The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DouOIe Jumps are SettlhS hole PoFu-
lar every year.
Lower Florida is goiGg largely into
banana culture.
The crocus will flower nicely in the
house in winter.
Richmond, Va, distributes meal once
Il week TO her poor.
Good horses are getting extremely
scarce i'll Vermont.
A fatal cattle distemper is prevailing
il New York Stale.
Potatoes are plenty in Easton at
quarter dollar a bushel.
Tu.ips don't need very rich soil !;
plant them in October.
American grapes have been success
ia ly exported to England.
Lower Mississippi aud Louisiana grow
large quantities of oranges.
They raise thirty bushels OF rye to the
acre i'll Jackson County, Or.
The increase OF strawberry cultiYa-
tion around Norfolk beats all.
There is an extraordinary demand for
agricultural land in Minnesota.
NarIegated autumn leaves are PEN
siyety hawkel along Broadway.
Dates are being grown with good sue
cess on the lower Georgia coast.
Out IN Eureka, Nevada, strawberries
are retaling at iour bits a pound,
new bug is biting the cranberrie
ana letting their sour all run out.
The foreign markets for our fruits are
IS we'll established as for our wheat,
A pattern of wall paper that wouldn't
show mashed mo- -qultOes would sell.
California sent East three hundred
ana thirty carloads Of fruit last year,
| The New York 2 oIuce Exchange
has adopted new rules for grading bar
| ley.
Manchester, N. H., has a new horse
| rail!oad-the only narrow-gAuge down
Et-l.
p mpkins "as biz as two mon can
i " sned tnelr golden rays on Jersey IS
| Fair.
a fl mill at Albany, Or, makas one
Thousand elght nunureu pUuHuS OF twiue
a day.
Three hundred aud twenty thousand
acres OF orcnarus beau,ty tue map o
l linois.
| The American Pomological Societ,
now has turee huuureu ana tniri riy-tigul
members.
A crop of seven million orange
adOrns CanIornia's landscape like
car"lVa..
1t is estimated that Cal fornia pro
duces fou hundred thousand pounds o
ralsins year.
The ia mers of Georgia will realize
nearly $2,OjO,0a0 from tneir peacu crul
ms year, sod n adrled state.
prom sing place innesota. Eigh
sets OF trplets and five lunureu au,
fifty pairs # twins were born there las
year.
One hundred and tifty coIonists have
left Indianapolis or Mlasts- -Ippi. On,
thousand moe are expected 10 follow
by the lst of January.
The Griffin [Ga.) News prophesies a
late fall because the cockle burs al e iu-
beginning TO grow, and lrost never falls
until tIey are tully ma ured.
tOurteen-Acre field near George
town, ;. e., has produced nlne nundre,
aud nIhety-tUur bushels OF rice, beIn.
an average al seventy-one bushels tt
lhe acre.
The Irigg County (Ky. Democrat saws
| UucIe urk Snllmdhtr uas Il ueld OF corr
lgrowing on LumJelIInd River bottom
which he claims will yield twenty bar
rels TO the acre.
The Princeton (Ky.) Banner SAYS tn,
tobacco crop Is u"usudlIy good. 1t ha
been well worked, the worms have no
hurt 1T at all, and the droutn did not ma
terIhlly lnjure it.
John HUI ton, an employe in the print
works Oh MancuesLer (England) firm
recently attained the age Of one nu
dred yea s. He has been in the service
OF that firm for the last seyenty-nin
years.
The Mobile News learns from a Ceda
Point irIend that the oyster crop thi
year is UNUSUALLY large and the oyste
better than for years. The same is uru
at Norfolk, Baltimore, and other nOtabl
oyster ma kes.
Hon. Frank Jones has on exhibition i
the S'aLe Fa'', Manchester, N. n. elgn
oke oi c cttle-the llsntest, iour year
= old, Welghlhg lour thousand pounds, an
\ me heaviest, seven years, SIX Lnuusan
: one hundred and eighty pounds.
A man recently wrote to the official
OF the Is ston, CoocUrd & Muntreu
= Railroad 'iUr u chance to run ON fin
road" He was told he cou Il .srnn NJ
, the ROAD" as much as he liked If n
would only keep cut OF the way O
: trains.
A gentleman OF Hawkinsville, Ga. ha
= purchased beautiful spotted fawl
a Wnlch he intends TO otfet as a srecia
premium to The preLtiesL Unmarried lad,
IN attendance AT the Ii H,usJon COUNT
EAR. Ihls is as it suOulu be--a yrett
llltle deer lor the preLteet little dear.
While Anna l.. Buckley, Of Macon
Ga, Was arranging flowers lor a casket
n sap from the brONen Stem OF the plan
EuphorbIa spattered in lie eye, i.fi IN
ing Il, aud also Arr cheek and the nau,
, sue wiped IL away Win. She is better
IAe plant snoulu be handled wiLn care
: A Mishawaka Gina. munufIcturia.
firm recelv d an order IOr Iurty ,noII
SAND m0uoe-traps one day last week
j WulCn Wou u CaLCh as many mice in al
= AOur aS cOuiu be caught Ill uIgut b,
G cats Ell ugh o throw LWtnLy-siX tnUu
sand Iour hundred and eighty cords o
DoOtJacks Az.
A new and fatal disease has appeared
t in New Bed ORD ana surrounding towns
( A large bunch appears LII The throat, al
tended by u oOllng and trOLhlng at til,
NOUN, ana huaIy enlarges 50 as 10 sLol
( DreaJuine aud produce ueaLh. IL Il
= very cor ,lous, aud batfl The skill 0
, cattle-DIeeuers.