The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mignonettes are aDloOm in Alabama.
Remember your poor neighbor-you
who have plenty.
Sparrows are building their nests
afresh down East.
There is not a national bank in the
State of Mississippi.
The hot air and gaslight OF ballroom
blight tropical plants.
Inhaling the dust ofipecacuanha gives
some people the asthma.
Sugar plums are good deal cheaper
than they were last year.
Some new baskets of flowers are clo-
yer leaf shape, with handles.
The late storm washed up lots Of dog
sharks along the Atlantic beach.
The South wants a steamb at canal
from the Tennessee to tidewaLer.
"lf nothing happens, more than what
occurs," Is d cautious new saying.
Thousands of Kentucky rabbits are
stark in death from poison berries.
"R0ast turkey and sausage" are q ia
VoIite Christmas Wand in London.
Lilacs are shedding their fragrant
snitfs on State-house lawn, Boston.
AT Lebanon, Pa, poultry was selling
as low as cents d pound on the 15tn.
A tish-trap in Jackson. Ga, roped in
fifty pounds of suckers the otner day.
Two thousand bushels of chestnuts
have beeu shipped from JohusLuwn,
Pennsylvania, thls year.
Dante used to wear a long robe that
tralled Oh the ground, but he never
kicked it, grabbed at 1t, or held it up.
When first girl begins to take an in.
ter, 81 IN young mans cravat, it is a
sign she does not love him as q sister.
There are too many men trying tt
solve the problem OF how to live without
work, anu this is what keeps up hard
| times.
| 1t is estimated that the raising and
| manufacture OF tobacco i'll this country
furnishes employment to more than one
million persons.
A Big Bend correspondents of the
| Macksvlile reXas) Bulletin states thai
the planters of that locality will aban
"on cotton next year and cultivate
sugar-cane.
The oil well In MoOdy's Gulch, SAINTS
Cruz (Cal) Mountains, is down fvt
hundred ana forty ieet in solid sand rock
green or amber oil per day, and the
quantity is steadily increasing.
The President of the South Caroline
State FAIR Association sold his entir
crop of bread corn to General W. q
LIE Due, United States Commissioner o
Agriculture. This corn will be distr b
uLed throughout the United States fo
seed.
The late address of the Sugar
planters Association OF LOuisIan
shows that IN 1862 The State produce
tOrty-Iour per Ceut. of ali the sugar con
sumed in the United .ates, wnlle tha
proportion Is now reduced to lively
per cent.
Spikenard root sliced and bruised, an
then stepped in a teapot Containing equ
parts of water anu spirits, and the vapD
inhaled, when sufficiently cooled, WI
relieve the soreness and hOdrseness [
the throat or lungs, when Arising lrOI
a cough or cold.
The Bowling Green Democrat say
Dr.. S. w. COOmOs, FISH Commissioner
will be IN receipt, i'll about TWO week,
OF one hundred and eignty thousanI
more California salmon mInnoHs, wit
, which delicious fish it is proposed 1
2 stock our streams and rivers.
. In the vicinity of Rio Grande CITY
| Texas, there has been no ram sine
) April, with the exception of one Sigh
; shower. La conse quence there is II
pasturage, and The suffering stock i
only KEEP alive by Ieeding Oh the prlckl
pear, lrom which the thorns are frs
cut.
At public exhibition Of strength i
) the Assembly Room at W WlgtOwn, i
Scotland, one Wilson lifted the enol
nous weight of eleven hundred pounds
He also lifted with his teeth, and will
out the aid of his hands, from the foo
eight 56, on strong board. The weight
did not touch his body.
The annual report of the State Fis
Commissioners SHOWS the salmon tionel
, les Of Name to be very productive tn
past year, the ylell of the Penob5ct
RIVER being greater than for the pae
+ twenty-five Years. Twenty-Five pond
nave been stocked with black bass, an
) the demand is steadily increasing.
The continuance of the mild weathe
< of course reVives the familiar discussi0
whether it is healthy or not. The Gu
rent impression, founded perhaps moi
than on anything else upon the old Ri
glish proVerb, ga green Christine
y makes fat church-yard," is eYldentl
= uuiav0rable, buL observation and statl
Jlcs, SO lar as they are available, lead
0 the opposite conclusion.