Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1896 — Fortunes in Old Bottles. [ARTICLE]

Fortunes in Old Bottles.

Out of the bottles that you and your neighbors throw away there are four or five dealers In Pittsburg that divide up a matter of $53,000 In profits every year. Then the old-bottle business is lot thoroughly worked In this city, but i« other large cities of the country the profits are many times greater. In this city the collectors gather up something over 3.000,000 bottles a year. The .iroflts range from half a cent io threo cents on each bottle. According to the figures given by a dealer yesterday, the average profit on each bottle is three-fourths of a cent. There Is condderable money invested in the business here, and It gives employment to t. large numbetr of men. Dealers here collect over three hundred classes of bottles and have a fixed price for each grade. Half of them are sold here, and the remainder are sent to New York and Brooklyn, Hugh Quinn, In the latter city, being the largest dealer. He has fifty warehouses there, where he receive* and stores bottles.—Plttsburf Foot Woman used to sweep everything before her, but this season she sweep) everything behind her.—Elmira 3*. zette. The busy men of the woild are the best men, provided they are busy with their own business.—Richmond Recorder. Thebe are times when forbearance eeases to be a virtue, but never when you are bothering somebody else.—Somerville Journal. It 1b easy to tell when a man is flattering your neighbor, but it isn’t so easy to decide when he i 3 flattering you. —Somerville Journal. Some people make home the dearest place on earth, while others are nevei satisfied unless it is the very cheapest. —Richmond Recorder.