The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-08
OF SPECIAL INTEREST.

| oregon raises peaches weighing over a
pouod.
A grand potato pairing is to liven an
Iowa Fair.
New cypress barrels fetch 81 apiece in
| Troy, Ala.
A fruit-drving factory is ANEW thing
at Seaford, Delaware.
Beaverialls, Pa, factory is making
axes to 20 to BraziI.
The leaves OF eucalyptus yield ne W
| Ijqu'r, "eucalypsinthe."
Cambridge (Md } inventor has de-
VIaed peAch-seeder."
The South Jersey apple trees are fair
| ly bent double with fruit.
A big demand for our apples is expect
ed from London this year.
Texas alone will contribute seven hun
| dred thousand bales or cotton.
| North Anson, Me-, has something new
"a fiVeted moccasin factory.
.Fodder-pulls by day and dances by
night reereate rural Georgia,
some Salem, N. j., acres yield four
| huHured baskets of waite potatoes.
Hog cholera RACES in Southern Mtcbi-
gan, and is doubling W. Iowa's slock.
\ stable boy at Eldora. Ia. profits
Sloo,0oO Oy an English uncle's demise,
| olNty-one sncep beneath one Culifor-
MA tree were Killed by one fash OF light
ming.
-Four thousand barrels of Irish moss
nave Deen culled at Sc!tuate, Mass, this
| year.
! There are no less than two thousand
| 4
Americas apples.
lLere are not enough lahOrers in Mis-
elssIlpl to harvest the cotton crop ana
| prepare it Tor market.
IN. /. Crews, of johnson Township.
! md, had tive acres OF wheat that yielu-
; eu loTty-hve bushels to the acre.
Nav select your big cuc,umbers.
sgut shes, pumpkin, melons, beets. etc.
lor the faIrs. Bring no stuuted or suabbY
| specimens.
A man in Nelson County, Ey.. has
actually married his sleI-granumOther.
This is SAID TO be the first case on REGARD
III tnls country.
A be" rec near Waldo, Florida, coll
tanned eight feet IN length OF so. ID comb
Inc h"!to" ranging from SIX 10 nine
inches III diameter.
An Indiana farmer SAYS he will have
yield OF 10000 bushels of corn utf 700
acres. Another rGpOrts 10 busaels OF
wheat to he acre.
One PaWtucket Or. L. firm makes tir-
leeh 'h"usahu too -cueeLs or BOYS aunu.
a'ly, anu furnishes JOBS TO about the
same number OF surgeons.
Fancy wooden jardinieres and flower
ooAIs, ndue OF carved wood to initiate
MlioW-Ware, ana lined with zluc. an.
peal to the lovers OF mouse plants.
SIX quarts OF SCOT to hOgshead of
water makes serVlceable manure for
Watering forced pi.uts, as we'll AZ lor
most bulbs. tDwe,ing plants and surubs,
i american Garden,
Hee-keepers should use eyery means
posslDle 10 destroy The bee moth, Thrv
are lnsldlous i'll their work, the eggs
Oelhg aid i'll creVIces. Walun tor lhnm
constantly. L. Will pay.
Berlin, Wis, VIII have from twelve
lhousahd to fifteen thousand barrels Of
cra"4eFrleS, and some Of Sacktt;. .
marshes are dong well and will Weld
several thousand barrels.
1t is estimated that there are two
.hOusdnu tUur hundred disorders tO
winch The human frame is Liable. When
" man Is Ialu up WlLh the rheumatism
ne Is apt to think that the entire uulnupr
mas struck him IN concert.
Texas is so anxious to secure EN- gra-
ZION tuat she is virtually giving away
nef pubIIc LANDS. Ine head Of a family
can get one hundred ana sixty acres for
lhe expense Of the survey and pAlenl.
winch Is altogether about SIS.
The Haleana honeysuckle is a ram
pant grower, cOYer!Ag screens, piazzns
&C., III short lime. 1t blooms freely
six or eight weeks, flowers alternating
oel"eeh hILe and yellow, ana throw :
out a delightful fragrance.
A new white violet, says the Gard
heTs Chronicle, is appearing in Epqlisn
ADVERTISEMENTS. l is calIed Vlolo
ouoiata ava 4laSIaAteSoimA piena, A
soou 'nInS 10 KNOW II one las Ime TO
olue' VIolet Win 50 long name.
Late lmportations of china and glass
'ol, ,eC sets nave funeral aspect. Tall.
c. coW"-'4aped bottles Of black CHINA, de,
splIe gay ofnamentatIon (says a New
DIX paper }, are all TOO suggestive OF
mOu InI III scenes Tor toilet trIulIrts
len million dollars are invested in
'ahu, greenhouses, and stock connected
with the Wholesale florists business il,
'-~''A'S " A'Sh L VI lUEIS al e
,Oftl -lVe acres of lighthouses. Al Union
HiIl, New Jersey, there are abou. twenty
acres unCer glass for the cultivation Of
tloNers for the New YORK market.
The Portland (Oregon) Commercial
Reporter makes the salmon caught this
car amount TO three hundred and sew.
enty-Iour thousand cases against four
hundred twenty eight thousand last sea-
son. one of the largest establishments
mas failed. The salmon catch of the en-
tire coast Will equal that of last year,
The Providence Star says: phe recent
starting up OF the tool compdnJ's works
together with several large jewelrv
manufacturing establishment s, has made
the streets look comparatively deserted,
IL is estimated that at least three thou
sand more OF our citizens are at WORK
now than there were three weeks ago.
George Paul, at ROsarian meeting in
London, a Short time since, objected to
roses on their own roots. He preferred
70 bud low and plant deeply, by which
he thinks a greater impetus is derived
from the roots Of the stock, and further
support and permanency from the
natural roots aLterward produced from
the buuded portion.
The Petersburg Va. paper chronicles
the advent OF new tobacco bug,
Wherever the bills perforate the leaf, it
ut once willis and dies. These bugs are
about the sIze oil an ordinary chipch-buR,
and have small bill similar to tnat seen