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so as to find out how to economize and 
where all the money goes. Procuring a 
small book, she makes a due entry, and on 
the Monday after the first Saturday in 
which her husband brings home his pay, 
she carefully tears the margin off a news¬ 
paper and with a blunt pencil, strikes a tri¬ 
al balance something in this way: 
John brought me home 48 dollars and 40 
cents, and one dollar and 43 cents I had is 
49 dollars and 93 cents, and one dollar and 
nine cents I lent Mrs. Dixon is 50 dollars 
and 93 cents—but, hold on, 1 ought not to 
enter that, because when she returns it it’ll 
go down. That was $49 and 93 cents, and 
what have I done with that? 
Then she puts down the figures, leaving 
out the items to save time—a process which 
enables her to leave out most of the items 
to where a round sum is involved, on the 
supposition that they have already been put 
down. As thus: 
Six dollars and 14 cents for meat; and ten 
cents for celery; and ten cents on the street 
cars; and a bad five-cent piece I got in ex¬ 
change; and 81 cents I paid the milk-man, 
who owes me 19 cents—that’s three dollars: 
and fifteen cents at church; and the grocer¬ 
ies—they were either 15 dollars and 60 cvnts. 
or $16 and 50 cents, and I don’t remember 
which they were, but I guess it must have 
been 15 dollars and 60 cents, for the grocer 
said if I’d give him a dime he could give 
me half a dollar, which would make even 
change, and I couldn’t, because the small¬ 
est I had was a quarter; and two dollars 
and 72 cents for mending Katie’s shoes, 
which is the last money that shoemaker 
ever gets from me; and ten cents for cel¬ 
ery—no, I put that down. 
Finally she sums up her trial balance 
sheet and finds that it foots up 64 dollars 
and 28 cents, which is about 15 dollars 
more than, she had originally. She goes 
over the list several times and checks it 
carefully, but all the items are correct, and 
she is just about in despair when her good 
angel hints that there may be a possible 
mistake in the addition. Acting upon the 
suggestion, she foots up the column and 
finds that the total is 44 dollars and 28 
cents, and that according to the principles 
of arithmetic she ought to have five dollars 
and 65 cents. Then she counts her cash 
several times, the result varying from one 
dollar and 40 cents up to one dollar and 97 
cents, but then she happily discovers that 
She has been mistaking a two-dollar-and-a- 
half gold piece for a cent, and remembers 
that she gave the baby a trade dollar to < nt 
its gums with. On the whole, she has 
coine within 86 een s of a balance, and that 
she says, is close enough, and she enters in 
one line of the account book; ‘‘Dr. — By 
household expenses,"’ so much, and is very 
happy till she remembers, just after going 
to bed, that she has omitted two dollars and 
72 cents for her husband’s hat.— KvcJunige. 
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Marketing Fruit. 
Commission merchants and dealers in 
fruits in our city market see the advantage, 
which many farmers and fruit growers 
cannot be made to realize, of sending only 
the best and most perfect fruit to market. 
In passing through the market recently a 
dealer remarked,—-“we ohen wish that we 
could have the company of these who send 
fruit to market. Here are several barrels 
of apples waiting for the cart to take them 
to the dump—Why? Merely because the 
sender sent too much His ‘Early Har¬ 
vest,' ‘Primate,’ or ‘Alexander’ trees bore 
well; he shook off the fruit, gathered 
it up. good and bad, bruised and sound in¬ 
to barrels and sent it to market. It had no 
sale; d cay set in and the commission man 
can only get rid of it at the dump, and has 
a bill against the sender for expenses. 
Had one-third of this fruit been kept at 
home and fed to the pigs or ground to make 
cider for vinegar, the better two-thirds 
would have bad a ready sate. Many, no 
doubt, think that we harp needlessly every 
year upon this matter of assorting fruit. 
The caution is not needless and we shall 
continue to repeat it until we see a better 
state of things in the market. A peck of 
poor fruit will spoil the sale of a barrel. 
The price is not fixed by the many good 
specimens, but tlie few poor ones bring the 
whole lot down to their level. Every one 
who sends fruit or other produce to the 
New’ York or any other market, should 
know’ that it is sold by its appearance;’’ 
