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Show iiTapanoso Engraxrors. . '-V'--The Japanese make excellent en- ; A?"$&Yera andhave tl e highest degree v't' .jpjf 'artistic skill and taste. Some of V '"iji ;Siva6 designers are 'eminent artists, v: wl ; vl ': and samples of their work which ':& . were displayed in ' an ixhibition- i" room surpassed anything sean in N- Irance or Germany. But their eii .- highest hig-hest salary paid among the engravers, engra-vers, and artists is equival ent to - only $45 a month in our money, and this command their entire time and talent. The superintendent -J of the institution who ranks next to a member of the cabinet, gets A? ' about the same pay as the messen gers in the government printmg- office at Washington. The lowest Y. v wages paid among the 600 employes, employ-es, is 5 sen. or 2 cents a day; to the young girls who carry the printed print-ed sheets and hang them over the wires. The average is 24 sen or 12 cents a day in our money, and this for eleven hours work from 7 in the morning to 6 at night, with half an hour's rest at noon for luncheon. Ex |