The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

West for Is cents a bunch.
A party of North Carolinians have left
that State to settle in Indiana,
A lady while angling in Lake Jessup,
Fla, recently, caught a white shad
A Rockford, Ill.,, Swede has invented
a machine to knit stocking in a minute.
The spring cattle drive in Texas, accord
ing to the San Antonio Express, will num-
ber two hundred and twenty three thousand
four hundred.
The, Stockton (Cal. J. Independent men
tons the arrival there of olive, white fig
and sorbula trees from Dalmatia. The sor-
bula is fruit now brought to public atten-
ton here for the first time.
A new kind of fruit car, lined with felt,
has been placed on the route between New
York and San Francisco 1t is said to be
frost-proof, and that fruit can be shipped in
such cars to Eastern markets in the coldest
weather.
At Port au Prince plant grows Of such
strong narcotic powers that in the hands of
skillful practitioner, it will produce coma
of any intensity or duration, or even death
itself when 50 intended. The knowledge Of
this plant is confined to a few families, who
transmit the secret as an heirloom from
generation to generation.
Mr. George Germander, of Savannah, has
just planted at Schuetzen Park two large
trees-a water oak and an elfn-wh!ch are
growing together, the trunk of the oak
passing clear through the elm. 1t is a Gu
riosity, and should the strange twins sur
vive transplanting will prove novel and at
tractive features on the ground
The Easton pa. Express says: Grass
hoppers in large numbers were found last
week in Forks Township. A gentleman re-
siding about two miles outside of Easton
brought to town sample dozen, and when
the paper bag in which they were confined
was opened, they hoped out as lively as
though sporting on their native heath in
midsummer
A Newbern n G. letter says: We notice
in the way of steamer freights from this
port that hollywood logs for veneering and
other purposes are being shipped North to a
considerable extent. These logs measure
from ten to twelve feet in length, and from
six to eighteen inches in diameter. We are
informed that large quantities Of dogwood
are also being shipped for the manufacture
of factory spools, etc.
At a meeting of the American Fish Cul-
turists Society, on Thursday, in New York,
it was stated that in the States 50, OOO, 900
bushels of oysters annually are consuned
and in New York 5000 200 annually. The
fisheries in the United States produced i'll
1875 total of ], ,294, OBS, 900 pounds, valued
at $75, ,278,829. Codfsheries produced
1895, $40; whale, $2,s4l, 900; mackerel
81, 375, 262; mephaden. yielding more than
the whale fishery, 81 ,657, 790; great lake fish
cries. 81 600, zoo; and the lobster catch over
$1,000, 900. In the business are 2,198 yes
sels
The value of fruit crops in the United
States is estimated by the Government
statistician at $l40,0O0,OoO annually, or
about half the value of the wheat crop
The value of the annual crop of Michigan
is put down at 81, 100000 California has
go, 600 acres of vineyards producing 10000
600 gallons of wine annually. besides vine
gar, raisins, brandy and fresh grapes The
other States produce 100000 gallons of
wine annually. The single port Of Norfolk,
Va, reported 100000 quarts of strawber-
ries this year, Illinois, whose fruit growing
is of recent origin, now has $4,000 acres Of
orchards.