The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

Southern California is getting dryer
every year.
The potato bugs are alternating be.
hind old walls.
Thefarmers are plowing around Hop.
kinsvllle, Ky.
An oyster tastes best after 1t reaches
Its fourth year.
Kansas cattle are not holding their
tlesh well this winter.
The grass is tall and beautifully green
at Clarksville, Tenn.
Michigan calculates her apple Drop
last year at $4,000 00J.
Thistle flowers look pretty in a bou-
quet OF autumn leaves.
A faUtory to make Ice at 81 q ton is
talked OF at Alexandria, Va.
The Florida orange business has not
proved remuneratlYe one this season.
A two hundred acre farm in Early
County, Ga, brought $50 at Sheritfs
sale.
Watertown, New York, saw robins
Hitting around the otIer day, and six
boys began going bureIooted. Nothing
IKE consistency.
A tree telling machine has been in
vented i'll England by Mr.. II R,nsome,
which, worked by three men, Will 40 as
much work as twenty -tour wooumen
ieiIng by the axe.
While saving wood at Colebrook, N.
H., some lumberm4n found over two
Dusnels beech nuts i'll a hollow tree,
all nicely shelled, no d0ubC the winter
store ol family OF squirrels.
correspondent from Richland
center, Wisconsin, writes to the STAR
that Ii. L. Bailey, OF that ace, bougGt
| two dressed hogs last week the heaviest
OF which weighed nine hundred aud
forty-fve pounds and the other eight
hundred and forty-tour.
Harlan Connaway, OF Oglethorpe
County, Ca, has succeed ed in inyeutinn
an article long needed in the South-a
cotton plcker's stool. 1t is seli-adjust-
ing and sell-acting, being strapped on TO
both legs and around the waist. After
picking stalk OF cotton you can rise,
and this caudal appendage follows.
The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark save:
Green peas are up and thriving on the
Western Branch. Spring salad is so ad-
vancad and the weather is 80 mild thai
the truckers begin to fear it will 90 to
seed before there is a demand for IL AZ
The North. Hanover salad is retailing
plentllully in market"
A novel method OF courtship exists
among the native Indians of Ecuador.
The lover goes to the woods and obtains
game, which he presents TO the maiden.
Inis is the proposal. Ii she accepts, she
cooks the meat. Thus the sultor knows
the lady's capacity for cooking, anu she
can Judge somewhat Ot his ability to
provide food.
The Worcester Spy says that early
IN the winter lady in Ashuurnham,
Mass, took a dry sick from brush
neSp, and put it i'll n flower pot to sup
port a house plant. Soon aIterward a
green spot appeared on the seemingly
uead stick, and developed into bunch
OF apple blossoms, Witn ali the beauty
ana perfume OF June.
Fifteen plantations in the parish OF
La:ourcht, La, which yielded four thou
sand five hundred and seyenty-nine
nogsheaus OF sugar in 1876, made only
three thousand one hundred and
oeVenty-one hogsheads last season-a
loss ot about 30 per cent. Taking this
falling OF in connection WlLu the in-
creased expense OF manufacture, the in
| erior quality OF ne staple anu the
poorer market OF 1877, the ThiDodaux
| Sentinel estimates mat the last sugar
crop OF LaIourche Will net less than malt
| tAat OF 1876.