Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-12-31

part of these boards ever touched. For
the former, a certain amount comes
forth from its hid1ng-place to pay the
stipulated marriage dowry OF the
daughter or fortune given the son !;
and then the money only sees the day
light for day, for the new owners in
stantly lay it away, and begin the labor
Of married life to earn money, save it,
and add tito the patrimonial boards.
,Si1th-France is the
MOST sELF-sUPPoRTING NATION
in Europe or the world. Her exports
always exceed her imports largely, and
this balance is e4acted III the precious
metals, and not in raw materials, as in
! Great Britain. Paris is the fashionable
capital OF the world, the Empress of
femaledom; and to her shrine they
come CT send their offerings from all
the nations of the earth. Paris sets
/ the fashions and changes them at pleas
ure, and as often as the changes of the
moon Or the direction of the winds.
All that is costly, useless, fimsy. and
! flaming in the female toilet and ward-
robe, is manufactured la France, and
sold in Paris to the world butterflies
while the fop element of the masculine
persuasion are also provided with their
stunning styles of dress by the French.
and the whole champagne-drinking
fraternity purchase their costly ear
bonic acid and cider in France.
France imports
/ -" NO BREADS FUFFs Oh MEATS,
iitf1o OF 1onr int 1o ,,,1 Nv,
her crops are short, as happens to be
the case this year; but nearly always
she has a surplus OF wheat, beef and
mutton, which is exported across the
channel to England, where it finds a
ready market at high prices. France
imports less sugar or molasses than
she exports, except from her own col
onies. She produces enormous guam
titles of sugar and molasses from the
beet-root- enough for domestic con-
sumption and surplus to export
France imports no silk, except In the
raw state, and produces most of the
raw material within her own borders,
and then manufactures it into thou
sand forms of fabrics and tissues, and
sells 500, 000,0 900 to $500, 900, 900 worth
OF 1t to all the females of the world,
after supplying her own very moderate
and spa1ing consumption. France
manufactures the great bulk of her
own iron, and nearly everything made
therefrom in the form of steel and
iron Implements, railroad tracks, en-
gines, ships, etc. While the coal mea-
sures of France are scant, she manages
to avoid importation from England to
any great extent. The domestic fuel
of France is wood, burned with an
economy that makes one SILVER on
cold day. Trees are
AS CAREFULLY PLANTED AND GROWN
i'll France as beets or wheat, or any
ether product. France grows nearly
all the wool required for domestic con
sumption and export, in the shape of
cloths, except certain coarse varieties
used to mix with the native fine feeces,
and purchased eheaply in Australia
and South America, in exchange for
g1mcracks and toilet articles.
The French produce their own
Hquors-wines and brandy-and export
tens of millions of dollars worth to
other nations. (They drink no whisky
and but little beer; they call the for
mer American poison, and the latter
nasty German soup, and neither of
them fit for the human stomach
The skin of every beast and four
footed animal is converted into leather.
They utilize the hides of all the horses,
asses, mules, cattle, calves, deer, sheep,
lambs, goats, kids, 1851 sa lroa. ~
HOGS, DOGS CATS, RATS, ~
foxes, wolves, rabbits, and other ami
mails, wild or domestic, and sell the
products to all the world in the shape
of French calf and kid boots and shoes,
and morocco wear, and gloves by the
million gross. They make sparing use
of these articles for themselves, but
wear wooden shoes, more generally
than anything else, through the rural
districts and among the poorer classes
Of the cities and towns gaga
The imports of France consist s (,
ALMOST WHOLLY
Of raw materials, purchased to be con-
verified into fabrics, mainly for exporta-
| ton abroad, except tobacco, which is a
government monopoly, and is sold at
an enormous profit, whereby very
large revenue is derived. The chief
artlcle OF import are raw cOGCOn from
! America and cotton-yarn from Eng
land raw and floss silk, wool, timber,
coal, coffee, tea and tobacco.
THE BALANCE OF TRADE
derived from foreign commerce, be-
tween 1850 and 1860, averaged SIC, 0OO,-
900 per annnm. Since then it has av-
eraged 500, 100000. This is exclusive
of the profits made on goods sold at
retail to the multitudes of foreigners,
including Americans, who swarm over
France, and the profits made on COM
MERGE, which the tables Of imports and
exports never state or indicate
The English loan the greater part of
their net profits on foreign trade to the
various nations of the world; that is,
they put their money out on interest
where they can get the best security
and highest rate of usance. The
French loan abroad paratively little
of their surplus capital. The national
tendency is to invest it at home or
hoard it.
think il has now been exnlained