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f> I">959486 MISCELLANEOUSIii all families, meat seems to be a luxury and only tobe had once or twice a month.Clothes cost all the way from 2,500 cashor $1.00 gold per year to 17,500 cash or$7.00 gold per year. In case of the first low cost no newgarments are purchased; in the start a good second-handgarment is purchased and as it needs repairs, old material ispurchased to make it useful. In case of the larger sum adurable garment is purchased and worn until good usagesays discard; it is then sold as a second-hand garment andthe money applied on a new garment. Thus the moneyspent represents the difference in cost between a newgarment and the price realized on the old one. The oldgarments of the better class are purchased by those with alittle less money, who discard them as second-hand and theyare passed down until they get to the beggars. It is hardto say how old some of the beggarsrags may be.In the cost of clothes for the coolie who served theforeigner, sandals represented 14%, cloth shoes 12%, andgarments 74%, of the total cost of his clothes.Course of ExchangeExchange Watching the rising price of the cost ofBetween articles purchased on the street and theDollars andcomplaint of some that the prices were somuch greater than when they first came out,it occurred to us that if we could get the silver price of thesearticles of years ago, we would have a fairer comparison.To this end the following table is given. These figures weretaken from the books of one of the cash shops of this city.In the original set of figures we have the daily exchange,but for the sake of brevity only the yearly average is hererecorded.Exchange betweenJH07 J!>OS J!>0!>silcer dollars and copper casli.UO JV11 J!>J.S lit!. .191484<iAyiM-ajrc854 111.")987 11(>I 1251 ]283J lijrlicst 872 874 J)oSS 978 1014 1230 1280 1398Lowest 828 834 8(54i 942 9(;0 1008 1224 1230