The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Four-button pancakes. are used an
griddles. II
Mutton is always at it's best flavor in
November.
Forty North Carolina counties now |
grow tobacco.
There are over three thousand stitches
in kid glove.
A big deposit of graphite lightens up
West Brattleboro, VI.
Connecticut has cribbed the biggest
corn crop in twenty years..
100000 are invested In the salmon
tisnerIes OF Columbia River.
The vanilla plant has a thick, waxy
leaf, and a canary-tinted flower.
There's a willow in Pemiscot County,
Mo-, that is one hundred feet tall.
Tue biggest sassafras tree on the globe
sheds its ARENA on Mississippi, Mo.
One of the chief hobbies OF flower
lovers at present is fern cultivation.
CRANKY, Mass, yenerates with pride
| an elm one hundred and five years old.
Ten thousa nd rosebuds scented Law
| ish New York dinner party on Tuesday.
Quantities of pineapple plants from
the Bahamas are being set out in
| Florida.
Ten carloads OF fine sheep from the
East arrived at Taylorsyllle, Texas, q
few days ago.
| European plantsmen have their plants
labeled with pottery tags, on which
their names are distinctly painted.
DR.. s. N. Harris, of Grass Valley,
! CAL, has u chestnut orchard. The trees
are Gully four years old, and are loaded
with irult.
A Bartlett pear raised near San Fran
| ciseo measures sixteen and a hall by
eighteen inches, and weighs two and
oAe-nalf pounds.
i Now bring cut your old pocket-kniyes
DR.. Name, OF JeSsamine, KY, mas one
which he claims is one hundred and sew
enteea years oldl
A hawk swooped down upon a
weather vane on a enurch spire in Char.
lotte, N. O., and was disgaSted to 1nd 1t
, only an imitation rooster.
i, Mrs. Geo. Walker, of Winooski. VT.
mas a white chrysanthemum which 9
short time s1aoe had nine hundred and
eighty-ni blossems and buds.
, The editor Of the Key West Fla Key
is happy. He has been preseated witt
/ a bouquet containing one hundred and
q ferty-JwV reses-sixteen varieties.
A few drops of nitric acid In glass o
sweetened water, couple OF times
daily, is an excellent remedy for hoArse
! ness in singers, speakers and readers.
A cheese factory in Canada has turned
}. out a splendid sample OF their skill
g nearly seven ieet in diameter, a ysrt
hign, Weighs three and hall tons, an,
u | II q knhl Ot milk
The shipment of turkeys from Zen
y tueky to Boston and other Easter
l. cities is becoming an important item Q
Il trade. MI. o. A. GilmaA, is slaughter
~ ing five hundred turkeyS per DAY i
Paris, TWO hundred in Lexington an
Two hundred in FlemingsbuIg.
le Celery can be kept for week or Ion ge
y by first rolling it up in brown paper
d then pin it up in towel and keep it i
a dark place, and keep as cool as poss
~ IbIe. Before preparing it for The tabl
IL piaee it In pan OF cold wafer, and lie
to It remain for an hour. II will make
O. crisp and cold.
te spots Of backing may be taken trol
CARPETS with mixture OF one ounce
l. pewa cred bOrax, dissolved in one quar-
n Of boiling water and small piece
OF seap, about the size of a waInut, cut hn
;. and dissolved with the bUrax; bettI
!" this up, and use to take spots from ca
pets or clothes.
Governor Vance. In recent addret
W at a fair in North Carolina, spoke OF tn
ay larger number of fairs that used TO
ir held in tAe state, as compared with u
/, present, and gave his opinion very dt
= eidedly that horse-raclng, three-car
TO monte and prize candy were The thre
si- things that have killed item.
O. The largest plow ever manufacture
Ds has Just been made at a factory 4
Stockton, Cal. 1t is designed for wol
'o in the TUES, and cuts u lurr0w thirt
On eight inches wide. The moldboard
,ir eight feet long from the point to the en-
n+ rne plow will be attacned TO sulk
= and will require a Team Of twelve stol
'r- animals to pull it,.
An extensive scald, which for twel'
hours gave agon,zlng pafh, when II
on msrsea IN a saturated solu ion OF sa
NJ was followed with surprising rell'
rhe abatement of pain was immediat
'rk aud IN iour hours DO th pain and swellil
RS. were gone. The next day the scald
re- hand differed from The other only by
,ov sligat swelling and redness.
=. Austin (Tex.) Gazette: We met
friend yesterday, from AN upper count
ch, who had Four hundred head Of hogs
,he was bringing down Tor feed. He G
). poets to obtain corn In! Bastrop Uount
!, Mt a Bit aud q nalf per bushel. Tue O
me hogs cost him, on an average, 70
Try head, aud he expects to make IN
are weigh one hundred and seventy-f
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