ccommodates 70 pupils, and has a corps of 10 teachers, with roperty worth $35,000, a museum, library, philosophical and hemical apparatus, etc. Saint Mary's River, (1) the outlet of Lake Superior, 5 m. in l., whose rapids are avoided by a canal, built 1853, nd improved 1870, at an estimated cost of nearly $3,000,000; 2) a river rising in the Okeefenokee Swamp, and for 100 m. orming the boundary between Ga. and Fla.

Saint Mauʼrice River, total 1. 216 m., empties itself nto the St. Lawrence from the N., 9 m. below Lake St. Peter. The falls of Shawenegan, 22 m. above its mouth, 160 ft. h., re, next to Niagara, the grandest in Canada.

Saint Michael's, a town in Talbot Co., Md., on the Chespeake Bay. It is in a fine farming region, and its principal ndustries are the shipping of oysters and fish and building of ships. Pop. 1,329.

Saint Michael's, the largest and most important of the Azores; area 224 sq. m., pop. about 115,000. The island is mountainous, and rises in the highest summit to 3,560 ft. The chief town is Ponta Delgada; pop. 16,000.

Saint Michael's Mount, a conical and isolated rock in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, 3 m. E. of Penzance. The Mount is 195 ft. h., is about 1 m. in circumference, and is crowned by an old and picturesque castle.

Saint Michel, Mont. See MONT SAINT MICHEL. Saint Moritz, in Upper Engadine, Switzerland. Near this town, in the Grisons, are strongly chalybeate waters, which are used both internally and externally. The town itself has been recommended as a residence for cases in which steady cold and tenuity of atmosphere are indicated. The waters are resorted to in cases of hysteria, neuralgia, leucorrhoea, etc.

Saint Myron, Mineral Waters of, cold acidulous waters near Riom, in the Dept. of Puy-de-Dôme. They contain carbonic acid gas, sub-carbonate of soda, chloride of sodium, and carbonate and sulphate of lime.

Saint Nazaire, a thriving sea-port of France, in the Dept. of Loire-Inférieure, at the mouth of the Loire; pop. 30,935. Saint Nectaire, Mineral Waters of, springs in the Dept. of Puy-de-Dôme, France; carbonated thermal alkaline waters. Temperature 75° to 103° Fahr.; season June 15 to Sept. 15.

Saint Omer, a town of France, and a fortress of great strength, in the Dept. of Pas-de-Calais, on the Aa; pop. 21,404.

Saint Pardaux, Mineral Waters of, chalybeate springs in the Dept. of Allier, France. They contain carbonic acid and iron.

Saint Paris, a village in Champaign Co., O. It has several large flour-mills, planing-mills, carriage and wagon manufactories, and broom factories. Large shipments of flour, lumber, grain, and livestock are made annually. Pop. 1,575. Saint Paul, the cap. of Minn. and of Ramsey Co., and next to the largest city in the State, on both sides of the Mississippi River, 2,082 m. from its mouth. The larger portion of S. P. lies on the E. bank of the river. The river is crossed by five bridges. Along the river the ground is low and flat. Then rises a terrace, on which is the main business portion of the city and many dwellings. Back of this is another terrace, made up of irregular bluffs, upon which the best residence section is located. Included in the city limits are the suburbs of Union, Groveland, St. Antony, Merriam, Macalester, Arlington Hills, and Desnoyer Park. The streets are well paved and lighted, and aggregate 46 m. Ravines and R.R. tracks are crossed by nearly 50 street bridges. The finest residence street in S. P. is Summit Avenue, running along a high bluff and lined with magnificent dwellings. There are more than 100 m. of cable and electric street railways. No horse-cars are in use. S. P. has 24 fine parks, the largest being Como Park, covering 377 acres. Others are Rice, Summit, Irvine, and Smith Parks. The city's water supply is obtained from several lakes between four and five m. N. of S. P., which furnish from 8,000,000 to 9,000,000 gallons a day, through 230 m. of mains. The city's waste is carried off in 145 m. of sewers. S. P. is a very important R.R. center. Among the R.Rs. connecting it with every part of the U. S. and Canada are the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Burlington and Northern, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, the Chicago and Great Western, the Minneapolis and St. Louis, the St. Paul and Duluth, the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, the Eastern Minnesota, the Omaha, and the Wisconsin Central. These give connections with all the great trunk lines in the country. They connect, also, with steamships on Lake Superior, and a large per

