Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1885 — High Living in the United States. [ARTICLE]

High Living in the United States.

We venture that in no country in the world do the people average so high in the cost of living. It proves that our average population lives well. And this is an important fact. Good living promotes health, and is a sign of intelligence. Were our people so povertystricken as to be compelled to live poorly, the effect on the nation would be bad. Whether we advance in the better elements of civilization or retrograde depends on our living.' It is also a test of our earnings. This nation has been steadily liquidating debt since 18ti5. Yet it has lived, including luxuries, not less than ten thousand millions a year, and has put down in business and trading plants at least as much more. Twenty thousand millions a year seems like a large sum. It means an earning capacity of S4OO a year for every man, woman, and child in the country. Suppose that but ten million of these are producers, it rates each active worker as producing $2,000 a year of actual wealth.—Philadelphia Call . A sea-gull measuring four feet six six inches from tip to tip of wings was caught in trap on Wolfe Island, Quebec.