The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-01-27
THE WORLDS WAGES.


week.
A weaver in Germany receives 60
cents day.
A native painter in India earns 40
cents day.
Farm laborers in Belgium receive 46
cents day.
A -,rorocco earns 10
GEMS uay.
A thrasher in Turkey can command
40 cents day.
A Mexican mason earns from IS
cents to 81 day.
Music teachers in Hamburg are paid
FL cents an hour.
A boss mason in Ceylon can earn
So 90 per week.
A policeman in Saxony receives Sa61
year as salary.
A railroad conductor in Turkey gets
s27 a month.
An engraver in Rio de Janeiro can
make SI2 per week.
A blacksmith in Jerusalem can max e
SI.92 per week.
The King of Bavaria has salary of
SI,4I2, 1000 year.
A printer in Peru can make from
$1.25 to S1.So day.
Shop girls in France earn an average
of SIoo year.
In Mexico seamstresses are paic 81
cents day, weavers so cents.
Bookkeepers in Germany receive
from 5000 to $500 year.
A cook in Ceylon is paid $3.50
month nurse the same coachman
S.; a gardener s..
The Emperor of Austria manages to
make both ends meet with an annual
allowance of S4,S75, 900.
A Swiss silk ribbon weaver regards
himself as fortunate if he averages As
cents day the year round.
In the textile trades and mines oi
Austria week of 72 to 90 hours is
not uncommon.
The King of Italy receives
S2,S5S,ooo as salary and SISo,ooo for
his family, he being married man.
In a German sewing machine factory
a male employe earns STA to S214 a
year a woman, S47.6o to SIG.
The pay of boy servant in England
in the 18th century was 6 shillings a
year in 1880 it was 60.
An agricultural laborer IN India /:
supposed to receive S cents day, but
general his wages are not so large.
1t is estimated that the number oi
working people, male and female, IL
the German Empire is Io,5oo,ooo.
In the Krupp Gun Works at Esser
there are 10000 men employed, anc
the average daily wages paid are 81
cents.
The Turkish laboring day is from
sunrise to an hour before sunset, with
an hour for PRAYERS and dinner.
English contractors for army cloth
ing pay IA pence for making trousers
and 80 pence dozen for army caps
In the Russian glass works the lab
orers earn from $50 to $50 per year,
with food and lodging IN the works.
The average annual earnings of lab
orers in Denmark is SISS to S2I4; o
general mechanics, S24o to s26S.
| Persian laborers work from sunrise
to sunset, with an hours intermissior
at noon. No work is done on Friday
Housemaids in England receive an
average of three shillings a week a:
wages, together with their food ant
lodgings.
The wages of female servants ii
Prussia range from s14.2S to s71.4(
per year of males, s23.So to s95.2o
The lowest wages in Europe arr
paid in Italy. A baker makes So pc
week, tailor S. SO, painter S..
His Majesty of Portugal, in consid
alton OF the small size of his kingdom
contents himself with S542,44o yeal
The food of German miners consist
of bread and vegetables. 1t is yer
| seldom that they can afford a bit c
meat.
Bank clerks in Germany receive fror
, SI42 to SI,Ioo salary. For the fir:
| three or four years they serve withou
pay.
, Clerk in wholesale and retail store
: in Dusseldorf receive from So to SI4
, month women clerks from 81 to SIc