Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-25

feelings were engendered in communities where harmony had prevailed; the cost of enforcing this optional law was not fairly laid on the municipalities that declared for it, and in many other ways it was found ut terly bad.
 The plan for postal tube between Dover and Calais is making progress. The neces- sity of frequently getting into the tubes, of which there will be two, one to go and one to return, ,has caused the idea of immersion to be abandoned, and it has been decided to ele- vate the means of communication 40 metres above the level of the sea. The diameter of the tube is to be 111S in., it's lower part will have floor so that the inside will resemble 8 tunnel. Under this floor telegraphic and telephonie wires will be laid in considerable numbers, so that these modes of communi- cation will be established between England and the continent under the best conditions as to rapidity and moderate rates. Rails will be laid on the floor to admit of the move ment of light trains of only few carriages. The motive power will be air, rariied by means of two powerful pumps erected at each extremity. The tube will be borne on columns placed 800 metres from one another, so as not to interfere with the navigation. In order to protect the tubes from oscillation by She wind they will be fixed by shrouds of steel cables passing between the pillars, thus preserving the equilibrium.
 A British consular report states that fe- male labor is the secret of the great success which the Germans have attained in the resdy-made clothing trade. In Berlin cloak makers earn from ss. to 9s. week, begin ners and less sk1llful hands averaging from As. to 5s. The makers of underclothing earn 5s to 15s 8 week. Without going through what the consul has to say about Breslau, Erfurt, and other places, it will be sufficient to say that in representative places like Plaaen and Chemnitz the average is on- ly from 5s. to los. week. Those who earn these low wages are, of course, compelled to live partially on their friends. Those who get from 10 to 15 marks week may live in- dependently, perhaps. When they do, they appropriate their time thus: Sleeping accom- mediation and coffee for breakfast, 20pf. {; bread and butter for lunch, 15pf.; dinner, generally eaten in a restaurant or "people's kitchen," 20pf.; bread and butter in the af- ternoon, 15pf:; supper, 20pf., two bottles of beer 20pf., a total of 1.20 marks for the day, less than 15d. day, or trife under 8s. Cd. aweek. In this estimate there is no pro vision made for the washing, repair and re- placement of clothes. From Posen it is re- ported that potatoes form the principal feod of the workers. In Breslau large number eat DO dinner, but have some warm food for their suppers. In the summer they live during the week on bread and herrings and sausages, and only have decent meal on Sundays. A still more striking case is re- ported from the .Dusssldorf- -Elberfeld dis trict, where g married woman with two children earned 419 marks (s20 19s.) in six teen months. Materials and repairs to the machine cost in the same period 27 marks, leaving a net income of 39s marks. The rent of her two rooms came to 293 marks.