The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-29
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Doves at 10 cents apiece in the Savannah
game market.
Broom corn fstches $25 to $45 a ton at
Hastings, Neb.
Lewis County, N. Y, ships much honey
to foreign places.
A Dahlgren, Mimi, lad has pretty nearly
died of wild carrots
The alcohol works at Iowa City are feed
ing six hundred steers.
The Alabama State Grange Fair will open
at Mobile, December Sd.
Wisconsin farmers are running the last
burrows of their fall plowing.
Corn sells in Uniontown, KY, at % cents
per bushel by the wagon-load.
Vermont farmers want the State Board Of
Agriculture abolished, as useless.
Mrs. Haskell, State Librarian of Tennes-
see, is candidate for reelection.
The first shad of the season, from Jack
sonville, fetch so cents in Savannah.
The Marquette (Michigan) lanes resound
these nights with the iingles of cozy sleigh
ers.
The peanut crop of Tennessee is estimated
at three hundred and fifty thousand bush
els.
The fish hatchery near Lexington Va,
contains three hundred thousand young
salmon.
Mr. Makepeace, of North Carolina, raised
six hundred and four bushels OF Irish pota-
toes 10 the acre.
A Georgia farmer kept missing his pigs
near an alligator den, into which he dug,
and killed fourteen of the varmints.
The horses belonging to the late James
Parker of Cotuitport, Mass, have been shot,
IN obedience to provision of his will.
The tulip is native of Persia and is sup
posed to have been brought from that coun-
try to Europe, by way of Constantinople,
about 1860.
According to the frequent mention in
the local papers, the cotton States must be
trying the experiment OF lighting the land
with gin-hOuses.
A colored woman who sat down on a bee
hive to watch the progress of a fire in Rus
sellville, KY, left her seat before the close
of the entertainment.
One Virgnian killed twenty mallard
ducks at shot, aud another caught, with
hook and line, in one day one hundred and
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stories are little tishy.
Paper teeth are new invention in Ger
many, and number of specimens were
displayed at the late paper exhibition in
Berlin. They are warranted fully as dur
able as any other teeth.
A Washington County farmer, aged
eighty, recently married young lady of
| twenty, and the family is badly mixed up.
because the BRIDES older brother is married
to her husbands only daughter.
A family in Gloucester, Massachusetts,
mourns the loss of goose at the advanced
age of seventy years, but is consoled by the
survival of another goose known TO be fifty
years old. If there is bird in Massa
chusetts which could regard the approach
of Thanksgiving Day with perfect serenity
it must have been this semi-Centenarian
fowl. 1t might be killed and cooked but it
could not be eaten.
An Idaho farmer is doing heavy busi-
ness in rabbits. He traps about four hun
dreG a day. Traps are placed along three
miles Of brush fence; the rabbits leap the
brush fence, and alight on board
covering OF the hole or trap, which board
works on pivot. The trap resets itself,
and very often catches half dozen rabbi S
at a time. The rabbits are fed 10 hogs.
Seven men are employed on the rabbit
farm. The ears of the game are saved, as
there is bounty OF two cents per pair,
enough to pay all expenses OF setting The
traps.