The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-16
MARKET VALUE OF
MEN AND WOMEN,

Wives are cheap today. man re-
Gently made a claim against the Lon
don postofiice because through the late
delivery OF letter he had lost his pro
spective bride. lie asked for s25. and
when he was awarded $40 only said that
he did not consider the sum fuIl COM
pensation.
In Canada wives come hlgher--at
least II one can Judge from recent ad-
vertisement I'm a Montreal paper IN
which the advertiser offered 81 $50 down
TO any third person who would lind him
the sort of wife he described. Her chief
qualification was that she should be
domestic. home loving and a good
cook"
This advertiser should have had his
attention called to the offer OF Mr. Jo-
hann Dorm. a Strassburg man, whose
daughter, Dorothea Dorm, scaled PAS
pounds az the age Of 49, The father or
this weighty lady offered a sum equal
10 $3.50 TO any one who would marry his
daughter.
Two years later, Miss Dorothea hav-
ing increased in weight 10 800 pounds.
Mr.. Dorm doubled his offer He then
found a husband in a young man called
Hentzel.
Boys are evidently more valuable In
the eyes OF the law than girls. A York
shire (England) jury recently awarded
| 81, 900 10 a boy who had lost his right
hand In an accident. The very same
| jury on the following day had a case
before them of girl OF the same age
| 14--who had also lost right hand In
similar fashion. To her they gave as
compensation only $3.50.
To most people II would certainly
seem that a one handed boy had
better chance than a girl similarly
MANNED.
London jurles are. apparently, more
generous. An infant named Taylor liv-
ing at Wandsworth recently received
s625 for injuries to his foot caused by
the coster's barrow on which ne was
seated being run down by a milk van.
In another instance the wife OF colonel
in the Connaught rangers received ST.
900 in compensation for hurts received
in railway accident at Norton
bridge a little more than a year ago.
Even the latter compensation fades
into insignifcance compared with the
price paid by the Brazilian government
few months ago for the recent
lynching of a French subject at Rio
Grande. The Brazilians declared that
the tumultuous act of a mob could not
be made a ground OF diplomatic pro-
ceedings." France replied that $200. 900
was the price OF this dead Frenchman
and got IL.
The value OF an emigrant to the coun-
try Of his adoption has been stated by
DR.. Farr as 81, $50 for an ordinary labor
ing man not over 30 and in good health.
In Australia IL has been found that
every ablebodied immigrant increases
1.-the yearly revenue by $40. while I'm Ar
gentina the yearly increase In as much
as $40. Queensland has for many years
proved how well she appreciates this
fact by practically buying immigrants.
They are selected by her agents and sent
out free of cost. She has imported them
at the rate of 1000 year. spending In all
1900 600. She reckons they have cost
her only $500 a head; SO, on the whole.
she has made a very good bargain.
Queensland has also practically pur-
chased large numbers OF Kanakas to
work on her sugar plantations, these
costing her between 500 and $3.50 apiece.
This is about the same price that Brit
ish Guiana pays for coolies imported
| from India. Native laborers of this
kind do not add much to the wealth OF
the colony, as they are paid regular
wages and must be taken back to their
homes at the colony's expense.
Dead men are sometimes more valua-
BILE than live ones. A petrified man dis
covered I'm Patagonia six feet high and
weighing 700 pounds is priced at $4,000
For another dug from the banks OF the
Meuse and exhibited in a French mu-
scum $4,000 was paid. while for Peru
Wan royal mummy supposed TO be 5000
years old the sum of 1,225 was recently
given by an English professor whose
collection of such human curios is ceie-
brated.