Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Where Kid Gloves Are Made. [ARTICLE]

Where Kid Gloves Are Made.

The center of the kid glove trade has always been at Grenoble, a mountain oity of 56,000 people in France, where even the streets and publio squares sing of gloves, as one of each Is named after Xavier Jouvin, a veteran in the manufacture of fine kid gloves. The’raw skins manufactured here in a year are valued at $4,000,000. When made into 16,000,000 pair of gloves the value Is just doubled, and the making up of the employment to 30;00U people. The Lord Mayor’s Badge. The Lord Mayor qf London’s badge of office contains diamonds to the value pf $600,000, and the temporary owner has to give a bond for It before be is fWen la.

As near as we can learn th e would-be dictators about comprise the gang who, four years ago, nresumed to perform the confirmatory rites designed to land our friend Horace E. James in the Democratic fold. They declared that the Democracy of Mr. J. was on a pav with theirs, which no one wo’d dispute. Ylie result of their as** sumed leadership increased the Republican majority in Jasper county at that time over 200. In a business letter from a friend in Hammond, he stated as it were in parenthesis, “Your two competitors have been here since you were.’' We suppose the errand of one was to explain, if possible, the “caucus meeting. ” The local Democracy here are equally cone erned with Mr. Hammond in being informed with reference to tha affair. Our columns are still open for publication of the proceedings. Bring them along. —■ ■ 1 ■ ■ • ■ 1 4 Twenty-one Howard county populists who went on a bank note for SI,OOO to supolv the county organ, the Industrial Union, witli funds last year have been sued by the bank and will have to walk up to the captain’s office and settle. The HebroD, Porter county, Indiana, G. A. R. post, has petitioned Hon. George Gregg to vote against any appropriation for the proposed encampment at Indianapolis. That post is level.