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MANUFACTURES OF RHODE IsLAND.-The extension of the manufactures in this country forms one of the most remarkable and in- structive portions ol its history. In 1910 the manufactures of Rhode Island, as ascertained by the census of that year, were as follows : twenty-six cotton mills, containing 26,O30 spindles, two wolen mills, containing 246 spindles; twenty-five fulling mills; twenty four carding machines; four thousand five hundred and sixty-fye looms, principally in families; two paper hangings manufactures :; one snuff mill; two sugar refneries one salt works; one brass foundry; nine rope walks :; twenty-eight saw mills; twelve water mills For making machinery, two for grinding bark and one for dressing leather; twelve rum dis tlleries three gin dstlleres; one steel fur mace; two iron works; three forges two bloomeres; seven air furnaces one sitting mill thirty-three trip hammers; one screw manuactory and six cut nail manulactories. The amount of cotton cloth made annually was ,, Il ,729, and the average price was 40 cents a yard. The total value of articles manufactured Tn the State, was S2,847, ,629. What contrast does this present to the pre- sent condition of manufactures in Rhode Is- land. The number of cotton factories now exceeds two hundred. Several of the estab- llshments contain more spindles than the to- tai number in l8l0 The amount invested in manufactures of various kinds in this State. exceeds ten millions of dollars, and the ex- ports from Narragansett Bay exceed thirty millions of dollars annually.

 Providence Journal.