Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — French Thrift. [ARTICLE]

French Thrift.

An eminent French statistician makes a clever and graphic presentation of the thrift of the French people. He says that a duplicate of the Eiffel tower, which weighs between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 kilograms, built of silver, and with twp additional stories added, wcfcld barely represent the actual savings of the French people deposited in the National savings banks. The kilogram is two nounds 3.20 ounces.