The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-03

Suilsies Oh European governments have
p ps placed In the United States during
, sne pi'sssHt year. The new German
ooiiuS mature In 1904 and 1866
The P. P. keeps IN the attempts to
answer the arguments of Carl schurz IN
ms arrangement Of McKinleys admins
tration.
Inc september. reports made by Ameri-
can consuls abroad say that the manu-
tactuflng business of Europe seems to
nave entered on a period Of depression.
Inc disturbance Ia China is assigned a.;
partial cause of'7the manufacturing de-
preston In the British Isles. From many
parts OF Germany come reports Of stag
natlon IN manufacturing industries, and
thousands OF looms and spindles are idle.
IN the flrst six months of the present
calendar year the imports Of wool into
Germany declined 20 per cent in quantity
as compared with last year. The fact
that the governments are not buying as
many army supplies has something TO
do with letting the ewind cut Of the boom.
And that WHIPS come in the United
States. III an
Look out for all sorts of preposterous
political claims as election day ap.
proaches- 1f-there is deal between
Bryan and Croker to dispose Of federal
patronage in New York, as Senator Han
ma insists, 1t is probably no more of sin
than the existence of a similar arrange
ment between Mr.. Hanna and Senator
Plat
Today Oct. 8, Is the anniversary of the
birth, in 1900, of George Bancroft, the
historian. and secretary of the navy I'M
der Polk, and who established the naval
academy at Annapolis and improved the
observatory at Washington of George
R pley, in 1902, a distinguished American
Journalist, and joint editor with c. A.
Dana in editing Appleton's Cyclopedia;
Of Harriet Hosmer, in 1881, the eminent
American sculptor
The corn crop is said to be the biggest
in history Two thousand million bush
els of corn is about the size of the crop
now assured, which, at rs cents a bushel
o nthe farm, means an addition of $780,
100000 to the wealth of the farmers of
the United States, of which Iowa leads
among the states. Minnesota, too, shares
in the corn crop.
Rev. John Wright, of st. Paurs Episco-
pal church, who is home from a trip
abroad, is author of valuable work on
may not know.
Under the pretext of trouble in China
the tea importers have put up the price
of tea from 10 ito Is per cent. 1t is not
| prosperity in this case, but misfortune.
There was a good deal of talk when a
congress first in it's two sessions appro-
| priated a billion of dollars. It won't he
| q he 70 wi IA
| two billions. A summary of the first
session of the F'ifty-sixth congress, which
! recently adjourned shows the grand to-
| tai of $710, 150, 1852 $751; The details by bills
are as follows: Agricultural, $4,02S, 800;
army, S114, 22O, 095. 55i diplomatic, $1,77l,-
1876; District OF Columbia, $7,577, 1863 81 /;
fortifica tons, $73S362S; Indian 49, 197, 9S6 u;
legislative, $24. LIE, 652.53; military academy,
$674, 30S67; naval .yn $65, $40, 1861; pension,
$145, PAS 2SO; posteflce, $11365S. rs; river
and harbor, $560,000; sundry civil, SIS, 319, :
Sl5 45; deficiency, SIS 6SS, 330.61; miscella-
neous, $3,SO2, SO1.S4; permanent, $132, 712,-
| 220. q. gig
4a-o-
| There are over $4,000 cigar factories in
the United States, and during the f2cal
year ending June &c. 1900. the internal rev.
enue tax on cigars amounted to 81, 600,
| 600.
| Auctions in Japan are quietly conduct
| ed. Bidders write their offers on slips OF
! paper and drop them in box and the
| highest bidder gets the article.
| The sugar people are preparing to put
up the price Of their commodity under
| the claim that there is "a shortage of
100000 tons in the worlds crop"
$50 --o4--ss5.1 e.5}t-it-s -.gea-
That trade is being figured down to
pennies is evident from the work of the
mint There were S2,559, 4O7 more pen
MES coined in the fiscal year 1900 than N
1889, 9,210, 260 more nickels, 3,730,270 more
dimes, 8, 1884, $50 more quarters and 4,256, 40S
more half dollars.
People are not only right-handed and
left-handed, but they are right-eyed and
| left-eyed and right-eared and left-eared.