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centage of S. P.'s commerce with the East is carried on the great lakes. According to the last census, S. P. had 1,442 manufacturing establishments, representing a capital of $22,501,211, and employing 18,558 persons. Its leading industries are meat-packing, machinery, agricultural implements, boots and shoes, and furniture. It carries on a very large wholesale trade with Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and Idaho. The assessed valuation of real and personal estate in 1895 was $134,337,309. There are 22 banks. Among the principal buildings in S. P. are the State capitol, the city hall, in which is the public library; the post-office, the R. C. cathedral of St. Paul, and the People's Church. In the eapitol is the library of the State Historical Society, containing over 20,000 volumes. S. P. was founded in 1838, its first settlers being principally French engaged in the fur trade. In 1841 a R. C. mission was established there, giving the place its name. S. P. was made the cap. of the Territory in 1849. incorporated as a city in 1854. Pop. (1890) 133,156; est. (1897) 195,000.

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Saint Paul, a city, cap. of Howard Co., Neb., in the center of a rich agricultural and grazing region. It has several large flour-mills, five churches, three banks, and three newspapers. Pop. 1,700.

Saint Paul, a commercial town, and the cap. of the island of Bourbon; pop. 16,262.

Saint Paul de Loan'da, city and cap. of Portuguese colony of Angola, a considerable sea-port on the S.-W. coast of Africa, the principal Portuguese settlement in Lower Guinea, at the mouth of the river Bengo. Ivory, bees-wax, hides, coffee, rubber, and palm-oil are the principal exports. Is one of the oldest white settlements on the coast; the older part of the town is substantially built of stone, and was once celebrated for its fine monasteries, now in ruins. Pop. 20,000.

Saint Peter, a city, cap. of Nicollet Co., Minn, on the Minnesota River. It has flour-mills and extensive machinery works, and a large trade in lumber and agricultural products. There are two banks, churches and schools, and four newspapers and periodicals. S. P. is the seat of Gustavus Adolphus Coll. (Luth.,) and the State Hospital for the Insane. Pop. (1890) 3,671; est. (1897) 5,500.

Saint Peter-le-Port, commonly called St. Peter's, the cap. and chief town of the ISLAND OF GUERNSEY, (q. v.) Among its old and well-known buildings are Elizabeth Coll., the Government House, and the Hauteville House. The latter was the home of VICTOR HUGo, (q. v.,) during his exile from France. Pop. 16,658.

Saint Petersburg, a maritime govt. of Russia, one of the Baltic Provinces, between Lake Ladoga on the N.-E. and Lake Peipus on the S.-W.; area 17,057 sq. m., pop. 1,869,752. Much of its surface is covered with marshes and forests, and the climate is damp and cold.

Saint Petersburg, the cap. of the Russian Empire and of the govt. of the same name, stands upon the lower branches of the Neva, and on the shores of the E. extremity of the Gulf of Finland, 16 m. E. of Cronstadt, its port; lat. 59° 56' N., long. 30° 19′ E. The Great Neva, the most

S. branch of the Neva, divides the city into two sections the Petersburg Side on the N., and the Great Side on the S. The former is built on the islands which are formed by the delta of the Neva, the chief of which are the Vassili Ostrov, the Citadel Island, and the islands Aptekarskoi, Kammennoi, Petrovskoi, Krestovskoi, and Elaghinskoi. The Great Side, S. of the Great Neva, is compactly built, and contains the residences of the court and of the nobility, and more than half the population. The city covers an area of 42 sq. m., stands 56 ft. above the level of the sea, upon plains which were formerly malarious marshes, but are now for the most part drained and laid out in meadows and gardens. Pop. 1,035,439. The climate, severe in winter, is pleasant and mild in summer. The mean temperature in summer is 62°, in winter 14° Fahr. The extremes of temperature are 99° and —51°. Fourteen arms of the Neva, irrespective of the smaller branches, ramify through S. P., and there are seven canals. Peter's Square contains the noble and well-known equestrian statue of Peter the Great, 18 ft. h., and erected 1768-82. Of the 150 bridges that unite the islands, cross the canals, and span the Neva the Annitchkoff Bridge, leading across the Fontanka Canal, consists of five arches, is 110 ft. 1., and is decorated with four spirited groups, in bronze, of wild horses and their tamers by a native artist. The Nikolayevski Bridge is a magnificent structure in granite. The Winter Palace, destroyed by fire