Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-03-11
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TUESDAY, : : : . hAnOh IL iosS
TIE London Saturday Reriesc, which
can be as mordant a. caustic pot
ash in discussing Americanisms, says
that the now popular pedestrian tests Of
endurance have been imported into Eng
land from this country, and suggests that
inasmuch rs they began to become popular
In the United States at about the time Of
the enfranchisement Of the negro, one fact
may explain the other; the negro being no
longer available for the qualification Of our
inhumanity and cruelty, we have developed
the the new form OF pedestrianism to sup
ply ms with q sort Of public Niger"
whose bodily sufferings and anguish we
may get the same pleasure from hal we
used to get from the writings Of the Afri.
can under the lash. Unfortunately for this
theory, the invention OF the barbarous
cruelty Of pcdestrianism is due to the same
section which, for its own purposes, con-
cocted the lying fables about the African
and the lash but there isl real cruelty in
pedestrianism for money, and exhibitions
which often surpasses the barbarism Of
bull fights and cooking mains. This is es-
pecially the case when women are put on
exhibition. The test is not one of athletic
skill or muscle; it is, as q contemporary
says, a revival in new form Of the medie-
val torture Of preventing a person from
getting his sleep for a long time. The anti
cruelty societies should look into the mat
ter.
No more thorough investigation Of the
condition and mode Of living Of the labor
ing classes is made in any part Of the world
thar is made by the Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics, maintained at considerable expense
by the State of Massachusetts,. In the last
report appears . table Of weekly wages in
1860, and each year since then, for Al diff
ferent occupations. The average weekly
wages of all classes were 24.4 per cent.
higher last year than in 1860, and there is
not . single occupation that is not better
paid now than then; but the purchasing
power Of wages has decreased because the
cost Of living is higher. And yet, taking
everything into consideration, it is found
that the increase is in those items upon
which the cost Of labor has been the great
est, but even then it is only 14.5 per cent.
higher than in 1860. To put it in the
~clearest manner: For every $500 earned
and spent in 1860, leaving no surplus at
the end Of the year, the laborer now would
get $497 60, and would have to spend only
$452 so; that is to say, he could live just
~ well As in 1860 and have $45 10 left at
the end Of the year, or a little more thar
II per cent. Of his earnings; and this
steady advance in the condition o: the
laboring man has been going on while
labor abroad has been getting less and less.
An Exchange, for the sale OF mining
stocks, has just been organized at Chicago,
with its Office at No. 90 La Sale street.
This desirable result has been accomplished
chiefly through the exertions OF Mr.. H. r.
Mitchell, n Of Chicago's most prominent
brokers. This Exchange is organized and
conducted on the same general plan, and
the anne commissions charged as that Of
other hrst-class Boards. and is in direct
communication with the San
Francisco and New York Exchanges. CIV
ing their quotations Of stocks as bought
and sold.