The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-18
ITEMS AT LARGE.
are giants.

They We had snow III cheyenne.
Wisconsin farmers can't plow for want OF
rain.
The busy housewife is up to her elbows
in plum-juice
The best Michigan wheat is said to nearly
all go to France.
Persimmons are filling out with their
puckering juices.
A medicinal hot spring is bubbling in
Howell County, Mo.
Spectators are buying Vermont potatoes
at 80 cents bushel.
Sour crout, formerly winter dish, is
now perennial staple.
Oil of peppermint sold this week at 81 so;
| the lowest ever known.
The Jersey fields are basking in the gold
en- glow of pumpkins.
Wisconsin's total hop crop is estimated
at two thousand bales.
Over five hundred men are getting copper
from one mine at Ely, VT
Roast pigeons are none the worst for a
garniture of fried parsley.
Millions of 'hoppers and Hessian flies
spcckle the Illinois tillage.
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surgeons on the keen jump.
Farmers in several Wisconsin counties
are raising large tobacco crop.
A big freshet has played havoc with the
crops of Sampson County, n. G.
Strawberries in Muskegon County, Mich,
average tifty-two bushels an acre.
An Indiana ornithologst predicts keen
| lnn,r opI r1v yintnr
Mr.. Clegg, of New Albany, has lived on a
pint of corn-meal day for five months
A dog-fennel poutice for toothache
poisoned Charlottesville Ind.) lady's
chin.
Prime Michigan wheat all goes to France,
and they seem to Havre good market for it
there
Near Beaufort, n c., single haul Of the
seine lately netted one hundred barrels Of
mulletS.
A Jackson, Miss, philanthropist gives
one thousand melons to the State Prison
residents.
The display of plows at the State Fail
would cover acres in extent and achers in
anticipation.
One hundred and twenty-five pounds oj
| money IltvNC pCCll bbSo llOll V hhASti V
church spire.
Cotton is so abundant in Gonzales County
Texas, that farmers are giving one-half the
crop to pickers.
Consider yourself especially favored j
YOU know enough to button your coat wher
} sitting in strong draught of air.
Mr.. Gordon, Inspector of Live Stock il
Queensland, Northern Australia, compute
the loss in sheep there last year at lis, 49,
head.
The rains in Southern Texas, which com
menced more than six weeks ago, continue
! very heavy. The plantations in many coun
!. ties are under water, and cotton is fast rot
f ting in the boil.
;, Even Jockeys are complaining of unfai
dealing on the race-track. What shall w
G come to next? Before long even farmer
e who have spent time and money to breet
G good horses will begin to complain.
:, Maine law officers are just now having
}, hard time. Even barrel of cabbages mus
1 be examined with the greatest care, O
Y whisky will be found between the slaves
Our Yankee friends do not seem to objec
to cabbaging their whisky
Among milk COWS the Holsteins are jus
= now beginning to take the prominent plac
Y from which they have for years bee
crowded by the more fancy breeds of Jersey
= and Ayrshires. american farmers wi
$ some day learn to think and breed for then
q selves.
+ The first weeping willow in England
. said to have been planted by Alexande
. Pope He received present of figs fror
> Turkey, and, observing twig in the baske
g ready to bud, planted it. From his stoc
all the millions in England and Amerlc
are believed to have sprung.
l. w. A. Armstrong and J. s. Van Duzel
= with their Farmers Club and their HUI!
bandman, are doing good work among tn
l. soil cultivators of the southern tier OF couI
q subject submitted to their investigation tha
" thorough discussion does not follow.
~ Three self-binding reapers were exhibte
IL at the late fair of the New York State Agr
c. cultural Society. The Johnson Harveste
6 Company, Walter A. Wood and D. NJ. O
borne & Co. were the ambitious partie
il The johnson people were the only one
Is who avoided wire and used twine as
or binder.
,e DR.. Heath. President of the Farmer
Club, American Institute, writes his sun
y mer rambles for Wailace's Monthly. Poo
OF Wallace! In the September number /
il says his beau ideal (why not use Englis
a Doctor of traveller was the immort
III Helmbolt." Now can it be possible th
ar the worthy doctor-farmer has taken tc
Id much buchu?
st The continued dry weather in Kansas HI
H. proved a serious impediment to fall ploN
.e ing, and the result will be smaller acreal
ol sown to wheat this season than usus
n Farmers may be forced to plant more col
k in the spring and feed it to stock, and tt
=, dry weather by producing this result ms
ai in the end be credited with having bee
RS a blessing in disguise.
ed The nightly disappearance from the ms
ed on patch OF Harvey Brown, West Nottin
oh ham, Chester County, Pa, of his best cant
p loupes, was mystery he was determine
i'm to solve Accordingly several steel-tra
he were set among the vines. On glancing ov
If the patch the other morning, Mr.. BROW
"a was surprised to see large 'possum h
ar put his feet in it and was firmly held in t
ur- murderous teeth Of the trap.