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Show Tun industrial production in Phil-atlrlphia Phil-atlrlphia during J87o is stated by Hie iXmlft Amrrican at live hundred ant) ii fly-two million of dollars. This in a handsome increase upon (ho total dificlnsyrl by the cniiu of 137U. Tho chief branches of industry aro tho iron, which reports a product of nearly fifty-four million; sloel, ten milium; sugar nnd molaries nearly Lwentysix million; 1 woolen goods nearly forly-fmir million; carpet h, nine teen million; cotton goods, twenty-four in ill ion, and bonis and allocs, eighteen million. Tiiu Hot embraced a wide range of manufacturer, manufac-turer, everything in fact thai can ho mudo in Ibis portion of the glybo. The man eaimg liger sayu l.and anl t'.ei rarely lunches any oilier animal when lie lias once tasted tinman blood. He lurks in the neighborhood of villages, and carrisa oH laborers returning from work, or women going tor water. "She crawls i to the edge of the thicket nnd looks 1 round. " It is only ?.u unarmed trav-1 eler. The hungry devil knows well that he is an easy prey; she creeps toward her unconscious victim with the soft and noiseless tread of a cat; her long tail switches from side to Bide, her sharp claws dart from their velvet sheaths, tho devil is roused within her, and glares in her flaming Qveballs; she throws herself torward with a cat-like bound, and the stricken wretch i? writhing in her fatal grasp, while with closed eyes and a low growl, expre?sivo ot savage delight, she Bucks the warm blood , from his mangled throat." |