The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Peach trees are in bloom at Jacksonville,
Florida.
The olive is nearly as hardy as the Chi
nese tea-pIanr.
Fresh milk from California sells like hot
cakes in Arizona.
The vanilla plant, it is thought, can be
grown in Florida.
Thousands of conch shells litter the At
lantic City strand.
1t is said ten years is about the longevity
of telegraph pole
California has already had enough rain to
assure prolific crops.
The National Trotting Convention meets
this week in New York. ..
A huge pyramid of sour oranges will be a
feature at Florida's State fair.
The two cotton factories near West Point,
Ga, are to run day and night.
Down in Alabama strawberries are blush
ing and mignonettes blooming.
Strawberries have appeared in the New
York market Only 81 per box.
Mushrooms in composition come nearer
to flesh than any other vegetable.
A Lebanon lad was poisoned by pickles,
but escaped with an erupted back
A sassafras post, planted at Berea North
Carolina, in Colonial times, still stands.
JERSEYS pits yield over two million five
hundred thousand bushels of mari ayear.
One Southern California peak projects its
proboscis eleven thousand feet into the
sky.
1t is estimated that there are twenty-five
thousand acres of wheat under water in
California.
A observation-disclosures halibut
Topped ashore at WaquOit, Mass, and was
hay-forked.
The trade in Western horses and mules is
just now very brisk in SOuthside Virginia
and North Carolina.
An Atlanta man shipped thirty bushels
of sweet potatoes to Chicago. The sale
lacked $23 of paying freight.
A horse thief in Honsdale, Penn, is as
certained to have killed one of the stolen
animals and salted it down for meat.
Taxes were paid in Great Britain last year
on one million three hundred and ninety
nine thousand three hundred and thirty
dogs.
There is a man in Castleton, VT, who has
traded horses once week, on an average,
for the last five years. He lays claim to the
title of the Great American HorSe-trader.
Charlotte On. C) Observer: Farmers find
ing now no further need for their private
fences, the stock law being in eXistenee, are
hauling them to town and selling them for
fire wood.
Two reputable Carolinians testify to hav=
ing known certain peacock for more than
fifty years. and they don't know how old it
was when they first had the honor of max
ing its acquaintance.
Secretary Evarts' bucolic tastes lead him
to the ownership Of wondrons cattle. He
has Just sold from his Vermont farm yOkes
of oxen that weighed ,l5O and 1851
pounds, and two COWS that weighed /, 4OU
pounds each
An Atlanta gentleman proposes a nobby
banquet He will invite ten persons
There will be ten meat dishes-turkey
goose, quail, duck, sheep hog, beef, chicken
venison and fish One of these. dishes will
be placed before each guest, who will de
liver a ten minutes eulogy on the anima
represented.
San Saba TEX News: A gentleman is
resting in McCulloch County with foul
thousand sheep, which he designs to pu
upon a ranch as soon as a favorable loca
ton can be secured. The gentleman started
with the sheep from California two year,
ago, and had no other help than twoawel
trained dogs. The man drove a wagon th'
whole distance, while his dogs with no as
sistance from him, herded and drove thu
sheep, protecting and watching them whil
feeding in the day and driving them to th
camping place at night without help.