Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1882 — What the Cities Manufacture. [ARTICLE]

What the Cities Manufacture.

The census returns of manufactures in the twenty principal cities show rather curious results. New York, which, of course, is first on the list of manufactures, reports the product of 1880 at ♦448,000,000. Yet if one were put to guessing at the principal item in the list he would guess clothing among the last, and then he would be badly out. The manufacture of men’s clothing in the year exceeded $60,000,000, or nearly one-seventh of the whole; add to this $18,000,000 for women’s clothing—and we find that men’s and women’s clothing make up more than one-sixth the manufacturing of that busy city. Men’s clothing is also the principal item in Baltimore (|9,000,000). In Boston it is a tie with sugar ($16,000,000), and in Cincinnati it leads at $13,000,000, and it is third on the Philadelphia list at $lB,000,000. (The statement is made in round numbers.) Brooklyn leads in refined sugar and molasses at $59,000,000 followed by Philadelphia with $24,000,000, Jersey City $22,000,000 and Boston $16,000,000. In meat packing Chicago is first, with $85,000,000, the other cities badly distanced. New York, which follows away out of sight, packed $29,000,000, the others trail along—Jersey City with $18,000,000, Cincinnati $11,000,000, Brooklyn and St. Louis running together with $8,000,000, Boston and Philadelphia with $7,000,000, Milwaukee $6,000,000. Philadelphia has a long lead on woolen goods, of which it produced $21,000,000, that, next to sugar, being its chief industry. In the- production of iron and steel Pittsburgh is a long way ahead of its competitors, with * $35,000,000 to its credit, followed by Cincinnati with $lO,000,000, Cleveland s9,' 00,000, and Philadelphia $5,000,00°. In boots and shoes Cincinnati and San Francisco run together with $4,000,000, followed by Baltimore $3,000,000 and Boston $2,000,000. New York leads in tobacco manufacture at $22,000,000, Providence makes $5,000,0000f jewelry and Newark $4,000,000. Buffalo takes the prize for the largest manufacture of glucose and grape sugar, $3,000,000. In carpets, with its manufactures of $14,000,000, Philadelphia is a very long way ahead of all the rest. Newark rushes to the front on leather, of which its manufactures are valued at $14,000,000. A long way off is Chicago with half as much, Pittsburgh with $6,000,000 and Milwaukee with $4,000,000. Pittsburgh leads in gloves, $5,000,000. Cincinnati in carriages and wagons, $5,000,000. New Orleans in cotton seed oil, $2,700,000. Philadelphia in hosiery and knit gloves, $7,000,000. New York in hats and caps, $4,000,000, and canned fruits $5,000,000. St. Louis is the champion manufacturer of flouring and grist mill products, of which it is credited with $13,000,000, followed by New York with $6,000,000 aud Milwaukee $4,000,000. The principal industries of the various cities are, Baltimore, clothing ; Boston, refined sugar ; Buffalo, musical instruments ; Chicago, meat packing ; Cincinnati, men’s clothing; Cleveland, iron and steel; Detroit, iron aud steel; Jersey City, refined sugar and molasses ; Pittsburgh, iron and steel; Providence, jewelry ; Ban Francisco, meat packing; Bt. Louis, flouring and grist mill products.—Detroit Pont. At Scotch Graves.

Everybody knows that there is no service at the grave in Scotland, although the clergyman under whom the deceased “sat” is often, indeed usually, present. The hats of those in attendance may be taken oft the moment after they havo lowered the coffin into the grave just for an instant, but even this is not. always the case. This habit of dispensing with religious exercises had its origin, no doubt, in the Scotch horror of doing anything that might give a color to the charge of following the Roman Catholic fashion of praying for the dead. The reading of a chapter of the Bible and a short prayer in the bouse before the cortege sets out for the church-yard is the sole religious service, and the preliminaries to this are sometimes of a kind to raise the idea that cure is taken to disconnect it from the peculiar circumstances of the occasion. Twenty years ago I was at a funeral in the country at which the minister and his colleague of the church to which tho deceased belonged attended. After the company had assembled, some decanters of wine and a tray of cake were brought in and set upon the table. Tho daughter of tho deceased, herself a clergyman’s wife, then suggested that tho senior minister should ask a “blessing !” This request served as an excuse for a long prayer appropriate to tho circumstances of the occasion which had brought us togother, and after that was over cako and wine were handed round. Then a request was mode that tho junior clergyman should “return thanks,” and he readily enough indulged in a prayer, in which ho gathered up the fragments suitable to the circumstances which his colleague hod omitted, and that was the whole religious service—simply a grace befero and after meat.— Macmillan's Magazine.