The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-02


rriated $4,000 and tea plants will be sent
to all agricultural experiment stations in
the Southern states
John d. Rockefeller's daily income is
$4,000. 1t is said that he complains OF
losing good deal of money in February
because it is couple of days shorter
than other months.
Apparently the only claim King Charles
of Portugal has to greatness is in his
size. He weighs 800 pounds, and is one or
the most inaccessible monarchs of Eu-
rope.
Senator Dolliyer, of Iowa, introduced
an amendmentto the agricultural appro-
priation bill, and the senate adopted 1t,
providing for a rigid inspection of all
dairy products intended for export Its
purpose is to prevent butter limitations
from being shipped abroad as genuine
butter, only to be rejected after trial and
test by the foreign consumer. BY the use
Of double export pail cover and other
cunning devices the makers or artlnclal
products have been enabled to avoid de-
lection as the goods are being sent
abroad. 1t is hard enough to capture the
foreign market at best and more difficult
still to hold it in the face of the opposi-
ton of foreign governments without the
handicap of fraudulent practices Wnich
serve to destroy confidence abroad In the
integrity of American products.
The new army bill provides for thirty
dentists to rank as surgeons. The MAX
ers of the bill didn't forget any chance
where some friend might be run into a
job.
P. S. Van Kirk, Paterson. N. j., con-
tractor on a wager recently put up a
building 50XS0 feet two stories high, in
four hours 1t had to be weather proof,
fioored and rooted and ready for occu-
pancy. Promptly at l o'clock seventy
five men leaped to the timberS, and as If
by magic the framework was up, the
Stats and rafters on and half hundred
hammers were mailing the sides and
roof.
Ireland has 2S peers and 103 common
ers i'll the British parliament. English
interests in Ireland are represented by
lord lieutenant. His salary is 100000 per
annum. His power is greater than that
of any other sovereign IL. Europe. He
can suspend the laws, arrest and keep
in prison any one he Wishes appoint and
dismiss at his pleasure any and all gov
eminent officials and pardon persons
convicted Of crime.
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On May the machinists of the country
will demand a nine-hour work day, and
all shops not granting it will be declared
unfair and a strike ordered. There are
$4,000 machinists employed by firms that
are not members of the National Metal
Trades association and 20 coo employed
by members of that organization. None
of the organization shops will be af-
fected, as the nineLhour day is already
in operation in thealatter establishments.
The .Tourneynan Bakers and Confeetion-
ers' international union, nearly $4,000
strong. will make q general demand for
a ten-hour day May 1, 1901. Members
are now working II to 16 hours daily.
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The publisher of Burkes Peerage. filled
with titled names Of Europe, says he
receives orders for more copies of the
work from America and receives more
inquiries from this country about ques-
lions of precedence than from all the
rest of the world. We are probably get
ting posted for the new aristocracy Of
money.
In a recent murder trial in New York
there was much conflict of testimony as
to whether certain stains were made by
human or aninal blood. It is not likely
that this controversy will be settled so
can be obtained to testify against each
other on the question at the usual rates.
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The new steel trust-the United States
Steel company-with 500 600 Of capital
and the very foundations of the iron and
steel business of the country in it's con-
troll, becomes the most powerful and ex-
tensive Industrial corporation ever crea-
ted. The most conservative statement of
the capital of this consolidation Of con-
solidations is as follows:
Carnegie Steel company ....... .$160 00o 900
Federal Steel company. 99,745, 600
American Steel and Wire Co... 10000 900
National Tube company ........ $4,000 COO
American Bridge company $50. 10000, 600
National Steel company $500. $1,000 coo
American Sheet Steel company 1900 900
American Tin Plate company :. 1926, 900
Ameri~ an Steel Hoop company $4,000. 600
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1851, OK, 900
This makes a complete monopoly of the
iron and I1Ilci0oSS in Apoariaa opd