The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

New Brunswick.
Some California farmers are actually
raising figs to tatten hogs on.
Six dollars a barrel is about the figure
for cider in Southern Vermont.
Apple-cutting parties are the season.
| able method CT rural Irritation.
| Tough-A North Carolina gander
which is lILy.tiFe years OF age.
| The late Alvin Adams. of Boston, left
the finest Alderneys in the land.
Chestnuts are selling in Eastern
Pennsylvania at 81 30 per Dushel.
Kentucky's tobacco crop is nearly all
| housed 1t is an immense crop.
seventy-fve Poughkeepsie families
are to settle Cunning County, Neb.
a Tolland, Ct., man has patented
machine for crotchoting stocking tips.
La Los Angeles, CAL, they mash
grapes aud tead them out 10 the bees.
The San f ancisco Alta estimates that
the drought has Gust California SO, 900.
900.
A stalk of cotton with four hundred
bolls on it was eXhiblled at Augusta,
Ga.
The cotton crop Ceylon, this season.
Will not eXceeA twenty-five thousand
bales.
York County, Pa, boasts of sweet
potato that weighs i've pounds fourteen
| ounces.
A pecan nut tree it Escambia County,
Fla, produced iruit last season that
sold tor $40.
Burlington (Vt.) man raised q
sweet potato IN his garden that weighed
three and half pounds.
Mr.. LeWelling, OF st. Helena, Cal,
raised ten thousand pounds of almonds
tlls year, when brought 81 400.
At Chattanooga, Ga, there is one mule
th1rty-dVe years Of age, and another
twenty-nine. Next oldest mule!
Thomas Nj. Strange, OF Saline County,
Kansas, has ears OF corn, of whlc1
las 20 rows and 1,260 grams, the other %
rows and 1854 grains.
The sugar crop of Barbados this wear
Will aggregate forty thousand hogs
heads, against thirty-seYen thousand Tor
the preceding season.
Amos Boynton, of Plymouth, VT.
raised from one hill OF squashes $50
pounds. Two weighed spectively 81
and 81 pounds, and the rest over so
each.
There have lately been shipped from
Mechanic Fails, Maine, two carloads of
canned corn to San Francisco, one to
Sacramento, TWO TO ST. Louis, and seven
to Chicago.
Hams Will diminish in weight from the
time tley IeaYe the smOke-house until
consumed. An old ham consequently is
worth more than one in a gIeener state.
and sells at higher price.
Dr.. Brown, of Fredericton, N, B., has
some very tall corn. The sta k meas
ures fourteen feet, and The ears are
mammoth III size, each ear containing
five hundred and eighty six kernals and
upwards.
bunch OF grapes from the mammoth
grape vine of Santa Barbara Is on exhi-
bitl0n at San Francisco. 1t is three fee +
long aud six in circumference, ana
weighs one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
pounds.
A missing Kentucky juror was found
Oy me ouerln ten miles away, cuLLIns
tobacco. He said he lhoughL he would
save his crop from the threatened frost.
and let them put some oGAer fellow In
| his place.
A Frenchman, named Berthelot.
al. -
wEat was p man 'iu h,rni' ~ "ino lounu IN
Aries, France. which is mora HAN o"a
thousand six hundred wears old. A,
least the vessel CORRESPONDS with tho
ancient style,
A pernsvIva,io br+,o ,,, ..-
nia salr hv Gis."Iv'r, e.. ,I"Aei tesCs
Iumhlar. IL tho hiISe,a " td',' U'e Ill siaes
and tr0a Tram h,I,er iaotd ~, -, niou ~ cleal
tho snII rnnH. If IN TTn' NJ ,tnn ~ ~ u"ces
nrpspntsa m,1'tv'aI,nasr a. manu- ~
Sediment or Ihiow. scum tn iho io"IWe s,tr any
ho rniScts if w 'n0 S"A '"oe'
NJ. Fnurrat assarts that ,yoo,od ,,,
receiy4a more vain tnan ~. ra IaIt 80 'i,'
immodiate nrignnnrh"nL pina r""t t,,lt ~ AZ
altrart more meIsInra b"r dtinr = Inv tn ioioSts
Pine trees also rstain j., th,'ir ha,o to oS 70
more than half nj fha rain rhj,.h y, NtnI taIIS
ON lhpm whi'n Ieaiy traaa '" t,., W ni0n ,E iHins
Lhan haIt NJ Iba r.'intHGl ,, 70 INV nv
earth ImmsdiotoI,, " 1e"cn tne
olhce Tue c4Itle 0lsease made its ap-
pe"fance III Cleveland, ONO, and Victn-
ny, one IuhuFeu ana talrty-nlne COWS
n"'e lmo do uieu. l.; Inc general theory is that