Labor In Europe

The recent repons of the United States Consuls at Breslau and Brunswick, Gvrmany, givesomv interesting figure ot wages paiü to laborers in that country. Tlie former reporta that apricultunil l'aboi crs working an average of 12 hou re per day, receives froni $19 to $33 80 per year, besides a certaln amount of farm produce- iibout thirty buaheis of rice, peas, and ba.-ley. The laborei's wife is bound to work In the Held whenever required, and receives for a day's work in the summer the ¦nuiiiücentsuuiof from 12 to 14 cents and In winter of from 10 Ui 12 cents. Miuers and mine laborers reqeive 52J cents daily, and woinen vvho inay do thi kind of work from 1SJÍ to 25 cents. The Brunswick Consul, writinjf of agricultural labor In that Duchy, says; "In the level country Ihe wafjes of tlie man and wile aggregate $194.20 per annum, while in the mountainous di.-tricts a man and liis wifc atStflteu by a child, earn bilt f 1S4. In the district of Wolfenbuttel the laborer receives a cash wages entirely ot 55 cents per day, ëummer aad winter, workini; time 5 to 11 a. m., and 1 to 6 p. m. Women are paid 19 cents for the same time. A man willearn from ö9J to 71 cents per diem, and a woman from 29 to 35 cente for gathering behind the scythe. Men and women both earn from 35 to 47 cents per day hoeing, and from 47 to 59 cents gathèrinj; beets. It is uot to be wondered at that people over there are restive, es.pecially such of them as have debtsoutstandingand interest to pay out of the preducts of labor.