GLOVE-MAKING. The great seats of the leather glove manufacture in England at present are —Worcester, Woodstock, Yeovil, Leominster, Ludlow, and London. The number made every year in the town and im mediate neighbourhood of Worcester has been estimated to exceed 6,000,000 pairs. It is almost entirely a hand manufacture. Worsted gloves are made chiefly in and near Leicester, cotton gloves in Nottingham, and silk gloves in Derby. The manufacture of these three kinds is closely connected with that of stock ings, and will be found briefly noticed under HOSIERY MANUFACTURE.
In the year 1850 there were 3,261,001 pairs of leather gloves imported, chiefly from France. Very few English-made gloves are exported.
is the metallic base of an earth or oxide (Glucina) discovered by Van quelin in 1708. It is a fine powder of a deep gray colour, very difficult of fusion. When burnished, it acquires the metallic lustre. It
suffers no change by exposure to air or water, at common temperatures; but when heated to redness it burns, combines with oxygen, ROI is converted into glucina. Clueina, the only known oxide of the metal, is a light white powder, inodorous, tasteless, infusible, inso luble in water. Chloride of Glucinium is colour less, sweet, very fusible and volatile, and sublimes readily in white brilliant needles ; it deliquesces in the air. Glucinium combines also with bromine, iodine, and sulphur. The salts which glucina forms with acids are not I important. They are all colourless, except the chromate, which is yellow ; the taste is sweet, and hence the name of the earth, and slightly astringent. This rare metal has not yet been of much practical value in the arts.