Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1886 — A Tight Market. [ARTICLE]

A Tight Market.

The cheapest of all < ivilized or halfcivilized countries of the present world is probably the Persian part of Armenia. The traveler Vamberg states that in the mountain districts of that frugal territory half a florin (about 25 cents) would be considered fair monthly wages for a hard-working man, and that the miethgeld, or hand-money, paid to the parents of a shepherd boy varies from flO to 75 cents a year. Yet, even at these modest rates, few applicants can obtain employment, and the highways swarm with begging youngsters, ready to follow a bread-giver to the end of tne world.