The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-24

ODDS AND ENDS.
Though the day has nearly passed,
Sit not down with folded hands,
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Labor while the hours shall last
While shall flow life's golden sands.
There are 610 Oranges in Arkansas,
and they are still growing.
The Texas PaLron, a new Grange pa
per, has made its appearance at
The Michigan Legislature has passed
law to incorporate the State and SUBJ
ordinate Oranges. F' 7'
phe 81. Louis County Grange, Mo-,
will shortly establish d Grange store and
depot at st. Louis. ''. e'
A Grange Fire and Lightning insur-
ance Company has been organized in
Grundy county, Iowa.
Open sessions OF the Grange when dis
cussions on farm matters are before
them are recommended. "t
Magnolian Grange is conducting CO.
operative store at California, Moniteau
county, Mo-, with success.
Many Southern Oranges are helping
each other, by supplying the means to
raise the present growing crop.
The Grange elevator at Red Oak, Ia,
will be enlarged this year. A new ele-
yator will also be built by the Patrons at
VIllisca.
Cass Grange, 919, Indiana, reports an
agency, for business purposes, with a
cash capital OF $4,000, and all prospects
favorable.
Under the new National Grange con-
stitntion more than one degree may be
conferred at one meeting, but not on the
same person. 90
The tobacco sales everywhere indicate
an advance OF from 30 cents to $1 per
hundred, with an active demand and
very small receipts.
The wheat crop is becoming more
promising throughout the South and
West. 1t will be about an average, from
present appearances.
The Secretary and Lady Assistant
Steward OF Relfs Bluff Grange, No. 40,
Arkansas, recently were married in the
Grange by the Chap. ain. '~ r"-'ff .""
The Oregon Granger makes the pre-
diction that in twenty years the export
OF prunes from, Oregon will be greater in
value than the exports of wheat.
Canada proposes the establishment
OF whlpping-posts, on the ground that
Imprisonment is not an effective punish
ment for hardened criminals.
The reports from Pennsylvania are
that the winter freezes ana late frosts
have SO injured the wheat crop that it is
now impossible to make over half an ay-
erage,
1ne grape and clover crops in Ken
lucky have not recovered from The
drought OF last year, and will he short
until seed sown this spring comes into
bearing.
Bartuoldi, the sculptor, is cutting "a
colossal figure of Lafayette, ON his way
TO America when a youth, which is to be
placed in Central Park, New York, by
The French residents OF that city.
Thomas Hill, a barber of Waterbury,
has become an object of envy. He
smoked one hundred cigars in thirteen
hours, and crowned his achievement
with a powerful game OF billiards.
The old Spanish Fort at st. Augustin,
Fla, it is said, s.Lo be converted into a
military prison for the reception OF a
number OF rebellious Indians from the
w estern reservations, non in custody OF
the United States Army.
Charles Johnston died at Montreal,
Canada, a few days since, from bleeding
at the nose. During the last faw weeks
he had been subject to occasional at
tacks of this kind, and the hemorrhage
became uncomfortable at last.
A correspondent Of the Boston journal
protests against the Punch and Judy
exhibition on the Common, because it
"cultivates the spirit of spiteiul feeling
and quarreling, demoralizes the minds
Others"
A gun factory in Upper Austria is
making 100000 rifles tor Germany. lit
has delivered 10000, and has received a
further order tor 10000. A Vienna firm
is reported to be executing German
order fer 81, QUO, 900 cartridges for delivery
in June.
An experimental farm station in North
Alabama has been selected, in order to
test, under the auspices of the Agricul-
tural College OF that State, in what ma
terial respect the soil is wanting, whether
in nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potash or
lime. Most OF the experiments are to be
made in cotton, but some are TO be made
with corn.
A Philadelphia firm is planting sew.
eral thousand acres Of land in Virginia
with seeds OF forest trees-black and
white walnut, hickory, chestnut, locust,
|etc. Unless America is to become a
desert in the next century, forest trees
must be cultivated more rapidly than
they are now destroyed.
A nourntul relic of the tragedies Of the
Commune is now in process OF demolition
in Paris; it is the house in the Rue des
Rosters, where Gems. Clement Thomas
and Lecomte We're shot. The authori-
ties seem resolved that all recollecti0ns
or mementoes of the Commune shall be
destroyed Or repressed.
Prot. Taylor, of the Agricultural Bu-
reau, advises the eWesterntarmers to get
rid OF the grasshoppers by eating them.
They are largely consumed in the East,
and the Indians of our plains find them
excellent eating. Gen. Sherman has tried
them, and says they are by no means to
be despised. There is a Scripture prece-
dent for putting the pests to this use.
John the Baptist lived on them with the
addition of little honey.
A Henderson county, Kentucky,
farmer finds plaster the best and most
economical fertilizer for tobacco. After
securing a stand he put about a dessert
spoonful on the bud OF each plant. I'm.
mediately after the first shower it as
sumed a rich, growing color, which it
held till maturity, Notwithstanding O
prolonged drought 'ensued. Before the
topping, however, he had as much more
applied to each plant-in all, about one
hundred pounds per acre. The land
upon which the experiment was made
was high, and exhausted years ago. The
crop was medium In size, and uniformly
of excellent quality.
Artemus Ward was one day lying upon
the sofa enjoying cigar in the little office
Of his publisher. in New York, when a