prices realized, the cost of the main products--the food for human beings--was very greatly increased.
Under these circumstances, it is really not surprising ifprices form a general subject of conversation.
The prices affixed to the articles were absurdly exorbitant; a needle cost a real, a worthless knife or a pound of iron a dollar, an ell of printed calico two or three dollars.
Some of the simpler rules of political economy are tolerably well known among the operative classes, and of these none is better understood than the relationship betwixt the prices of labour and of food.
All the necessaries of life have to be brought from a great distance; and this, combined with the greediness of the vendors, and the abundance of money, causes enormous prices to be demanded and obtained.
And if I didn't hurry others would get the idea and runprices up.
They show him the pictures and quote prices on the hoof--which are low, but look what even a runt of a yearling whale that was calved late in the fall would weigh on the scales!
Until this is the case the prices of the international market determine the standard of wages.
You detect the bachelor girl in the current which sets in toward the home quarters of the undomesticated, the little Bohemias, the foreign eating-places whose fixed table d'hote prices flash out in illumined signs from the side streets.
When people speak of the want of real comradeship among women, I sometimes wonder if one of the reasons may not be that the prices which women are accustomed to pay are individualistic instead of fraternal.
Drinkwater, in his "History of the Siege," gives a list of prices actually paid.
How he does it is a mystery, more especially as his prices in no way exceed, and in the majority of instances are below, the prices of other European and American houses, while the number of his bad debts is considerable.
Among poultry, fowls and turkeys, again, are numerous, and generally of excellent quality, large and plump birds being obtainable for very moderate prices at all times.
It must be remembered that in all of these countries the difference between the wholesale and the retail prices is enormous, and that the dealers' profits are exceedingly high.
Still worse, however, they act as a deterrent to active trade and commerce, since all goods sold must be marked-up at higher prices than are customary, with the very natural result of a smaller consumption.
Drafts are in this way arbitrarily held back and kept out of the market, or prices are asked for them which are out of all proportion to the silver quotations of London and New York.
All these prices were, at the least, doubled before the first week in November, when the locality was finally cut off from contact with the rest of the civilized world.
In early October flour could still be purchased for seven to eight dollars per sack, and meat for a dollar a pound, but these prices were run up very materially in the period of the next two weeks.
There is also no doubt that even at low prices there is plenty of scope for better farming, and that better manuring, particularly of grass land, will pay.
Under it the gas companies were allowed to increase their dividends in proportion as they lowered their prices to the community.
In those circumstances, a reduction of the general level of prices and wages is an essential condition of a trade revival.
Please understand that I am not attempting to sum up all the many reasons for and against this proposal, but only to deal with the particular virtue claimed for it, bearing upon the increasing burden of the debt as prices decline.
You must prevent prices rising so much, and so many constructional goods being made during the period of active trade; and I am not going to pretend that that is an easy thing to do.
Their original policy was to offer to the farmer guaranteed prices for his produce, if necessary at the expense of the tax-payer, and to the labourer guaranteed wages, to be fixed and enforced by Wages Boards.
It is true, when the teacher craftily told him stories of the pricesthat some lucky artists received for their work, he felt as though she were pointing down into a gold mine.
She concluded nothing about staple trading till her husband should return; for prices were to be fixed on the corn and bacon which must be paid in exchange.
On account of lack of competition, prices were extreme even for France in war-time.
Amiens was an unsatisfactory place to shop, but my baggage had not been found and winter was coming on fast, so I had to replace some of my possessions at once at any prices that might be demanded.
Taxes that affect no prices are the best of all; taxes that affect prices the least are the next best; and taxes that are designed to affect prices are the very worst.
All increase in the quantity of money beyond that point would have, and could have, the only effect of increasing the nominal Prices of Services, without making the services themselves any greater in number or better in quality.
The monetary par, accordingly, as between any two nations using the gold standard, is a matter easily ascertained and kept in mind; while the constantly variable prices current of Bills of Exchange are reckoned in and from this monetary par.
The middle of 1777, when Burgoyne was prosperously advancing from Canada towards New York, saw a general fall of the notes both Continental and Colonial, and of course and in consequence a universal rise of the prices of other products.
But this is not all by any means; the discount is variable from day to day and from month to month; in changing his gold prices present into silver prices future, the Mexican importers must insure themselves.
As the inclined plane of rising prices is slowly ascended before a Crisis, so the fall of general prices afterwards seems to be rather gradual also till the lowest point of them is reached, from which another ascent is apt to commence.
Did this astute objector ever hear of "domestic combination" to keepprices up to the highest possible point?
One thing they have done is to raise prices for everything to everybody.
Frequently he would stand at his door and cry out his prices to passers-by.
Unsuspectingly the crooks offer him all sorts of dirty work at smallprices for assistance in criminal acts.
When you hear stocks have gone up and men who bought them cheap have sold them at high prices and gained fortunes suspect your informant.
People residing here seldom patronize them on account of the high prices usually charged.
The prices I have made you are, I think, exceptionally low, and I trust they will induce you to give me a trial.
All items withprices attached I have in stock and can supply without delay.
It would have readers where the meat and poultry prices would seem very high, and the groceries equally low.
To those who questioned the cost of articles I would say: they forgot, reading in December, when they were doubtless paying higher prices, that the prices quoted were for September.
I therefore decided to take average New York retail pricesand not to go below them.
There may be cities and suburbs where the prices are higher than in New York, but in my experience these are few compared with the many where they are lower.
I allude to the prices of provisions and the amount of cooking accomplished in a given time.
List of Prices of the above, together with the Catalogue of Bedsteads, sent Free by Post.
For the high prices paid in the first quarter of the nineteenth century for the right to hold negroes to the age of 28, see below, p.
The prices paid in the colony naturally fluctuated from time to time in accordance with supply and demand, and varied within certain limits according to the age and personal qualities of each negro.
I would feel inclined, however, as far as it may be in my power, to give your establishment the advantage of our recommendation, and would therefore like to get from you a written list of fixed prices of all the various sorts.
If industry is a source of fictitious wants, it affords, on the other hand, cheap prices to the poor for the most necessary wants of life; for example, cheap materials for clothing.
The women are renowned for being good housekeepers and their rooms are charmingly fitted up, but the prices are very high, as they live the whole year on what they make in summer.
The windows on Unter den Linden are already selling at enormous prices for the occasion.
The upward trend of prices may have called for some change; but it was too drastic.
The Company claimed one-tenth of the produce of all sales and had the right of pre-emption and of fixing the prices of goods.
In Oxfordshire there was no old wheat left, and the insatiable demands from the large towns of the north sent upprices alarmingly.
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
The hotels are excellent, and theprices not at all exorbitant.
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