The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-23
OFF GENERAL INTEREST.

Soda takes the smart out Of sunburn
In Georgia the apple crop promises to
be an anu sually large one.
The remedy tor summer diseases, by
whatever name, is: Eat less.
The American Pomological Socie! y
meets ih''Baltimore in September.
One hall the horses sold by public auc-
ton III Denlson, Texas, are stolen prop
erty.
NV Workers are now shipping less
beef and more butter to England than
formerly.
Cnalking billiard cues and pushi o G
around ivory balls Will not make the
times any botter for you and your Iami.
y, young man.
What (says an exchange must be the
potato b lg's opimon OF lne humanity
Ithat goes around all day putting poison
on the Victuals OF humble insects?
An army of berry pickers is ON the
mountains of Lebanon county, Pa, and
the yield oI fruit is very large. TO many
in that region the money obtained from
berry picking is the chief means or sup
port.
Col. VIM. L. DeBorbon, of Beading,
Pa, has mocklng bird which shares
It's fool with the families of two robins
in neighboring Tree. phey fly up 70
The cage and receive their tyoI rom the
bird inside.
A serpent thirty teeJ long, with huge
DJuy, "carrying its head as high as that
Of a horse,' Is spending the Sumner in
Bradley County, Tenn. 1t was seen
there during the war. the East Ten.
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1t estimated that of the human family
$4,000, OO0 use coffee (or its substitutel J.
lea by 50O,0v0,0OO, opium by 4O0 0O0, QUO,
alcohol Dv 10000, 900, tobacco by 800
OOO UOo. Tnls, auds the Q lartegIy Jour
mai OF lheDriety, is how Lne Worlu drugs
lLself.
new grapevine parasite has been
ound IN SonOma COunty, Cal, and is
doing much harm. In many re, pc IT'S it
resembles the winged form OF the phyl-
4oXera, though the wings are snOrLer
tions of that pest.
The forty five cole works in the Cor
nellsvi,le Pa.) basin with three thou
sand five nunured and sevenLy-eIgh,
ovens, produce when running on iull
tlluC3 va lVlpJ SOho, d WSChI1
Yield Of one million three hundred anu
tM thousand six hundred bushels.
A prominent gentleman of Albany,
Ca, has a large quantity OF olive Gu :
Jings from California which are thriving
finely. Upon tue Georgia and Sou ID
Carolina seaDoard olives have been sue
cesslully cultivated, and many remem-
Der The sp4eudid grove and fruit Of DR..
Uhisolm, OF South Carolina, who was
very successful in raising the lruit pre-
yIous W the war.
The Nashville American calls atten-
ton 10 the mountain OF sllex near the
Cumberland River, and within three
miles of HartsyiIle, Tenn. For the mar.
ulacture OF glass 1T Is equal to any in the
United States. The American .adds
Even the white sand generally used by
painters here aud elsewhere South is
brought from the North, when IT lies at
our very doors and is ten times cheaper.
A mammoth tlsh known as a. granda-
core, measuring six leet and nalf in
length, and weighing one hundred AMI
twenty live pounds; was recently caught
in seine in The gulf near Galveston.
There is a conviction amOng all old fish
ermen thatit is impossib Bile to take one
Of these f5n with u nook and line, ow .ng
to- the great strength and activity which
they possess. Tney aIe known as the
samest tish that lnhabit the gulf.