... COAL AZlD IRON TRADES OF AMERICA. The monthly summary of commerce and finance of the United States prepared by the Bureau of Statistics contains interesting figures relating to the coal trade of the States and the world, and the imports and the exports ...

... copper to Europe, a small cross-tide of exports from Europe to America. This complicates matters. Reckoning what was sent to America as a delivery, the home consump- tion, plus the exports to America, considerably exceeded the supplies received into Europe ...

... silnesa continues brisk in the chief local indastrie. For needles a marled impeavement is noticeable. -The deiriand from America for band- sewing.needles of all-qualities is fairly lrmL ed the i season prom)ses to be a satistactory one. Businea with Canada ...

... also signs of a. better all-round demand for the usual makes of hand sewing-needles. There is a rather firmer demand from America for needles of the medium and better qualities, and a fur- ther improvement may be expected as thb autumn advances. A little ...

... 43,629 tons for the first half of 1899; so that high pricos have had no ver-z stimulating effect on mining enterprise. In America. the response has been rathernmore positive in its character. Forthesimmontha the quantity reported is 134,577 tons, which ...

... the enormocs increase in our own produaction, our tacde with America had shrunk to 119, 607 tons. But this is not all. In 1895 a still more decided change took plane, as in ehat year America first entered the field as a competitor inforeign markets. In ...

... present, about reached its utmost limits, owing to the difficulty in obtaining supplies of raw materials, especially coke. In America, where there has been the greatest expansion, the monthly production is barely maintained, and the last returns show a falling-off ...

... pointed out that malleable fittings were coining very much into use. America was makmg tubes which were exported to tcis country, and sent fittings with them, and it was a fact that in America no wrought-iron fittings were made. Another argument wwhich the' ...

... the element or part which clips the seat pillar. MItSCE5LLANE'SOUS No. 8,467. S. S. Chisholm, -f Chicago, United States, America.--Excavators: The invention consists in operating the bucket of an excavator by means of a pivotally supported'bucket arm ...

... India, Canada, and the general colonial market is steadily improvng. There is no change in the state of trade with South America and the Continental market re- mains much the same as it was a week ago. In the home trade business is rather slack. In the ...

... bear sates for July and August delivery made but little imnorcssion on - values in the absence of any sustained support from America. American pro- ducers do nor, however, press sales, and the large exports from the United hitatos to Europe keep the stocks ...

... PRFDDITnC-Business continnes blnsk - Srade the activity for some one not1Ce-,' and full time is being made. lieretai aS from America for hand-sewing nsedlo1 *. 2 foreign and colonial ma.rkets. Trade ;t2. is very poor. Good rde. re ecimunz srjf Australia ...