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

around as Grover Cievelands thigh and
rising from the floor to about the height of
the spot on which President Harrison's
hat rests. The tops of these candlesticks
were ID the shape of disc and each top
had number of hoes in which to stick
candles. The worshipers whom | followed
trotted from one of these candelaora to an
other, lighting q candle before each and
putting it up TO burn before the picture.
While they stood and crossed themselves
before the saints | saw other candles being
passed up from man TO man, finally reach
ing the hands of the church officer who
presided over each candIestick and being
lit by him and put before the saint There
were probably 500 candles burning at one
time in this one church aud when you re-
member that this goes on ali over Russia
every Sunday and every holiday and dur
ing most OF the days of the week you can
see where the candles GO to. A large part
of the candles used are made in houses and
not in large factories, and in fact the house
industry of Russia seems to surpass that
of the factories. 1t is estimated that there
are $500, 600 workmen in Russia who make
things at their own homes, and one author
ity states that these people tu-r out 81 $780,,
900, 900 worth of goods every year. These
people in many cases peddle their ~oods
themselves. and in some instances hey
work for the factories.
QUEER TRADES IN RUSSIA.
Russia has in fact many queer trades of
which we know nothing. Along the Volga
there are colonies who make u speciality of
breeding and raising cats, which are sold
for the fur and which are usually disposed
of to peddiers. The cats bring from > TO
to ID cents apiece anu the peddler collects
them in bag, kills them as soon as he gets
away from the villages in which they have
been bought and takes OF their skins,
which are shipped by him to the fur CEN
tiers of the empire. In village not far off
from the home of Tolstoi, in Tula, there
are eighty families who do nothing else but
raise canares, and in Tamboff there is a
section where pigeons are bred for the sake
of their skins, which are sold at the weekly
bazaars and at the fairs. The feathers are,
of course, left on the skins and they event
uslly form part of some lady's cloak or
hat In riding down the Volga at every
station at which the boat stopped the peas
ants would come To the wharves with their
wares for sale. At Kazan ragged, bare
headed, bare-legged Tartars trotted
around with long bars of what / thought
was beesWax for sale. but which turned
out to be soap which is much noted in
Russia. Here / also found all sorts of
leather manufactures, from boots and Slip
pers made of little pieces of different col
OreO leaUu6r S6Wcu tOgobu6E 10 l6dtuer
coats and travelling bags. | bought pair
of boots and pair of slippers for 81, and
was offered very good travelling satchel
OF the finest Russian leather for Sl.50
SOME WONDERFUL sHAwLs.
| bought shawl in Moscow today which
ia so large that il would cover the biggest
double bed in America ald SO fine that it
will go through lady's ring. 1t was
made by the peasants OF Orenburg and is
of the kind known as ring shawls. 1t was
made entirely by hand and the tine lace
work of these Russian peasants is wonder
full The velvets made by them are noted
all over Europe and some of their velvets
bring IS a yard They make carpets which
are equal TO those OF Persia and Turkey,
and / met here at Moscow American buy
ers for Tiffany & Company of New York
and Bailey, Banks 81 Biddle of Philadel-
phia, who are sent here to buy tbs wonder
full Russian silver and the famous Dronzes,
which are finer than those of any other
part of the world There is a factory here
in Moscow which makes this gold and sil-
YER enamel ware which is so rare and so
high priced, and the tea sets which were
given by the czar TO the sea captains VINO
brought ovar the famine supplies were