Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1874 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Here are some figures on hog and hominy: The Journal of Agriculture says that " one bushel of corn makes I*ol pounds of pork,. and deduces the fact that when corn sells for 154 cents per bushel pork costs 1| cents per pound; when 17 cents, pork 2 cents —or when pork sells for 5 cents per pound it brings 45 cents per bushel on corn; when it sells for 4 cents it brings 32 cents on corn.” The applications for stamps for the prepayment of newspaper postage for the first month of the new r year already aggregate $500,000. The Postofiace officials, how-ever, consider that this sum exceeds the probable -monthlv demand. The estimate of the annual revenue from this source is $4,000,000. The department does not expect that any considerable amount of the newspaper business will go to the express companies. —lt has been estimated that of 10,000,000 women in America, 11,000,000 wear calico dresses, more or less; that .the spirit of economy has, during the past year, induced them to forego one dress apiecffirom their,outlay; that the average calico dress contains eleven yards, and that, consequently, there has been a loss to the trade by this retrenchment of 121,000.000 yards. This is nearly the entire product of all the mills of Massachusetts for a year.

—Only' two years ago all the resources of our 600 blast furnaces were taxed to their utmost to supply the, demand tor iron. The product of the furnaces for 1873 was estimated at 3,509,000 tons, while the estimated consumption of all kinds, of iron for the same year was placed by those supposed to be most thoroughly conversant with the business at 400.000 tons. This year the product of the blast furnaces will probably not exceecfrlaO,000 tons, if as much. The only way to account for this state of affairs is to frankly acknowledge that the consumption of 1873 was largely overestimated. A fair estimate would probably "have placed it at 300:000 instead ,of 400,000 tons. —A' T. Times. : ■ ,

—Cotton manufacturing -has increased in the I sited States nearly 38 per cent, in the last tour years. Toe huge, drastic, griping, sickening pills, constructed of erode, coarse and bulky ingredients, are fast being superseded by Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, or SugarCoated, <J meentrated Root and Herbal Juice, Anti-Biliuu- Granules—the “Little Giant" Cathartic or \\fuhu)/t in /‘anv Bhvsie. Modern Chemical Science enables Da Pierce to extract Horn the juices of the molt valuable roots and herbs their active mediHtial principles, which, when wprked into ii^tUu,Pellets or Granules, *<ane!ii Uirr/er than maslard seed , render each little Pellet as active and power--fuLaa-a large pill, while they are much more palatable ami pTeasanf in effect. Dr. Ika A. Tuayzu, of Bacousburg, Ohio, writo: “I regard your Pellets as the best remedy for the conditions for which you prescribe them of anything I have ever used, so mild and certain in effect, and leaving the bowels in an excellent condition. It seems to me they must take the place of all other cathartic pills and medicines.” Lyon A Mac-Omber, druggists, Vermillion, D. T., say: “ We/think they are going to sell like hot cakes as soon as people get acquainted with them, and will spoil the pill trade, as those that have used them like them much better than large pills.” The Latest TT.iotPii of Temperance. —We congratulate the temperance -world on the sticeessievervM T here attending the use ot Vinegar Bitters. Cert 1 inly no preparation containing alcohol las 'accomplished' such cures of hiala--hum fever, biliousness, dyspepsia, rheu- . maH am. impr complaints.' constipation, and general debility as we hear of front all quarters as the results of this famous vegetable specific, No true philanthropist will regret to see spirituous liquors expelled from medical use if they can 0;: safely dispensed with; aud that they en notueeessary in anr ease of siciness, whatever its character, appears at last to have been demonstrated. If public opinion is capable of making any impression upon tlie minds of the Faculty they will ere long introduce the most popular of modern medicines into the hospitals, and prescribe it in their pracice. The mi 11 ions have given the article 1 fair trialg it has more than answered their expectations, and no theoretical opposition can shake their faith in it. 13