Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03

INDUSTRIAL. STATISTICAL AND
TECHNICAL.

THE Arkansas Valley Salt Company
has Just made its first barrel OF salt.
AMERICAN beef is now delivered in the
new Smithfeld Market, London, in first.
class order at cost of twelve cents a
pound
CALIFORNIA has upward Of 46, 900, 0OO
acres Of unsurveyed land, 5000, 900 acres
Of which could scarcely be sold for 81 20
per acre.
THE average yield of corn per acre in
Georgia is nine bushels, and yet labor is
so cheap there that even 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 $130.56 per acre. The cost of produc-
ing is $53.76, leaving the net profit
$76.80.
SUPERINTENDENT j OHNsON reports 221,-
ATT scholars in Maine in 1854 decrease
Of 5000 from 1874. The average wages
Of male teachers last year was $36. So per
month. There was slight increase in
teachers wages from 1874.
THE recent census shows population
in New Orleans, as follows: Males, Co.
682; females, 106,757; white, 145, 721 ;
colored, 81 ,647; Indian and Chinese, H..
Number Of native born, 100, 1871: num-
Der of foreign born, 1912 Total popu-
latlon, 203, 439 Can read and write, (White)
104 400; (colored) 1865 Cannot read
and write (white) 35, 318; (colored) 81, 708.
Number of persons over eighteen years
who have had the yellow fever, 25,071.
Births in 1874, $3.50.
They use science to some practical pur-
pose in India. A correspondent, describ-
ing 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 mems nose-rings and the
women's earrings, and swallow them :;
when caught in the act, however, they
are placed in the hands of the medical
staff, emetics are administered, and the
elected ornaments are returned to their
owners
A WRITER in the american Journal of
microscopy gives the following directions
for the treatment of bee-sting, which are
worth remembering: g Onions, ammonia,
ashes, beef and hundred other remedies.
have been prescribed; but we never found
them Of any special value If the poison
bag has not been emptied, remove it with
a sharp knife, or, still better with a ps.tr
Of tweezers so formed as to gasp the sting
itself, without pressing on the bag. Com
mon hair-tweezers are just the thing.
This must, however, be done very quick
~, or 1t 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 poultice Of moist mud. We have
never found anything better"
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Drug
g1StS' Circular, describing a mode of treat
ment tor lime in the eve. He saws: "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 felt certain. I chose sulphuric
acid. put one drachm and half of the
diluted acid in four-ounce graduate,
tilled II with water, and told him to wash
his eye withsthe liquid. He did as hewas
told, and was relieved almost immediate
". Then | made rinse his eye with pure
water, and after that | told him to anoint
It with olive oil and to continue the ap-
plication for some time. To-day he is al
most we'll, 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 negrC lost his eye entirely"