The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-18

with revenue stamps and which have glass
tops. II you buy one cigar, it is in little
glass box, and there are boxes of two cigars,
three cigars and of five, SIX, ten, and q
dozen. Each bears its appropriate stamp,
and the bigger the box the bigger the
stamp. The result is that all foreign
articles are very high, and imported cigars
cost twice as much as they do with Us.
Articles manufactured in Russia, however,
are cheap, and it will be surprising to many
Americans to know what Russia makes.
MANUFACTURING IN RUSSIA.
There are over 300 factories in opera
ton about Moscow and you can see the
smokestacks standing like sentinels here
and there over the landscape, rivaling in
their height the golden spires of the
churches. These factories employ quar-
ter of q million of laborers and they turn
out about hundred and fifty million dol
lars worth of products every year. The
city of lula which is nights ride from
Moscow, has cutlery works which make all
kinds of irou and steel ware of the finest
quality. ] bought knife and razor dur
ing my visit there few days ago aud they
are as fine as anything that Sheffield or
Birmingham can produce 1t is at lula
that the samOvarS are made nearly 50, 000,-
600 worth being turned out every year.
and there are large gun factories here
ton industry is mainly confined to Moscow.
1t has trebled within the last ten years
and there are cotton mills here which
would be credit 10 Massachusetts. The
wooden factories are also increasing and
the day will come when Russia will manu-
facture most Of the goods consumed by
her vast population. At the present time
large amount of the manufactures are
the result of home industry. The peasants
10, n inn in hair horr
nearly every village has its specially of
some kind or other. Near Moscow there
is town which is noted for its beating of
gold leaf, and the people of this village
beat the gold out between cRlfskins, and
the monthly wages of q good gold beaten
are about 81. There are other vii
lagos that make wire, others which make
nothing but spectacle frames, and down in
Tuia there are about 2, 900 people who de-
vote themselves to the making of accordi-
ons Some Of the most besutiful ware
turned out at Moscow is the lacquer papier
mache. This is sold all over Europe. 1t
has the finish OF the Japanese laquer and
it is beautifully painted. This is done by
families who have worked at il for genera
tions. 1t was from them that the old-fash-
Toned snuff boxes came. and they now
make sleeve buttons. tea caddies, book
covers and lacquer pictures.
THE CANDLE BUSINESS IN RUSSIA.
Russia burns more candles to her popula-
ton than any other country IL Europe
She uses about sc, 900, 600 pounds of candles
every year. and one of the great sources
of income of the churches is their candle
sales. At the door Of every great cathe-
dral there are candle peddlers, who have
counters before them and who sell candles
to the worshipers as fast as they can hand
them out These men are dressed in the
uniform of the church. and they take in
pennies by the bushel. | watched couple
of them for long time at the entrance of
Kazan cathedral IN st. Petersburg, and In
the course of half and hour / saw at least
800 men, women and children buy candles
1t took two men TO supply them, and the
candles they bought were OF various sizes
and Of different prices. Some bought as
many as dozen and others were satisfied
with one. wondered what they would do
with them and walked in behind them The
interior of this church is as large as the
hall Of the House of Congress Its halls
were hung with golden icons and there
were jeweled icons on the pillars and act
into the solid silver altar of the back of
the church. Before each icon there was
silver candlestick with u stem as big