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ST. JOSEPH 193 ST. LAWBENCE tubes, flour, etc. Pop. (1920) 7,251. (1910) 5,936; ST. JOSEPH, a city and county-seat of Buchanan co., Mo.; on the Missouri river, and on the Burlington Route, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, the Chicago Great Western, the Missouri Pacific, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, the St. Joseph and Grand Island, and the Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph railroads; 60 miles N. W. of Kansas City. It is the third city in the State in population and is one of the wealthiest cities of its size in the United States. Business Interests. — St. Joseph has up- ward of 300 manufacturing establish- ments. The chief manufactures are cloth- ing, shirts, overalls, flour, and grist mill products, boots and shoes, furniture, machinery, packed meat, and woolen blankets. The city is the trade center of a large and rich agricultural region, with which it has a large jobbing trade. It is also an important shipping point for cattle, hogs, and grain, and one of the greatest live stock markets in the coun- try. There are several National and pri- vate banks, and numerous daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. The assessed property valuation exceeds $50,000,000, and the total bonded debt is about $600,000. Public Interests. — The city has an area of 13.87 square miles. The sewer system covers the entire city, and the streets are lighted by electricity. There is a public school enrollment of over 12,000 pupils. Here are the Ensworth and Central Medi- cal Colleges, College of St. Joseph (non- sect.), Academy of the Sacred Heart (R. C), the State Lunatic Asylum, St. Jo- seph's Hospital, Ensworth Hospital, public library, waterworks, and street railroads. History. — The city was established by Joseph Robidoux in 1843; incorporated as a town in 1845 ; and chartered as a city in 1885. ^ After the discovery of gold in California it became prominent as the starting-point for mining parties on their way across the prairies. During the Civil War it was fortified by the Federals. Pop. (1910) 77,403; (1920) 77,939. ST. JOSEPH, a river in Michigan whose course is in Hillsdale co., and which flows into Lake Michigan at St. Joseph. Its course is very winding and nearly W. and N., curving through Elk- hart co., Ind., and touching South Bend, and a few miles below that city returning to Michigan, and then flowing N. through Berrien co. It is navigable to South Bend and is 250 miles long. Another river of the same name is in southern Michigan and passes across a part of northwestern Ohio and northeastern In- diana, uniting at Fort Wayne with St. Mary's river and so forming the Maumee. Its length is about 100 miles. ST. JOSEPH ISLAND, an island in the outlet of Lake Superior into Lake Huron. It belongs to Ontario, Canada, is 20 miles long, 15 miles wide. SAINT - JUST, ANTOINE LOUIS LEON FLORELLE DE, a French revolu- tionist; born in 1767. He adopted with enthusiasm the principles of the Revolu- tion, became the right hand of Robes- pierre, and was one of the most energetic ANTOINE L. L. F. DE SAINT-JUST and resolute members of the Mountain party. He was an effective speaker, but unscrupulous and uncompromising. The guillotine was his general answer to all arguments and actions which did not har- monize with his own. He fell with Robes- pierre through the events of the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794), and perished on the same scaffold with him on the fol- lowing day, July 28, 1794. ST. LAWRENCE, a river of North America, forming in its upper reaches part of the N. boundary of the United States, but for the most part confined to the Canadian Dominion. It issues from Lake Ontario at Kingston, where the name begins to be applied to the river, though the remotest source of the highest feeder of its basin, the St. Louis, which enters the W. end of Lake Superior, is in the N. E. of Minnesota. Passing