The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Hay is 81 a ton, anu wood IS a cord in
Kansas.
Silks are being smuggled into New
York in oatmeal kegs.
Keokuk contains free school for
teaching maidens to sew.
An exchange demands the restoration
OF the cOwhide OF the fathers.
Tomatoes are generally considered the
most wholesome of all vegetables.
Kansas is squshing out big loads of sor-
ghum, which rivals the Southern in quail
Ity.
An one hundred and eleven pound cat
fish was lately sawed into steaks at
Paducah, Ky.
One cent per bushel makes difference
| of $40 eco, 900 in the value oil the annual
crop oi corn in the United States.
New Orleans has trebled it's grain
shipments in the past month, twelve
vessels having sailed in that time.
The Kentucky farmers say the new
wheat crop is getting a fine start. The
acreage 10 estimated at double that Of
| last year.
+, 1t takes eight million five hundred
| thousand yards OF muslin annually, and
eight tons Of paper daily, TO make paper
| collars for the American public.
A Boston shop-keeper, whom the east
wind has driven out, has disposed OF his
business, and has started 10 ride to St.
| Augustine, Fla, in his carriage for his
| health.
/ Apples are a wholesome fruit, but in
! general they agree best with the stom-
1 ach when eaten roasted or boiled. The
more aromatic kinds OF apples are the
| dttest ior eating raw.
| Onions, garlic and shalots are all Of a
stimulating nature, by which they assist
| digestion and eXpel hatulency, They
are, however, most suitable TO persons
of cold phlegmatlc constitution.
| At New York florists Is a large
crab-appIe tree on whose topmost
branch blooms white rose. The rose
stem, which is growing from the apple
| branch, Is over two years old, and IL has
already Dloomed twice.
Tampa (Fla.) Tribune: Mr.. Simon
Bell, oil this office, together with some
friends, went fishing on last Saturday,
and had the good fortune to capture a
very large tarpon, weighing, perhaps,
TWO hundred pounds. The fish was very
lively, and gave the young men tow OF
| TWO miles.
| Raleigh IN. CO. Farmer and Mechan-
ic: The latest Intelligence from the
llmon hatchery at Henry's says the
fish are all out and doing tuely. Less
than one hundred eggs remain in the
troughs. And the day is coming fast
when those quarter OF million OF
salmon will furnish many poor man
his summers meat.
Col. Kings farm on the Rio Grande
consists OF one hundred and sixty
thousand acres, all fenced. He has been
growing in wealth. since the war with
Mexico, and now owns beside the lanG
twenty-five thousand horses, fifty thou
sand COWS, seventy thousand sheep
and thirty thousand mules. He employs
three hunAred Mexcans as herders
Most OF tue land has been fenced at az
enormous cost.
Young persons, when growing fast
require more food and at shorter inter
walls than those do who have attainel
maturity. Children under seven YEAR,
, of age usually need food every thre,
hours; a piece OF bread Will be health
lunch, and child seldom eats bread t.
2 excess. Those persons who eat lat
4 supper should not take breakfast til
one or two hours after rising. Those
who dine late, and eat nothing after
wards require breakfast soon after ris
I ing.
= The ceresin, q purified product troI
oZocerite, an impure FOSSIL wax, loun
chiefly at present near the large Goa
beds OF Bory slaW, in GalaLla, in the low
: lauus OF Lower Germany, aud at Gres
q ten, in Austria, promises TO prove FOL
midable rival 10 beeswaX, as it eau
| nrnInnAU larpplV This q
- though not yet thoroughly developed.
i has already brought GOWN the prices
VI The genuine article in the wholesal
- market OF New York. Ceresin can
imported and sold in this country 6
y from II to 25 cents per pound.
'' Ice did not become an article of con
e me ce until the present century; bl
g. Already in the United States alon
S3O, 600 900 are invested in the buslnes
OF gathering and selling it. Large shil
meuts OF ice are made 10 SOuLh Americ
and Asia, the European nations supply
ing themselves with ice from NorWa,
b There has been a remarkable increas
" in the use OF the article In the Unite
. States since 1910, when only 5O 900 tor
> of it were used. In the year 1876 til
II consumers bought $500 900 tons, an
n probably 100000 tons more were Gu
"a Beer brewers are the best customers
the ice companies, several using 3O,0'
u tons OF ice annually.
8 The Charlottesville (Va.l Chronic
y says: "a farmer living near Charlotte
o vile informs us of the curlol
operations Of those industrious little i
sects, the ants, i'll one OF his fields.
e fe W weeks ago he sowed timothy see
e. on the field with his wheat. The Wnea
has come up nicely, but examinatio
" shows that the igrass seed has been car
u fully gathered by the ants and deposite
o in piles at the entrances to their suDte
l. ranean abodes, with view to a plent
ful supply of food during the. winte
y All over The field are these little mouRt
e OF timothy seed, and great deal of
y has been carried across the public r0a
aud deposited in an adjoining field"
a AN OTTAWA COURT SCENE.
If The Ottawa (Canada) Free Press tel
10 this story: "Ihis morning during II