The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Large lots OF Canada barley are being
shipped to E"ie, Pa.
The hop crop of this country promises
a good yield this year.
ST. Louis proposes the moderate tax
of S5O year on lawyers.
Five cents pound is all they pay for
prime sirloin at Salem, N. G.
Farmers wives will pick their winter
apples in the iull Of the moon.
A nine-huUdred-pound turtle has been
caught off Cape Elizabeth, Me.
Wheat west of Omaha averages about
~ cents per Dushel TO the farmers.
Asphaltum may be used to advantage
in staining in imitation of hard woods.
Western MASSACHUSETTS grangers are
industriously cremating potato-bug
eggs.
A good dryer for paints is made by
grinding or dissolying a small quantity
OF sugar OF lead in Iinseed uil.
There are siXty-e ght different sewing
machine stitches, and hundred anG
sixty-eight different ways OF lying about
them.
The London Times, in an article on
the tsheIy question, argues that another
treaty is required 10 SETTLE the disputed
points.
California hop-growers are employing
boys and girls as pickers in the place Of
Chinese, and report that the experiment
is success.
Pretty heavy frosts have fallen over
the State of Ken ucky generally, but
owing TO extreme dryness, no greal
harm was done.
A cement made of glycerine and lith.
erage hardens rapidly, and makes a
durable cement upon iron or sLone. II
is lnsoluble, and is not attacked by
acids.
Windows adorned with flowers and
plants, of different kinds, alwa avs attract
the attention Of the passer-by and give
evidence OF the taste and culture Of then
owners.
While the farmers of central Ken.
lucky are pining for market for their
big crop of barley, Henderson brew.
cry buys hlteen thousand bushels from
Chicago.
The worms have eaten two succes sive
crops OF leaves on the maple trees OF
Kansas this season, and This Is the third
or fourth year that the same thing has
occurred.
Ben. Thomas shipped a carload of
mules from Shelbyyllle, Kentucky, to
New Orleans Monday. Joe Bell shipped
at the same time Car OF horses and
mules to savannah.
DR.. Caspari states in a German medi-
cal journal that he has treated success
fully more than forty cases Of dIpnthe-
ria by using locally with the spray and
Drush) slightly diluoed cItric acid.
Mr.. James Merrill, Of Lee, Me-, states
that there were picked on Monday from
his ia IN in that place fourteen or fifteen
ripe strawberries. This is something
wonderful for the 1st day OF OctoDcr.
A Neceuah, Wis, cranberry firm has
about five hundred IAdians employed
picking berries. They are good berry
pickers, but the farmers in that section
complain terribly about raids on their
potato and corn fields.
Rev. DR.. Taylor, of the Tabernacle
church, New York, lately eXhorted his
church members 10 take their religion
with them TO the country, and not to be
like the little boy who SAID, tGOod-by
God; Pm going to New Jersey for a
month"
On this Sth day Of October we have
had placed Oh our desk, by Mr.. ii. n
Spratt, OF Carmel, Me-, pint OF wild
raspberrles as fresh, plump, ripe and
sweet as were ever gathered in July
What wonderful season. Bangor
Commercial.
To make soft solder drops-Melt the
solder and pour it III Il steady stream OF
an, 4 nj n IL JIa
rom a height Of two or three inches,
into cold water. Take care that The
solder, al the time OF polring. Is no not.
ter than is just necessary Tor fluIdIty.
Another Big Wheat Story-Tne Vance.
burg (Ky.) Courier has seen head OF
African wheat III bloom that is fourteen
inches long and looked as if it would
have made a pint OF grain. 1t grows
ten feet high, produces two crops from
The same STALK, and viii yield one hun
ured and fifty bushels to the acre. The
Courier thinks it will reVolutionIZe the
wheat product Of this country.
The Tennessee Commiss ioner of Agri.
culture, in lale report, says the corn
crop was greatly benefited by the rains S
which prevailed throughout the Stale
during he latter part OF August and Isl
OF September. The estimates, however,
made by my correspondents have been
reduced 4 per cent, being reported iol
the August report at 80 for the State
While in the present report 81 is given.
West Tennessee has the best crop; Eas
Tennessee the worst.
The report OF the tobacco merchants
of the crop oil 1877 IN Connecticut is very
favorable. Iue plant went into The
sheds in excellent condition, and a sat
stactory curing OF the crop depends
now entirely upon the weather. ShOulC
The present drUutl Continue, speedy
cure will be the result, and viii cause
considerable damage. La the Connect
cut Valley the yIeld in weight is tht
largest ever known, aud tue quality. a.
general thing, is very good.-LNev
England Farmer.
TO find the contents of cylinder boil
ers multiply the area OF the head il
inches and divide the product by 1928
t9e quotient Will be the number Of cubl'
feet Of water the boiler will contain
Example: Diameter Of head, 36 inches
area Of head, 1Ol7.S7 inches; length o
boiler, 20 feet or 240 inches. Now mul
lply 1917 81 by 24O, and the product vii
be "A AIS $50; diVtue this by 17ZS and tn
| result VIII be 14l 81 cubic. feet, whlcl
Will be the contents Of the shell.
| Nine thousand feet per minute, that j
nearly two miles per minute, Ior the rim
OF circular saw to travel, may be lait
down as Il rule. For example,: A saV
IL inches IN diameter, feet around th
rim, 8 900 revolution, "a inches in diam
eter, or b feet around the rim, | 800 reVC