any desired point down to 32° Fah. and the air being sup plied in a dry state is much better adapted to keeping fruits and meats than when charged with vapor from its passage through ice. From this brief description of the Tellies ice machine our readers will be able to comprehend its operation. It is a beautiful application of one of the most important and fun damental laws of physics in a field of industry destined here after to be widely occupied and to exercise an important in fluence on the health comfort and general welfare of man kind. 4m THE WAGES OF LABOR. In the discussion of labor and the wages it obtains in mod ern times it seems to us that money which is only represen tative in character or simply a medium of exchange is too much regarded and that what it obtains is too often made a secondary consideration or not considered at all The true way to regard money is simply as a medium for the trans mission and transfer of the necessaries and luxuries of life ; and the amount of the latter which can be obtained for a day's work is the proper wages of a day's work. commodities. The purchasing power of a dollar has greatly diminished yet upon close scrutiny we shall find that labor ers of to-day can live better with a given amount of labor than they could have done fifty years ago. Their wages have therefore advanced not because the laborer can get to him only seventy-five cents but because the two dollars will purchase to-day more than seventy-five cents would have done fifty years ago. It is not the number of dollars but what the dollars will get that must be considered. Twenty years ago a tun of coal would not have cost in this market on the average over five dollars at the outside; to day it perhaps costs eight. Twenty years ago a common laborer could have got at the outside no more than one dollar per day for his work ; he would therefore have had to work five days for a tun of coal. To-day he gets two dollars a day and can get a tun of coal for four day
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