The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
All our garden flowers were originally
wild.
Weeping willows are inappropriate for
lawns.
Onions weighing pound are not rarity
in Italy.
Georgia robins are pecking at the early
chinaberry.
The glorious pansy came from the little
wild violet.
Radishes grown quickly are not tough or
indigestible.
AT Aiken, S. c., the peach and plum trees
are blooming.
Flowing on the dry ridges has begun all
over Indiana.
The American elm is perhaps the best av-
enue tree we have.
Several tea trees, thirty feet tall, soar from
Talbot County, Ga.
The sugar crop in Cuba is reported to be
very much impaired
A farmer in Cobb County, Ga, has gone
into systematic chicken raising, and expects
to net 81 800 year at it.
An ear of corn nineteen and half inches
in length was ruled out of the Paris Expo
sition shipment at the Indianapolis Board
of Trade, on the discovery being made that
parts of two ears had been ingeniously
glued together.
s. D. Hopkins, of Milford, Kan, has a
parsnip two feet seven inches long One
end grew in Kansas, and the other toward
China. The Kansas end is the larger, prov
ing Kansas more fertile country than the
Celestial empire.
Carrollton (Ky) Democrat: The tobac-
co crop, from present indications, will be
about as large this year as it was last. Farm
ers living on.the hills have sown more seed
and those in the bottom less. We have
been informed that wheat presents better
appearance than for several years past.
Sumter (Fla) Advance: Never before in
the memory of the oldest inhabitant has
there been so much rain during the winter
as in the past one. The prairies and flat
woods are overhowed, and cattle are suffer
ing terribly, being driven from their grazing
grounds. We learn that many are dying of
starvation.
There are four pail factories in East
Swanzey, N. H., which give employment
TO about fifty men. There are annually
manufactured in the place one hundred and
fifty thousand common pals, seventy thou
sand toy pals and large number of small
buckets, the latter being sent to Philadel-
phia for mince meat
One day last week the boys of Mr.. Wiley
! Winkle, who lives seven or eight miles
south of Corvallis, Oregon, while breaking
sod in front of the house, plowed up lot
of old silver coins, the latest bearing date
of 1848. 1t is q mystery how they got there
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and the United States.
Th6sWestern New York correspondent OF
the Cultivator and Country Gentleman
says that farm produce has been sold al
such low rates that little cash is left in
farmers hands, and business men in cities
will look in vain for an active spring trade
of some kind the only crop ON which West
ern New York farmers have made real
profit during the last few years.?
The MATRIMONIAL LoTTERY.-A young
stranger called on DR.. McC- one evening
while he was a pastor in New York City, tc
engage his services in the performance of g
nuptual ceremony.
, 81 wish to make a bargain with you, doc
: tor" said the young man; II think the CIR
am to marry will make first-rate wife
If you will wait a year for your fee, and SHE
turns out as think she will, I'll then give
you $50"
They agreed, the young couple were mar
ried, and the incident passed from the doc
J tors mind. AT the end of year, at the
: same time in the evening, the young mar
called again. The doctor did not recognize
him at first.
'Do you not remember the bargain VIZ
made when you married me year ago."
ooh yes" replied the doctor.
"Well," said the young man, ''she is twict
as good as / thought she was. There's $10l
for you"
Exactly the opposite of this is the follow
ing:
A clergyman in one Of the Hudson Rive
towns united German couple in marriage
When the knot was tied, the bridegroom
, said, Dominic, I've got no monish, but III
, send you Won leetle pig" 1t was DONE ant
, the circumstance was forgotten by the cler
gyman. Two years afterward he met tht
German in another town, for the first tim,
since the marriage ceremony was per
formed.
Dominic" said the German, ''you re
members you married me, and gave VOL
Won leetle pig?"
"Yell, if you'll unmarry me I'll give yol
two leetle pigs Editors Drawer, in Har
per's Magazine for April.
: A man who had announced his first at
tack of rheumatism learned in one-hal
hour that the following would cure it
Iodide of potassium quinine, glauber salts
onions, raw lemons, raw silk, oil silk, gil
and tansey, rock candy and whisky Turkish
baths, potato carried in his pocket, a hors
chestnut carried in his pocket, an eel ski
: around his leg, a suit of red flannel, chloro
form liniment, hot lemonade, trip South
dry atmosphere, equable temperature, sui
phur baths, mustard and hot water, cam
phor iniment, and electricity.
We have been informed that a large glaS