The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-04
Here, There, Everywhere.

Have our readers any conception of the
way In which the United States presses are
turning out revenue stamps? One Of those
uncomfortable creatures who Is always work.
ing out sums has made a calculation that
the issue of stamps for single day would,
If In one sheet, cover an area of q, $50 square
yards, or nearly six acres II placed end
to end in straight line they would form
strip GIT miles In length. 1t is estimated
that If one person should be employed in at
taching the stamps 1t would require fifty
two years to dispose Of the issues OF single
day, the employee working ten hours each
day and attaching an average of one stamp
every half minute. We do not suppose that
any Buffalo man will set to work attaching
stamps to see if this sum Is right.-B uffalo
Commercial
There is every evidence that the coming fall
is going to be decidedly lively In trade.
The iron and steel trade is the never failing
barometer. There is scarcely a branch offs
this great industry that has not been especial
ly active during the midsummer season Just
ending. 1t is the report that July was the
best month of it's kind for many years and
August has already proved itself to be COR
respondingly active month.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The man who should be promptly rendered
the English mission is ex-President Banjamin
Harrison. He would take with him not only
the highest prestige of American statesman
ship, but he would, by his personal character
and admitted abilities command the highest
respect in the diplomatic circles Of Europe.
Ho Is Just the man who Is needed at this
time, when q new international policy is
enforced upon our Observation-Disclosures
Times.
Which is better, that men should die
rather than that the red tape should be cut
or that bonfire be built Of all hampering
regulations that lives may be savedP There
can be but one answer to this question. If
there is not change, and that at once, there
will be a terrible day Of reckoning for some
one In the near future. This nation will
not stand the disgrace of starving the men
who have fought for it..Brooklyn Eagle
policy of fostering civilization through
friendly channels of trade is alone worthy of
the great, generous republic of the United
States. We have had no part or lot in the
conspiracy to loot China, whereby to monop-
Ollie her trade, and our reward is seen In
our gradually getting the cream Of the trade
Of 400, 000 900 people. Within a few years
our trade with China has doubled. The
Chinese like our goods and they like us,
with the result that we making a steady
and rapid gain in their patronage.-Boston
Globe.
It appears that during a period Of twenty
years this country almost quadrupled its
output Of iron, the average annual produc-
ton from 1891 to 1895 amounting to S,263 900
tons. against only 2,2S4,O00 during the period
from 1871 to 1876 Great Britain's annual
output in the same time increased from
6,562,0O0 to 1921, 900, Germany's from 1,s46 900
to 5,0S0.O00 and Frances from 1855 600 to
2,OO6,OO0 tons. In the last three years. more
over, the American output has been steadily
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
A -four combine is talked Of, taking In the
Minneapolis, Duluth and New York mills.
1t will be the biggest thing on record. The
Minneapolis mills alone turn out IL 00O 900
barrels of flour a year, and consume 60, 900 900
bushels OF wheat. Opposition comes from
London syndicates that have acquired large
interests in the Touring industry of Mime
aPolis.-Pittsburg Post.
President Hill, Of the Great Northern, at
Seattle the other day said he had been COM
PEELED to refuse 60, 900 tons of steel rails and
$1,000 tons of cotton. as freight for Asia, on
his road, because there was no suitable mer-
chant marine on the Pacific ocean. He
throws the responsibility on that relic Of an
tiquated protection, the American navigation
laws, which prohibit American shippers from
purchasing foreign-built vessels and placing
them under an American register. This IS
the champion idiocy Of the protection sys-
tenn. The whole thing is soon to go by the
boards-protective duties because they are
no longer needed and do not provide reve-
nues, and the antiquated navigation laws be-
cause the spirit is taking hold Of our people
that the merchant marine must be re-estab-
lished in its old proportions.-Pittsburg Post.
Prince Bismarcks brain, according To thu
estimate of the anthropologist, Otto Ammon.
was probably the heaviest known to ana
tomical science. Herr Ammon in consultation
with Prof. Schafer, the sculptor concluded
from measurements taken for Schafer's bust
that the brain Of the old statesman weighed
1,S67 grammes and consequently exceeded In
weight that of any known genius CuyIer's
brain weighed 1880 grammes, Byron's 1907
Rants 1850. Schiller's $3.50, and Dante's
1,42o. The average weight OF the brain Of
an intelligent European is only 1880 gram
mes.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The importation Of American bicycles into
Germany increased by $50 per cent In the
first few months Of this year, compared with
1897. It Ia stated that Q Munich agent has