The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Now is good time 10 luy in your snow
snovels.
Nothing but good lie can tit men for
q better one.
Crocus pots are of the bee hive and
hedge hog shape.
Mutton is never of better favor than
it is In November.
Money is well spent in purchasing
tranquility OF mind.
Hyacinths should be poLted this
month; also mInce meat.
Many apple trees near Hartford are
still AS green as i'll summer.
Cuban japouicss have gold fieoked
leaves and bear red berries.
Hard wood Is too dear in Massachu-
sets for general use as iueI.
Among tue bleak Icelanders rancid
butter Is esteemed uelicacy.
Timothy grass sprouting from the
pores Ol sponge is a curiosity.
George Meyer, OF Orwigsburg, Pa, has
raised celery htLy-slX inches tall.
Spanish sweet potatoes, raised in
Maryland, are very fine when baked.
A shower of rain and grasshoppers
leli III orange, 5. e., tue night of the Is
Atlanta is getting cotton at the rate of
eighteen hundred bales day. The
sidewalks are fult, and the warehouses
present busy scene.
Lyon County. KY, has produced n
sweet potato that weigns more than
eleven pounds, aud IA pumpkin five feet
HVe inches III clrCumt erenc.
Mr.. Cochrane, of Snerbrooke. Can
has sold ano.ner Of his Duchess short.
| morn helIers, Ten months old, Tor $I2 600.
| 10 Col. Cdnntn, OF Burlington.
Dried fruit must he kept in tight bar
els, Jokes or bags, III OIaer to eXclud+
Insects. Stout paper bags, in when
| hour Is purchased are excellent for the
pa. pose.
Com ort In COWS promotes secretion
! III max, hence groups OF trees in a uas.
| ture are invaluable during not weather,
ahu an ehLlfe lack OF trees should be
supplemented By artificial shelter OF
| : some klnu.
Tue New Iberia (Louisiana) Sugar
Bowl gives many details OF interest con.
| cernng The cOnoitlon and PROSPECTS ot
| the sugar places III Iberia Z irish. W hite
men rs successful. lab1regs figure promi-
| nentiy in these reports.
The Paducah (Ky.) News SAYS the
| tobacco season Tor 1861 closed Weu-
nesday. Durng the year tue number OF
| nOgsHedds so,d AZ ali our Warehouses
| anounted to l2,57l; receipts, Il G5S; Of
!erlhSs, 10 lbs, aud rtjectlOns, 1861.
A number of stone axes, perfect in
orm and eXceIlenLly pr, served, nave
-
Joseph, MO. They are supposed TO be
| reliCs Ul the StoHe age. a brick wal
mas been unc0Vet ed al quite depth, The
| bricks being made o. clay and syme kiuC
| Ol straw.
Paint to last long should be put or
early IN winter or spring, Whea ii is co.C
ana when no dust 10 flying. Paint put
ON III coId weather forms II body or coal
| upon lhe surface OF tAe wood that Ue
comes nara and reSISts wea her, or ever
an edge tool, almost like slate.
A sea-cow, caught in Iudian River
| Florida, Is on exhibition at the Mont
| gomery far. 1t 10 nine feet eight incue,
| IN length, ana measures six feet arouul
The uouy, ana Is SO gentle that it Ueari
hahallhK Whlle eating It's iood, wltnou
being the least disturbed thereby.
| Speaking of Il fine thoroughbred cal
owned by Capt. Motl, and paced on li
island slock farm, the Galveston New,
says; lac sire, Anderson Lane. WA,
purchased rom Baldwin q Peurcu, OF
Maysvilie, ky. He is magnificent ami
maj, Weighing over $500 IDS, took tn,
hrst pleulum AT the New Oiieans lair i,
1874, and at The Aus in fairs i'll 1875 an,
1876.
Inc Atlanta Constitution says: Fiy
bales Vt cotton To tine acre. JI9 hu.baI
OF corn to tn. acre, 80 bushels OF wA1aI
10 me acre, 10 tons Of nay to the acre
III DGshsIs oi oats 10 the acre, 453 bush
els ol potatoes To the acre, G94 gallons o
syrup 10 the acre, l l,552 bus els of in,
ups to tie acr D, $7lO worth of onion
from IA" acre, 100 bushels Of rice to tn
acre, $j3o clear money made upon th
I"rhl, Wy pOy under twenty years 0
age.
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