The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-12
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Gasoline destroys all animal germs.
Let us be social. So shall the hours pass
happily.
Sheep bakes are the latest phase of gas
tronomy
Michigan potatoes are small and sparse
in the hill.
Richford, VT, has had frost every month
except July.
Very little fax is now raised in Berks
County, Pa
Oil ofyeucalyptus is both a disinfectant
and deodOrizer.
Thin ice formed at Deep River, Conn,
last Saturday.
The Mt. Clemens, Mich, girls have had q
cooning expedition.
Turkish wheat growing has proved very
successful in Kansas.
Pickerel fishers are having magnificent
sport at Otsego Lake.
Along James River, Va, the number of
rail birds passes belief.
Houston, Texas, has had an alleged
shower of incredible frogs.
American-made cigars are being shipped
in large quantities abroad
Andrew Whitmer of Detroit, frustrated a
snake bite by tobacco juice.
Furniture and ornaments of the greatest
antiquity are most fashionable.
| A tablespoonful of turpentne in pail of
water will dcodorze a cesspool.
Some few Chester County, Pa, farmers
still thresh with the antique fail
The vegetation in the State of Chiapas,
Mexico, is being deyoured by locusts.
"The season for showing watermelons
against your countenance is slipping
away
| A peach always gravitates into a dealer
basket with the speckled side down. Now,
why is it?
Salt applied to cabbage plants as they be-
gin to head will save them from the ravages
of the cabbage worm.
The beauty of mans parting his hair in
the middle appears to be that it gives both
ears an equal chance to Hap.
Prof Geo. E. Morrow of the Illinois In
dustrial University, has been engaged by the
Chicago Live Stock Journal.
Prussia is about to establish a school for
dairymaids. Dairy interests in Germany
are making rapid and solid progress.
A Chicago man who died of starvation
was the owner of ten-dollaT bootjaCk; but
man can not live on booti Jacks alone.
The fear of an invasion by the Colorado
beetle has not left our German cousins
Their present watchfulness, however, bids
fair to protect them qt1ectually from the
pest.
The Herefords are about to make a raG
A r,ari1a Tho | an CahaS Fsto al
Company has recently purchased three Here
ford bulls in England for shipment to Bue
nos Ayres for breeding purposes.
Hon. ]. J. Woodman of Michigan write
: from Paris of his visits to the rural parts o
France. He speaks highly of their system
of agriculture, and attributes much of tha
country's prosperity to its economical pro
ductiveness.
: A bill has had third reading in tn
) British Parliament, which is called by tn
enemies of American cattle, "the dishguret
and emasculated bil'-whatever that ma
be. 1t undoubtedly permits people othe
than EnglshmeH 20 breed and sell cattle.
The price brought by peppermint oil is s.
low that growers of peppermint in Cay
uga, Wayne and Oswego Counties, Ney
, York, propose to give up raising it. Th
oil now brings but 81 &c. which, togethe
with the poor crop renders the culture pro-
itless.
The Superintendent ola Wisconsin chees
factory, having found small fish in one c
t the cans of milk of patron, called his al
tention to the fact that fish were wort
more than cheese, and therefore it woul
: be better to sell the fish as fish. The mora
may be given thus: When water is used
adulterate milk do not dip it out of th