Show INTEREST TO OLD COUNTRY FOLKS As you have numerous readers who hall baal from the old country the ec all closed extracts from recent copies of the liverpool mercury may be ot of interest the first relates to the progress made in the speed of steamships hips and is an extract from a letter sent by me to a friend in liverpool tue the second shows to what extent agricultural laborers P wives in england have to plan with small beam and in view of our difficulties here may be instructive yours your respectfully ROBERT ELLIS MOORE fourth street salt L like ike city nov jtb 1893 A correspondent writing from salt lake city says 1 I can well remember my mentioning that in his early days it took look him a week to come from belfast lo ID liverpool and now you are to have a steamer that will dp do the trip iu in a little more thau as many hours as he be took baya lor for the journey receive g we weekly mercury all the year round frum from liverpool bus bbs caused me to anink of then aud and now last year on three occasions I 1 received the paper in eleven days from liverpool thin year once each in the same game period of titue time per 8 a etruria and umbra but so BO far the paper per 9 9 campania has reached me each time in eleven dalp and this week the a a lucania her bar first trip hais baa kept up the record thinking of the past then and now the trip from liverpool to new york is ia shorter to in time than a voyage to belfast was waa in the basra pas and the delivery of letters lettera and news newe papers papera within eleven days here iu in salt lake city a distance of nearly miles from liverpool Liver pro serves to shw the rapid strides that have been made and the remarkable enterprise ot 01 steamship and aad railroad companies making allowance allo RIlO wanee fur for the differ difference euce of time between salt lake city the actual time tiie of arrival arriva lef of papers and ana letters here her in the cases mentioned was 10 days 16 hours or leso lesa time th in n the pioneer steamers ete amers of the cunard company took to accomplish the voyage to now new york A wiltshire laborers laborer bill of fare tue rhe red bed van of the lord restoration league nas been visiting the village and hamlets in wiltshire during toe past few weeks and the lecturers have lent a helping hand to the wilts general and agricultural union speaking at a meeting at kingston deverill Dov crill toe the lecturer mr riley biley said a laoo laborers reVe wife in east wilts had supplied him with details of now she managed to keep the family on HP a week her husband was a cow cowman man receiving that thai sum as wages an and d their family numbered seven five children oh whose ages ranged from three to twelve this is now how she he spent the six gallons of bread at ad per gallon ag 4 ad ha ba f gallon ot or flour for puddings ad alb lb tea I 1 jib bacon ie ae lib butter anti and cheese aa lid ld sugar ad oil 3 j hall hundredweight of coal I 1 ad sods soda id soap ad tobacco ad total loa loj nothing was allowed for clothing or shoes oboes and the woman told him that when they wanted these necessaries i they had to reduce their food supply or go in debt and get out as best beat they could except at whitsuntide they never had bad any bredl fret h meat the position of that family WMS was that of hundreds in the county of wilts and many had not more than a v eek |