PRICES NOW AND THEN, Ac. 



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SECOND FLOOR. 



The little front room in second story would make a 

 bed-room if required, or a dressing room attached to 

 the large front bed-room. 

 First story 9 ft. 6 in. high, second story 8 ft high. 



The superstructure is framed, sheathed on the out- 

 side with li in. boards about 9 in. wide, put on hori- 

 zontally, and rebated to imitate block work, and 

 painted three good coats, the last two to be sandedj 

 thus making the building appear like a stone one, 

 with very little e.xpense. To be plastered on the in- 

 side two coats (browning and white finish). The 

 inside finish is to be plain and neat Architraves in 

 principal story to be 7 in. wide, bevelled bands thosa 

 in the second story, 6 in. The building finished com- 

 plete, will cost about $2,000. — Horticulturist. 



Prices Now and Tuen. — The Albany Knicker- 

 bocker says: " A citizen who has ever kept an ac- 

 count of every thing purchased for his family, gives 

 the following list of articles and their prices in 1829, 

 to which he added the price of similar articles at the 

 present time: 



Total - - $5 11 $14 97 



These figures show an advance of about two hun- 

 dred per cent in household expenditures during the 

 last twenty-five years. During the same period, the 

 wages of mechanics and laborers have only advanc- 

 ed about twenty-five per cent The more money 

 that comes in the country, the worse it appears to 

 make it for a man of toil — especially those who toil 

 in the towns and cities. The high prices of food and 

 the low prices of labor must give our people a taste 

 for farming. If we are not much mistaken, our land 

 offices will sell more farms during the next five years 

 than they have for the past twenty. 



Farms and Farmers. — Farms occupy two thirds 

 of the land of England. The number of farms is 

 225,318; the average size 111 acres. Two thirds of 

 the farms are under that size, but there are 771 of 

 above 1,000 acres. The large holdings abound in 

 the south eastern and eastern counties ; the small 

 farms in the north. There are two thousand English 

 farmers holding nearly 2,000,000 acres ; and there 

 are 97,000 English farmers not holding more. There 

 are 40,650 farmers who employ five laborers each; 

 16,501 have ten or more, and employ together 311,- 

 307 laborers ; 170 farmers have above 60 laborers 

 each, and together employ 17,000. — Census Report, 

 England. 



A new iron ore bed has been discovered about five 

 miles from the Lake, near Westport Esses county. 

 New York. It is si.xty feet deep, sixty rods wide, 

 extends into the earth an unknown distance, and 

 yields seventy or eighty per cent 



There is in existence a piece of Egyptian darningi 

 unfinished, and with the wooden needle stuck in it, 

 begun before Abraham was born, it is thought 



