The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-30
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Palmyra Mich, has dried apple fac
tory.
The central Illinois potato crop is a re
puted failure.
Pork is ~ cents pound on the hoof in
rural Michigan.
A Pittsfield, N. Y, man died from eating
chestnuts to excess.
Helena, Montana, is lively, prosperous,
and growing finely.
Clay County Kan, is alive with quails
and busy sportsmen.
Wild geese are making mischief amid
Nebraskas corn-helds.
Girard, Kan, has shipped $40, 600 worth
of tlax-seed his season.
A carload of Colorado cheese has been
shipped 10 Cardiff, Wales.
Cattle browse with truly pastoral effect
along the Peoria highways.
On Tuesday night forty-foot whale was
killed in Peconic Bay, l.. |.
The Hudson River excursion season was
successful beyond precedent.
The Sioux City, Ia, market is embar.
rassed by redundance of game.
Eureka, Kan, has been momentarily
clouded by swarms of flying ants.
Five farmers of Rice County, Kan, los
all their crops by one cigar spark.
The corn crop will put many millions O.
dollars in Kansas farmers pockets.
Lots of wild turkeys shed Thanksgiving
tone on the suburbs of Brazil Ind.
A ditch to irrigate fifty thousand acres i.
being dug ten miles from Greeley, Col.
Thirty-fve hundred head of steers are
being fed at the Terre Haute distillery.
One seed has developed six hundred
pounds of pumpkins at Rosemount, MINI
Soap-bolers and men working in tanner
les have proved exempt from yellow fever
Since January, 1876 the Milan, Italy
Cremation Society has burned twenty-thret
bodies.
Over forty thousand buffalo hides hav,
been shipped east from Bismarck, d. T..
this season.
A man in North Argyle, N. Y, raised thi
year twenty-eight hundred bushels Of pota
toes on seven acres.
The California grape crop this season i
the largest ever gat athered, and preparation
have been made to cure million pound
of raisins,
The prize for the best bale of cotton ex
hbited at Paris has been awarded to Mem
phis. The same bale received grand les
limonial as being the best ever raised il
the world.
Milk is found to be an antidote to leac
poisoning. The Journal de Medicine state
that after each opera or at some white leat
works received quart day, no collie o
harm to health occurred.
The Atchison (Kansas) Champion says
The advance guard of large colony o
wealthy farmers from Lancaster County
Pa, are now in this city with a view of 10
eating in some desirable part of our State.
Capt. Henry Allen, of Salem, Mass, ha
a pear tree two hundred and twenty-nin
years old in his garden. Next to the End
colt pear tree it is probably the Oldest il
this country. 1t has borne several bushel
of fruit this year.
A famous horse breeder of France ha
reared his stock for twenty years on die
of parsnips instead of carrots and oats, witt
the result of great vivacity of spirit AM
sickness of coat'-conclusiv evidence O
heallhful condition.
California wine manufacturers, according
to the San Francisco Chronicle, are indig
uant because LaSleTn JouTnalS nave pup
lished pictures of Cinnamon and other
stamping the juice out of the grapes. The
declare that the work is all done by cleai
machinery.
A stud of thirty horses, belonging t.
Lord Castereah, who has horsed and driver
the London and Dorking coach this season
were sold the other day at Aldridges Re
pository. They brought two thousand on
hundred and two guineas, averaging sev
enty guineas, or about 1867 50each.
TO show that oats can not be converte,
into barley, but that every seed bringetl
forth after its kind, the Bedfordshire Fiel,
Club of England made careful expert
ment, and discovered at the outset on
way in which the erroneous impression
generated. Taking an average sample o
white oats and looking at them carefully
they found that "ten per cent. consisted Q
barley and other grains"