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Show ' Queer Foods. New Yonc, Aug. U. Every week sees a lot of queer foods brought througli the custom house from abroad for the beuefit of foreign boru citizens who retain a hankering hank-ering for the delicacies of their native land. Aui'iJin those the past fortnight were dried rla.tifttnd oysters from the far east, looking look-ing moralite pieces of carved wood than anything edible; pickled cocks' combs from France (these in, glass jars made a very pretty effect, the scarlet of the meat affording a strong contrast to the green and brown of the spices used); dried white bait from Formosa, which are the smallest fishes in the world used for food (the largest larg-est are as long as a pin, while the smallest are scarcely a quarter inch in length); chicken sausages and goose liver sausages from Germany, put up in cans and looking like anything but a delicious luxury; tons of sweet stuff from Central America, which resembles apple butter in appearance, appear-ance, but is made from pineapple, banana, orange and cocoanut; sugar almond cakes from Austria, called matzepou, which are as close an approach to sweeteaed prussic acid as the law will allow, and moon cakes from China, which are poor imitations imi-tations of old fashioned pork pies. These come in ever-increasing numbers now in order to meet the demand for the annual feast .of the harvest moon, which occurs In September. - . , , w. i |