The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

N. y.
Nearly two hundred varieties OF fruits
are grown i'll Georgia.
Four chestnuts grown together are a
Boyertown Pa. rarity.
A pOultice OF red onions is the Ala
bama remedy Tor snake bite.
Nevada people are enjoying fresh |
strawberries from California.
The North Carolina freedmen are lay
ing up supplies Of 'possum tat.
Norfolk shipped over three million
quarts or straw berries this year.
Alum mixed with sugar, to make it
palatable, Is said to cure Group.
Three thousand sharks have been
caught for premiums at Melbourne.
A single county in New YORK yields
81, ,00O,0 ,0OU worth Of apples in good years.
A mill at Steep Falls, Maine, runs
day aud night on sugar boxes for Cuba.
Mexico and Brazil were the best for
eign buyers OF American cutlery in
1876.
A Holyoke, Mass, man is off for Dem
mark to make buckets by machinery
| there.
Japanese radishes, weighing ten
"
n. j.
Johnstown, Penn, has shipped nearly
! three thousand Dusnels OF CAesLuuts this
year.
| The cotton-seed oil mills at Montgom-
! cry, Alabama, are running SUCCESS
| Iully.
AT the last show in Paris itty different
| kinds Of grapes from one district were
displayed.
California sent East in 1876 three hum
| dred and thlrty-Iour car loads OF lruit of
four hundred bushels each.
Within two weeks two traders at
Qleens bury, n. b., have sent two thou
sand sheep to the Bangor market.
| Europe has purchased 81 500, 900 worth
of our American fruit within the past
twelve months, principally dried fruits.
| England has imported three hundred
| ana nlnety-sIX tA1u5and barrels Of ap-
pies from tne United States since last
| October.
| A Grant County, ky., man made from
one poplar tree twenty three Thousand
| seven hundred shingles, and has a cut
left for boards.
The rice crop Of South Carolina for
the year is estimated at lorty-tour
| thousand terces, ana that OF Georgia
at twenty-s4X thousand tlelces.
In Howell County, Missouri, COWS are
the principal circulating medium. A
thin COW passes current foG 50, good
one for $40, and u fat one tor $l3.
Mr.. George Niswanger, of Muncie,
Ind, cla,ms to have raised this season
four hundred and tifty-Jne bushels OF
corn on field containing five and three
quarters acres.
A vicious horse in San Francisco
whose worst fault was an ugly habit o.
; biting, was cured Of it by throwing no
potato into his mouth when he was il
, one of his tantrums.
+ Texas will make this year seven hun
dred thousand bales OF cotton. From
these will be Obtained eight hundred ant
lorty million pounds OF seed. This
: converted into oil, would bring owe
z VIA QUO 900.
= One OF the newest, and very profit
, abe industry that OF putting up cannel
guaVas, is in progress at ManaJee, Fla
= Ii ID stated that they are far superior t.
the peach, and Euliy equal TO me beS
preserved pineapple.
t There is peach tree growing il
y Sands street; Brooklyn, which bear
y TWO crops annually. AT the meeting 4
the horticultural Society on the g..
t inst a committee was appointed to il
= vestigaLe TINS novelty.
CaIfornia's wool growth Is becomin
one eL ner greatest industries, the el
port last year having been over lift
- million pounds, worth S9,O0O000. Iher
u are several WUOl-grOWcrS VINO own trou
It thirty to forty thousand sneep each.
II Plants must never be watered whe
d exposed to rUng neat, either from th
furnace or sun, Tor the drops left U
Lnem, in their jJInts an on their leavel
y become SO heated that 1T scalds ih
+ plant, which blIguts, il 1T does not d.
q sLrOy 1t.
: 1t is computed that the grain used fC
liquors in year in the United State
reaches 70 00O, coo bushels, which woul
II make 1000 Wv, 600 lour-pOunu loaves
a. bread. Great Britain uses &c. VOC, 0t
!. bushels OF grain yearly tor the SAN
purpose, and annually imports food
! .ue Yalue OF nearly $780, 900 700.
A California paper describes " th
J. latest thing out" as new hOrsesl(
a made out of three thicknesses OF ra
-, hide compressed together by heay
" pressure. " is said to last lODge
Nolbun OhI OhC-lOul VI up luutu dS u
Is commen shoes, never splits the hoe
9 aud LAS 40 bad influence ON the foot.
,r The Gloucester [Mass.) fsh-dealer
wnen they first began putting up pr
IL pared fish, were glad to give away IL
le skins and bones to whoever would al
" them off their hands. This refuse
w. now worth " per ton for manufactu
Is INTO a fertinzing compound, and II
Oh prospect is favorable for an advance.
re The one hundred and ninety-sevt
lie migratory quaIl imported by Judge E
=. erts, of Rutland, W., in June, at ii Co
Ol $35, have reared some live hundrt
~ young, and have started South, ana The
is showed euol u greed lor grdsshOppe
d, Lnat the State Game Association su
nd grsts TO Senator Edmunds the adyis
- Dility OF Congress largely importing the
"e INTO the grassAopper scoursed section
i'll OF the West.
nd Between the 1st OF May and the 30th
an September OF the present year the
Io- were exported from New York alo
twelve million two hundred and iii
ne thousand nine hundred ana Sixty poun
u Of butter and eishty-nine million 8
10 hundred and ninety thousand three hi
pred and fifty pounds OF cheese. I'll
'h enormous quantity OF American dal
e. products was mainly shipped Londt
r.. til,sg,w, Livery al RrisLnl Hambu