SAINT PAUL (ante), a city in Ramsey co., s.e. Minnesota, incorporated 1854, its name derived from a primitive chapel dedicated to that saint by a Jesuit missionary 1841; pop. '80, 41,498. It is 10 in. e. of Minneapolis, 400 in. from Chicago, a terminus of 3 divisions of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, of the St. Paul and 3lani toba, the St. Paul and Duluth, the St. Paul and Sioux the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis, and the St. Paul, Stillwater and Taylor's Fidls railroads. It is built on terraced hills with a pleasing irregularity, the finest portion having been built within a few years, profiting by the impetus to progress iu tasteful architecture given by a sud den and remarkable activity in trade. It is 5 in. below the mouth of the _Minnesota river which is navigable during 7 months of the year. Across the Mississippi river a bridge is thrown, connecting it with West St. Paul,which was taken from Dakota co. and added to the city in 1874. Limestone, quarried in the vicinity, is much used for build ing purposes. It has a custom-house and post-office, an elegant granite structure, 2 theaters, several hotels, a court-house, it capital erected 1853, subsequently enlarged, and seriously damaged by fire in 1881, 4 public libraries with 24.000 volumes, and 4 private circulating libraries. It has 3 daily and 11 weekly newspapers, as number in the Swedish and German languages. Its water supply is drawn from lake Phalon, 3 in.
from the city, without artincial preS8tire. It contains the state reform school, an academy of natural sciences, a state historical society with a cabinet of 12t;,000 speci mens, public schools, 2 orphan asylums (tate Catholic and one Protestant), a commercial and a business college, anti Roman Catholic parochial schools with an attendance of over 2,000 pupils. It has a beautiful putilic park of 260 acres on the shore of hike Como, mid several public squares. Among its public institutions are the twine for the friend less, and 2 Magdalen reformatories. It is divided into 6 wards; has a mayor, a council of 3 members than each ward, and an efficient police force. It is lighted by gas, and has a fire department with an electric alarm, and street railways. It has 2 grain eleva tors, and in one year there was shipped 1,458,800 bushels of wheat, and 180,112 barrels of flour. The steamboat arrivals average over 800 annually. It has 6 national banks with an aggregate capital of $2.150,000, 3 private banks, a savings bank, a tire, a mashie, and a life insurance company. The leading industries are the manufacture of machinery, agricultural implements, blank books, ale and beer, furuiture, carriages, boots and shoes, lumber, sashes, doors, and blinds, etc. It leis au extensive wholesale trade.