The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-27
The califorhia Fruit TtaaA

tlon of foreign fruits in Eastern market,
amounts to $19,0O0,000 annually. ThI
grangers Of California have now organ
lzed company with view to securing
this trafile. The gfangers comprising
the company have now in San francisco
their own buildings, BANKS, Insurance.
once, land office and law department
lhey nave noWsin operation five agen.
cles IN the Eastern cities, and to these
the fruits are first consigne for ge neral
distribution to the several markets,
The company have made numerous ex.
perlments with a view to satisfactorily
settling the question Of sending fruits on
mere In refrigerator cars, and they are
| now trying the allegretto or more swiftly
moving process, which it is believed will
enable them to place the fruit fresh and
sweet III this and other eastern cities
lor sale at from 10 to 20 cents pound.
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A CANARY BIRDS DEATH.-rheI Troy
Times says: ga lady OF West Troy.
who spent portion of the summer at
round Lake, before her departure from
the city gave her pet canary to the ten.
der charge OF a neighbor. The warbler.
very highly valued, was sweet and
constant singer. 1t seemed to miss one
attention of its mistress during her ab
sence, and, though every attention was
paid to It, IL refused to sing. 1t pfned
continually and remained silent. FL.
nally the lady returned from Round
Lake. On reaching her home, the bird
manifested much pleasure, and tried,
but vainly, to sing. 1t seemed to be
very feeble, and in day or two died,
The lady firmly believes that her canary
was the victim of a broken heart"
BREAKFAsTs.-M Alexandra Dumas
Invariably begins the business of the
day by warming himself plate OF SOUP
when has been left out for him the night
before. He can thus get up at whatso-
ever hour he pleases, independently of
sefvants' Whirns, refresh himself, and
set to work till noon. Napoleon III took
coffee and milk for breakfast. ana The
Pope takes black coffee. Buffon's break
last consisted of crust of bread and
two glasses of wine. But the most re-
markable of all breakfasts was the GUS
tomary meal OF the Emperor Charles V
in the small hours. A servant would
awake His Majesty, and forthwith set
before him a chicken steWed in milk
The Emperor ate it, drumsticks and all,
and went 10 sleep again.
The transportation problem in it's
westward flight has at length reached
Oregon, and at the coming session OF the
Leg stature, the State VIII be asked to
moderate the charges OF the existing
railroads, to purchase the locks on the
Willame tie, and 10 press the opeafng of
with the East, either by
Bhe Northern Pacific Railroad, or BY
new line south 10 Winnemueca on tne
Central Pacific or TO the Union Pacific
in Utah. None Of these projects are
likely to be undertaken by the State, as
= 4 in 70
they indicate the popular anxieties.
"What under the sun are you rummag.
ing all the old clothes closets for?" tue
,ender wife asks her fond husband,
,hese bracing autumn mornings. "My
winter pantaloons and COATS" he re-
1lies, with suspicious look at the emp
" hooks. "On-why-yes-!et me see-v
and with guilty blood sufusing her love-
y face, she glides into the next room
md takes a china dog and pair of glass
vases and plaster shepherdess off the
and hides them behind the
,ota.
A lady, in describing to an irreverent
10Y an occurrence in which his father |
il cured, closed by remarking, II am |
orry to say that the thing ended by |
rour fathers losing his temper" "Dfd |
ather lose his temper~ exclaimed the |
'oung scapegrace; ''then l hope ,he'H |
lever find 1t again, for it was the worst |
emper ever heard ol.''
Scotch lady, who has taken house in
he Highlands, ner servants suddenly
living warning: whats the reason % |
his? Have you, not all You w4nt@
ood rooms, good fresh air and food, and
asy workW Spokes woman: "Yes.
nem; but--but there's ma a decent lad
within cry O. u.s."
NJ. A. Legel, many years private Sec
etary to the DUO 0Aumaie, says of
.ord Palmerston, in the Re0Ue des DeuC
HondeS, ''that he loved nothing but mis-
Uuntry, neither justice, liberty, human
w.. nor morality. His only aim was to |.
ring England to the 'front.'"
The obituary writer of the New Or
cans Times paid the following tribute |
D Il dead soldier: "Gen. JEFF Thompson /
} dead. At ST, Joseph; No., at 8
CLOCK last evening, that genial, whole
ouled, devil-may-care personifcation
eccentricity climbed the golden
tair." /
Tney ssrink" by machinery now in Lon
on. Anapparatus that is attached to /
ie roof is fastened 70 the shoulders OF
le rinkomaniacs, who are thus enabled T.
J disport themselves to their hearts,
Dntent without the possibility oil falling. l.
"Iguess dadwishes we'd all die and |,
0 to heaYen," said miser's son TO his
aternal parent. "Why SO r she asked.
pom recovering from her astonish ment,
on, cause Heavens SUCH cheap
lace to live in"
A late number of a German comic
ewspaper represents lady wearing a
At trimmed with bird, upon which u II
1t has jumped from nlghboring win
ow, mistaklng the stuffed bird for live
le.
II the girls don't quit wearing those +
'ominally wide belts, squeezing will
'on be one OF the lost arts. No man of
,hcate feeIings likes to embrace a
ather trunk, even if there is a woman
1t.
Even the New York cigar.btitt gather. +
8 complain of dull times. They say
9 stumps are fewer in quantity, poorer /
QUALITY. and mlcn Annrtar than In, tha' | r