Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1876 — INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND TECHNICAL. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND TECHNICAL.

Tmt Arkansas Valley Salt Qoinpany haa just made Its flrat barrel of salt. AmbricaK beef is now delivered in the new Smithfield Market, London, in flratclass order at a cost of twelve cents a pound. California has upward of 46,000,000 acres of unsurreyed land, 15,000,000 acres of which could scarcely be sold for $1.20 per acre. The average yield of corn per acre in Georgia is nine bushels, and yet labor is so cheap there that oven this yield is found to be a profitable crop. In Georgia the yield of an acre of sugar cane Is 192 gallons of -syrup, which sells at sixty-three cents per gallon, amounting to $180.56 per acre. The cost of produc ing is $53.76, leaving the net profit $76.80.

They use science to some practical purpose in India. A correspondent, describing the yearly resort of pilgrims to the sacred city of Allahabad, says that in October, when the crowds are enormous, thieves penetrate into the yelling mass, tear out the men’s nose-rings and the women’s ear-rings, and swallow them; when caught in the act, however, they are placed in the hands of the medical staff, emetics are administered, and the ejected ornaments are returned to their owners. A writer in the American Journal of Microtoopy gives the following directions for the treatment of a bee-sting, which are worth remembering: “ Onions, ammonia, ashes, beef and a hundred other remedies', have been prescribed; but we never found -them ofany Special value. If the poisonbag has not been emptied, remove it with a sharp knife, or, still better with a pair of tweezers so formed as to gasp the sting itself, without pressing on the bag. Common hair-tweezers are just the thing. This must, however, be done very quickly, or it will be of no use. Grasping the bag and sting with the fingers only squeezes the poison out of the bag and into the wound. After the bag has been removed, suck the wound strongly, and apply a poultice of moist mud. We have never found anything better.” A correspondent writes to the Drug gitU' Circular, describing a mode of treatment for lime in the eye. He says: "A negro came to me in intense agony, some unslaked lime having got into his eye. That the lime must be neutralized at all hazards I felt certain. I chose sulphuric: acid. I pul one drachm and a half of the diluted acid in a four-ounce graduate, filled it with water, and told him to wash his eye with the liquid. He did as he was told, and was relieved almost, immediately. Then I made rinse his eye with pure water, and after that I told him to anoint it with olive oil and to continue the application for some time. To-day he is almost well, and can see with his eye again. In another similar case no remedy was immediately applied, as a doctor had to be sent for from some little distance, and the negro lost his eye entirely.”