Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1875 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—Every pound of cochineal contains 70,000 insects boiled to death. —Of the leather inspected at Philadelphia last year, amounting to 546,949 sides, only 40,661 were foreign. —The! San Francisco Alta tells of one single vine that produced the enormous weight of 12,000 pounds of fruit in one season. —The Mont Cenis tunnel cost about $975 a yard, and at the same rate the proposed tunnel under the English Channel would cost about $36,036,000. —According to late statistics, Australia and Tasmania have about 50,000,000 sheep and more than 5,500,000 head of cattle; and New Zealand cattle exceed half a million, and her sheep 12,000,000. —After receiving $20,000 for their services, spending SB,OOO for telegrams, and large sums for the distribution of 700,000 circulars, the detectives engaged to discover Charlie Ross have found a clew—a straw hat worth fifty cents. -»Tbe lot on which the Drexel Building in New York stands, at the corner of Wall an* Broad streets, was sold at the rate of $14,000,000 per acre, being the largest price ever known in the history of American real estate. —Western Michigan has 900,000 peach trees, 140,000 pear trees, 30,000 plum trees, 25,000 cherry trees, 170,000 apple trees, 10,000 quince trees and 180,000 grape vines. A large area is also de, voted to the culture of berries. —The average amount of ash in dried Virginia tobacco, as determined by Messrs. Irby and Cabell, from six specimens, is 11.64 per cent., that of European tobacco being 16.82 per cent., that of Connecticut and Massachusetts tobacco 16.56 per cent., and that of Kentucky tobacco 12.83 per cent. —Kansas has fourteen daily papers five tri-weekly, seven semi-weekly and eighty-six weeklies, but this number has been increased since the census has been taken. monthlies, etc., the total is 122 publications. —The new Encyclopedia Britannicahas these appalling assertions: “If the natural resources of America were fully developed it would afford sustenance to 3.600,000,000 inhabitants —a number nearly five times as great as the entire mass of human beings now- existing on the globe. And, what is even more surprising, it is not more improbable that this prodigious population will be in existence within three, or at most four, centuries. —The whole number of railroads in Rhode Island is fourteen; capital stock, $19,371,707.47; total indebtedness, $13,051,810.64; total receipts, $7,784,100.06; total expenses, $5,558,350.32; whole number of passengers during the year, 19,q 57,038 ; whole number of tons of merchandise during the year, 2,584,124; whole number of locomotives, 203; whole number of cars, 4,217; total miles in the State, 235 1-10. —The thrush is said to work from 2:30 in the morning until 9:30 in ihe evening, or nineteen hours. During this time he feeds his young 206 times. Blackbirds work seve'nteen hour?. The male feeds the young forty-four times and the female fifty-five times per day. The industrious titmouse manages to spread 417 meals per day before its voracious offspring. According to one naturalist, their food chiefly consists of caterpillars. These statements and a hundred more quite as curious were made in an eloquent plea for . a law to protect small birds from being snared or shot. The test of time and experience is the only sure guide in selecting an instrument. It is of little consequence that a man makes one or two fine pianos or organs for a fair and intrigues successfully for a prize. It is the quality of everyday manufacture that concerns the buyer —not what exceptional and costly instruments have been specially made for exhibition. The Smith American Organs are of high and uniform excellence, and are the best for actual use, having been tried andproved for twentyfive years.

Etagere Cabinet Organs. —The etagere, as the French call that elegant article of furniture furnished with a number of small shelves, designed for various small ornamental articles, has become a necessity in every fashionable drawingroom. The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. are now manufacturing a combination of the etagere and cabinet organ, very-rich and beautiful, which they furnish for the price of an organ without the etagere.

“ Here’s another doughmestic difficulty,” said a Brooklyn woman as she found her bread heavy. Vinegar Bitters.—Dr. J. Walker, a regular practicing physician of California, has conferred a priceless boon upon mankind by the introduction of a “ Bitters” compounded from herbs exclusively, which may be truly said to be supg<seding all others, and is becoming* a bitter dose indeed for the charlatans and quacks, on account of its immense sale and universal popularity. Not only age these Vinegar Bitters, as he calls them, an invaluable tonic and alterative, but they ate acknowledged as a standard Medicine, and the astonishing rapidity with which they cure diseases hitherto declared incurable seems almost incredible. having been carefully tested they are kept on hand in thousands of households and used for any and every form of disease, many relj ing upon them in preference to the most celebrated physicians. They have become a recognized “ Family Remedy,” and properly so. _ 25 Wilhoit j cvuk and Agve Tonic.—This medicine is used by construction companies for the benefit of their employes, when engaged in malarial districts. ’J 'be highest testimonials have been given by contractors and by the Presidents of some of the leading railroads in the South and West. When men are congregated in large numbers in the neighborhood of swamps and rivers. Wilhoft’s Tonic will prove a valuable addition to the stock of medicines, and will amply reward the company in the saving of time, labor and money. We recommend it to all. Wheelock, Finlay «fc Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For Sale by' all Druggists. Important Invention.—“ln less than ten years there will not be a metal truss in use,” was the prediction of one of our most eminent physicians on examining the Elastic Truss of the Elastic Truss Co., 683 Broadway, N. Y. The extensive adoption of these unequaled in'trumeuts, which certainly cure rupture without torture, will make them the, only trn.-ses used in much less than ten years. We advise, all Lifferers to send to the above company for descriptive circulars, as these trusses are sent to all parts of ttu country by mail. ■ Bu rnett’s FLORAL H an d-Book. See Adt't.