The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-14

thousands to take care of require ex-
perience, judgements decision, and
good temper, incapable PERSONS, who
possess not one of these absolutely
necessary qualifications, are en-
ployed at from SI.6o to $a.5o day.
Now, with rents and provisions,
clothes and everything else going up,
such wages are attractive only to
chronic failures, and it is notorious
that the al" roads are the last refuge
of the incompetent.
Z Yest Rice g Viz, as the Ffench
say, and skilled and unskiiled labor
are on the rampage with the Oliver
Twist demand for "more. Capital
is gettingugly, and there are synip-
toms of ageneral buttoning up of
wealth which may change our hallelu-
jahs for prosperity to walls of woe
for wasted time, ill-feeling and all
kinds of n unpleasantness. There's
plenty of money being made, but
quite large number of people are
getting left in the operation, and
they feel mad. Strikes are springing
up on every hand like early peas, and
there is no peace with them.
One Of the meanest was a rumpus
kicked up in the World Office at 9 p.
M. on Tuesday, about whether 4oc.
or 45c. per M. was the proper pay for
compositors. The paper came out
in queer shape on ENTHUSIASTICALLY
three men having remained at their
cases-with lot of standing matter
intended for the Sunday miscellany,
editorials Of the day before repeated,
paragraphs cut short in the middle,
&c. The proprietors say the trap
was unfairly sprung on them. The
printers say they were harshly used
and sprung no trap, and had no in
tention to strike. AS matter Of fact,
l happen to know, of my own per-
sonal knowledge, that one of the
printers went to work in another
Office, a rat job office at that, early
on Tuesday morning. He would
scarcely have thrown up steady
job unless he knew something were
in the wind.
Easter cards, eggs, &C., are having
an immense sale. Some Of them are
very expensive and are veritable
works of art, the compositions from
which the chromos are made being
often the work of men and women of
worldwide renown. One huge card
by Moran is simply exquisite in its
poetic beauty and suggestiveness.
The glow of a heavenly sunrise, over
heavenly city of promise, is almost
worthy of Turner in execution, and
superior to anything Turner ever did
in imaginative feeling.
Oscar Wilde has been utilized TO
make money for numbers of ingenious
people. There are fans in the shape
of innocent-looking cigars, which ex-
pand in the shape of sunfowers.
There are sunfower pen-wipers (pat-
ented forsooth), and sunAower pin.
cushions. The latest thing I've seen
was an Oscar Wilde concert, gotten
up by lot of small children with
great trouble and great expense for
their small pockets, in order to swell
the amount of their Easter Offerings.
An ancient victim, who can draw a
little, was called on to paint a gor-
geous dropscene with sunfowers and
lilies. In the middle Of the sunAowers
were holes. Through those holes
appeared before succession Of de-
lighted audiences at a Children's
Fair, by way of side show, sundry
little noses. A solemn presentment
of the original Oscar, in full aesthetic
rig, pointed to card inscribed "An
aria by Mendelssohn," or words to
that effect and beat time to a charm
ing rendering of one of Mother
Goose's Melodies, which had been
much practiced, to an excellent &C
compartment. Then down came the
card, and another was shown, with
another song, and so on. The utter
was quite intensely too too, and the
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