The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-06
ITEMS At LARGE.

Wild geese are hieng to a warmer CLINE.
The sardine trade at Eastport, Me-, is good
this fall.
1t is healthier to eat chestnuts boiled
than raw.
Onions are only 25 cents bushel in Ere
mont, Neb.
Lumbermen are moving into the Mime
sofa woods
Illinois corn huskers get plenty of work
and good pay.
Apples are selling at 90 cents a bushel at
Wabash, Ind.
Fort Platte, Neb., is dancing round ten
pound turnip.
The flavor of the pie plant is due to OK
attic acid in it.
Apples and corn are worth just the same
i'll Dayiess, Kan.
Mankato, Mimi, means to appoint city
inspector of wheat.
The luscious and nutritive persimmon is
softly dropping itself.
The best way to keep autumn leaves is to
dip them in hot wax.
The plane tree is to be planted around
the suburbs of London.
Apples are distributed gratis among the
poor families of Boston.
A limburger cheese factory is in opera
ton at Des Moines, Iowa.
Buckwheat cakes and Barbados sugar
are considered fattening.
The Virginia creeper leaf turns scarlet,
with some purplish tints.
| Florence Nightingale lives in London,
and is a confirmed invalid.
This years crop of tobacco is said to be
curing out unusually we'll
The Hessian fly is already at work in the
| fall wheat at st. Joe, Mich.
Livingston county, Mo-, plumes itself
on its fine blOoded horses.
Good potters' clay is now found near Uti-
ca, Macomb County, Mich.
Myrads of wild pigeons are nesting
among Georgia's mountains.
Goodhue County, Mimi, has threshed
about one-third of her wheat.
Leaves of dead gold, veined with green
are drifting from the ash trees.
The wild rose leaf retains its green even
after it has ripened and fallen.
An artesian we'll at Mt Pleasant, Ia,
spurts mud one hundred feet up.
A Lockport New York, man has in.
vented a corn husller of six-men power.
Ninety thousand bushels of peanuts viii
be produced in North Carolina this year.
Greensboro's, Ga, fair is closed for lack
of exhibits, the bull having ate the pump
kin.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has cocoanu
plantation of ninety thousand trees, al
bearing.
A barrel making match between two
coopers of Milford, Mich, and two of Pom
tiac is on the tapis. They propose to hoof
EN- up for from $50 to $500 aside
Just think of the enraged feelings OF
farmer who finds too late that he had
squash down in an off corner of the tielC
that was half pound heavier than the on,
that took the prize at the fair.
Louisiana raised thirty million orange
last year. And now, when man slips VI
on an orange peel and sprains his ear, III
goes home, sharpens his knife and cut
Louisiana out OF every geography in th'
house
By the falling of floor in the stable of
new barn owned by &. A. Woods, farme
near Pulaski, N. Y, five COWS were lef
hanging by the head, which were in th
stanchions at the time. They were fount
) dead Sunday morning
The Turks are as great connoisseurs o
drinking water as Western Europeans ar
of wine. To suit particular tastes the wate
sellers at Constantinople supply the bever
ages by the names of the sources from
which it has been procured. The water O
: Kanlikavak spring, near Arnaout Kioy, j
; world, for by careful analysis it has bee
proved to rank next in purity to dis,ille
2 water.