A Boy Clothed For $1.51

Our briftiit contempoarary, tlip EvenüiK .Sun. relates ttat one of its news■boys, a lad of 14 yeairs of age, was baten to a Bowery clotUng store by a gentleman wlio wanted to m-c, liow ctneaply a boy could be clothed, and was fïtted out from baad to foot for $1.51. H?re is a gcbedule of items giren: Sutt 7! cemts. Gap 8 cnts. .Shoes 49.crts. Tie 5 cents. StocktagB 10 cents. Totai $l.r,l Tlie moral wlth whicli this story of tlieap prices is potarted Is that in no otlner country cou,ld a lad be fitted nut for so li'ttle moiney, and the low prJces are one of tlic resujts of competition amons manufacturers oriRina.lly ïcourafccd and alwayg foetered by protectlon iu tte ta.riff laws.- Tlie New York Prese.