The printers and publishers payj on an average $495 per hand ; the scales and balances manufacturer.-*, $487.50, and the ship-builders a little over $500 ; but these industries employ only men and these in limited number.

The worst paid bread-winners are the shirt makers. The five firms engaged in this business give employment to 15 men, 477 women and 4 children, at average wages of $142.23. Total amount of wages $70,550 ; material used, .$335,600; gross receipts, $477,750. Profit margin, $71,600, on a working capital of $49,000.

One steel pen manufacturer with a capital of $22,- 500, employs 5 men and 45 women, on average wages of $200. Aggregate of wages and material, $13,450. Gross products, $24,000.

The manufacture of boots and shoes is another important industry, giving employment to 673 men, 180 women and 36 children, whose average wages are $291.29. The capital invested in this business is $333,600, the material used cost costs $865,544, and the amount of products is $1,235,644. Eleven establishments are engaged in this business.

Eight firms are engaged in marble and stone work. Most of the granite works in the country are suited for rough work only, and the stone is quarried for local use. A coarse-grained gneiss, striped alternately light and dark, which is quarried near Hastings, is extensively used in New York City for general construction purposes.

The Tuckahoe marble is quarried at several points. The following interesting account of the belts of Dolomite of Archiean age in which these

quarries are, is taken from " Notes by Professors Cook and Smock," published in the census reports (vol. X.)