The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-28
FOREIGN BUSINESS NEWS,
Some scraps Of Business Information
culled from Various Sources,


Some scraps Of Business Information
culled from Various Sources,
Turkey bought t2lS. S25 worth Of Amer
lean flour last year.
France, Algeria and Tunis produced
], 2ss, 0l6 900 gallons Of wine in 1888.
England received &525,242 worth Of
shoes from the United States in 1893.
Germany has sol manual training
schools, located In COS different towns
Bremen received 1.O45,OO0 bales OF
American cotton up to November l.
Uuruguay gets her table salt from
England and her common salt from ga
dig.
The Wholesale price Of English sho !, 3
imported to Sweden is from 81 % to y %
a pair
Germany Increased her pig iron out.
put from 1,9sS,OOO tons In 1877 to 1'=lo'VV'
in 1889.
There are 1887 miles of completed
railway in Africa, and 1920 miles pro-
tected.
German gas companies pay SIS q ton
for Australian coal, and from s. % TO
~ bs TOT EhgllhH'
Bordeaux buys about 100000 barrel
staves per year, all but two millions OF
which come from Austria.
The proposed ocean cable from CO.
penhagen to Iceland will be 1914 miles
long. and cost about SsS0,O00
Warsaw is the center Of the watch
trade for Russia, and Switzerland sells
overia million rubles' worth annually
Americans desiring to become dem
lists in Belgium must not only have d.
plOmas, but must pass q careful exam
nation.
During the last fifty years chemicals
to the amount OF S1,sS2, $50 were export
ed from Liverpool to the United states,
being about $15OO.OOO less than In 1893
Walnut logs from % to % inches In d.
ameter are worth from Sl05 to Sll6 a
thousand feet In Rotterdam. Poplar
Is worth S3S; white oak S45; hickory $Sf'
France exports about 25O,OOO,OOO oys-
tiers annually. The European oyster IL
valued according to the Graenne5s oil
It's color and the brasslness OF Its ia
vor.
There were 1,O57.s3s acres seeded to
sugar beets IN Germany last year The
yield issaiboutFeleven and quarter tons
per acre Of beets, containing 1871 per cent
Of sugar,
Paraguay imported 32S,5s2 worth of
shawls and $l2,lOo worth Of handksr-
chiefs last year. The former came
NfrOm Germany and the latter from
Great Britain.
American lard sells in Singapore ut
"a cents a pound in ten-pound cans:
American canned fruits, vegetables and
meats, as well as American buggies, are
also sold there.
The rolling stock, machinery and wire
for the Bangkok (Siam) trolley line
wers supplied from America, the rails
In England. The road pays IL per
cent on the investment.
All the soap in Paraguay is made
from cocoa oil Cows ext the pulp
from the nuts. leaving the hull enclosing
the kernel clean and smooth. a COW
will clean forty or fifty nuts per night
The phyloxeria Destroyed $1,000 acres
of vineyards in Spain In 1899, Vines In
Spain OF France are not worth cuittvat
ing unless they are grated with the
American vine, which renders them
proof against the insect.
Two thousand varieties of chrysan-
themums were exhibited at the last Ly-
ons show, while the whole number Of
varieties in France is estimated to be
from eight to ten thousand One plant
in Lyons contains fifty blooms.
Japan last year had fift"-elght rail-
way companies, with combined capl-
tai OF Sill, 1905 $50, and mileage Of S,7Sf
miles They carried 99,06l.sSs passen-
gers and 9,9l6l2G tons of freight. The
aggregate profits were $G,ss0,G7s
Switzerland imported 1902 bicycles in
1898, the highest priced ones, S65 80, COM
ing from Belgium, and the lowest, $40 10.
coming from America. The American
wheel is admitted to be the best as well
as cheapest. Only tWenty-one wheels
were imported In 1896.
At the summer and winter races in
Moscow and st. Petersburg $4,000 Fu-
bles are offered in prizes, and Ameri-
cam Russian cross-bred horses are eligi-
bic to compete for 747,0O0 rubles Of this.
No American horses are allowed in the
imperial studs, either full or cross
bred. American horses soon becoms
nccllmated in Russia, and stand the cold
as well as native horses.
Laboring classes and farmers in Bclgl-
um wear wooden shoeB. costing from s
to 20 cents a pair. On Sundays they
wear leather shoes, costing from rs cents
to 81 25, or cloth slippers costing from
rs to Is cents pair. No fine ready
made shoes are to be had and custom
shoes cost from 81 so to Sc a pair. Bucnos
Ayres supplies all the leather for the
footwear for the Belgian army.