The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The oyster fried in lard is never at its
best.
A love of horse flesh is born in all Ken
tuckians.
1t doesn't pay to gather the coarse va
rieties OF ierns.
A tuberose bulb must be two years old
before it Will bloom.
Omro, Wis, has subscr ibed SIC, 900 to
put up glass works.
Some one says it is fashionable to eat
ice-cream left-nanded.
The prospect of alarge ora nge crop in
Florida ts encouraging.
Recent rains have ended the long
drouth in Western Texas.
A velvet hat-brush is nice to curry-
comb the hair off peaches.
Plants with hard or glossy leaves are
the best for house culture.
A Mt. Washington (Ky.) man has n
ttty-acre field OF popcorn.
A little soda in the batter makes the
frled oysters more digestIbIe.
The Colorado beetle is a fashionable
model for scarf pin in London.
Mr.. Meyer, of Norristown, Pa. has a
castor oil plant thirteen feet tall.
cum cloth for carriage tops is now
made free from stickinvss and smell.
Canada's short-horn cattle are brino.
ing extraordinary prices in England.
The Alabama cotton fields resound
with the old plantation songs these
days.
The shipment of Delaware sweet no.
tatoes to new York is a growing busi-
ness.
At Newbern, N. &. they have a pear
tree which is in bloom for the third time
this season.
Gen. Richard Gano's fine stallion
"BlazeWood' died at Dallas, Texas, on
the lst inst.
A Waltham family has been some-
what poisoned by alum used to pre-.
serve the milk.
Last year one million four hundred
thousand cans OF oysters were put up
by one firm In Baltimore.
Flowers are the alphabet of angels,
whereby they write on Mills and fields
mysterious and sweet truths.
In Haywood, n. c., they exhibit tobac-
co leaves tnIrty-siX incaes long and
twenty and one-halt inches wide.
A bobtail cat In Hickman, KY, always
has bobtall kittens. This stal ement ia
vouched for by highly respectable cIti
zen.
The Dallas Commercial estimates the
wheat crop of Texas, this year, at seven
million and five hundred thousand
bushels.
Whatever else may be said against
tue Chinese, no one can truthlully say
that he ever saw one VINO parted his hair
in The middle.
The Illinois wheat crop is put at three
hundred million bushels, and that OF
Iowa at one hundred and seyenty-tiye
million bushels.
A scientific paper says: "Keep your
mirrors away from the SUM-" "And
from the daughters, also, if you cam"
adds family paper.
Miller & Lux, of California, it is esti-
mated, own seven hundred thousand
acres of land-at least tour hundred
thousand acres in one strip.
Indiana has three thousand nine hum
dred anu eighty-six miles OF railroad and
nye hundred and tlty-three miles OF
s slne-track; valuation more than $780,
100000.
The merchants OF Charleston, s, C..
are encouraged, the trade In the great
staples exhibiting marked and gratity-
ing increase. Cotton receipts this year
are the largest since the war.
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
states that The figures of the grain trade
OF That city last month furnish unmis-
takable evidence OF increased activity
and better times, and that the improve.
ment ls likely TO continue.
At the close of the first centennial of
the United States there were 25. III. 9O7
hogs in the whole country: 1883, 1880
were in or en- route to Cincinnati. and
the rest chiefly between St. Louis and
Chicago. This is less than tWo.thirds of
a hog to citizen.
Four pounds of beef lose one pound
by boiling, one pound five ounces by
roasting, and one pound three ounces by
baking. Four pounds OF mutton lose
fourteen ounces by boiling, one pound
SIX ounces by roasting, and one pound
four ounces by baking.
Miss Ell zabeth Anderson, who resides
on the Boston Pike, In Nelson County
Kentucky, in 1906 planted a seed which
sue has lived to see grow into a pecan
tree eighteen feet In circumference and
ninety teet high. 1t yields many bush.
els OF pecans every year. ...
The last number Of the London COURT
journal says; The Post.ofice officials
engaged in sorting the Cape mail on
discovered In their travel.
while between Plymouth
ana Bristol, live Colorado beetle,
winch they believe must have been
brought over in the American mail.
Mr.. Z. Morningstar, of Madison Town
ship, Morgan County, has begun the
work OF drying sweet corn. He has one
hundred acres Of the growing coru, and
has made extensive arrangements for
drying; mas a very large building filed
with machinery and drying apparatus.
One dryiug-pan is twelve feet wide by
SIXTY feet long.
The Sparta Wis. Herald says, In rela-
tion to the cranberry crop: Picking in
the marshes in this region has very gen
orally commenced, giving employment
TO many OF the able-uodieu QUITO work
ers around town, VINO are conspicuously
absent this week. The crop is, from all
accounts, good, and will yield fair
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