The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-22
FOREIGN BUSINESS VIEWS.
Some Scraps Of Business Called
From Various American Consuls.

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Germany increased her pig iron output from
i,9ss, 900 tons In 1872 to T. 2i5, 900 in 1899,
German gas companies pay SIS a ton for Aus
tralian coal, and from q. o. TO 80 SO for English
switzerland imported 5.o27 bicycles In 1903
the highest priced ones. SOS 30, coming from
Belgium. and the lowest. $40 10, coming from
America. The American wheel Is admitted TO
be the best IA well ~ cheapest. Only twenty
one wheels were imported in 1895.
England received sj2j, 242 worth OF shoes from
the United States in 1899.
The wholesale price OF English shoes i'm
ported to Sweden /. from 81 90 to 81 50 a pair.
Iaborins classes and farmers In Belgium
wear wooden shoes costing from 9 to 20 cents
a pair. On Sundays they wear leather shoes
costing IS cents 10 81 IS a pair, or cloth slippers
costing from rs to rs cents q pair. No fine
readv-made shoes are 10 he had and custom
shoes cost from $3.50 10 50 a pair. Buenos
Ayres supplies all the leather for the footwear
Of the Belgian Army.
Walnut logs from - 10 20 inches in diameter
are worth from Sos to Sis a thousand feet In
Rotterdam. Poplar is worth So; white oak s'5;
hickory S+. .
slaves per year. all but two million NJ which
come from Austria,
Bremen received l,O45, e35 bales Of AmeH-
can cotton up TO Nov. |, 1899.
France. Algeria and Tuni produced l.fos,-
0la 90 gallons of wine in 1899. .
The phylloxera destroyed $4,000 acres Of
vineyards In Spain IN 1892 Vines IN Spain or
are grated with the American vine which rem
dsrs them proof against the insect;
There were i,057 ,o3s acres seeded 70 sugar
bssts in Germany last year. The Weld is about
eleven and a quarter tons per acre OF beets. con-
talning 1911 per cent OF sugar.
Turkey bought s2i3,3 25 worth OF American
-four last year.
At the summer and winter races In Moscow
and 81. PetcrYbnrg 500 900 rubles are offered
in prizes, and ,Ame~rican-Russian cross-bred
Of this. No American horses arc allowed in
the Imperial studs. either full or cross-bred.
American horses soon become acclimated in
Russia and stand the cold a. well az native
horses.
The proposed ocean cable from Copenhagen to
Iceland will be zoe miles long and cost about
France exports about $50, 600. mo oysters an
nually. Tho European. oyster Is valued accord
ing to the %Sreenness OF its color and the brass
mess Of It's favor.
We're eyh'oited At the last lyons show. while
the whole number of varieties In France IL
estimated 10 be IRON eight TO ten thousand.
one plant a., g. iso nS , Co1's rnsS SIty pl9oms' m.
amount Qf u 9s2, 500 wore exported from Liver
pool TO the United states, being about 81, 500, 900
less than IN 1893.
Americans desiring 10 become dentists In
Belgium must not only have diplomas. but must
pass a careful ex amination,
Germany ha:. sol manual training schools. To-
Gated In b6 different towns.
Thore are 1897 miles Of completed railway
In Africa, and A. 20 miles projected.
Japan Last year had fifty eight ralway oom-
s s.G : Ttis : ': y s,gS S "4.., # s5's . az: 80
20 Oei. $50 passengers ands.sla 1875 tons of freight
The aggregate prohts were So $50, e7s.
The rolling stock, machinery and wire for the
Bangkok slam trolley line were applied from
America the rails from England, The road
pays 10 per rent. on tho investment.
Uruguay Gsts her table salt from England
and her common salt from CadiH.
All the soap IN Paraguay !, made from cocoa
oil, Cow eat the pulp frsm the nuts. leaving the
hull Enclosing the kernel clean and smooth.
A COW will clean forty or fifty nuts per night.
Paraguay imported 32s. $50 worth Of shawls
and SIS. 400 worth Of hsndksrchicls asst year. The
former come from Germany and the latter from
Great Britain.
American lard sells in Singapore at ~ cents
a pound In tsn-pound cans. American canned
fruits, vegetables and meats, "a well a. American
buggies. are also sold there.
Warsaw Is the centre OF the watch trade for
Russia. and Switzerland sells over q million
rubles' worth annually.