The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-11
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While gOUseberries ripen amain;
| But both will account for your stopping
With that tOrturing abdominal pain.
Cherries should be eaten at breakfast.
Mississippi boasts four-winged goose.
Rural folks are setting out their celery.
Artificial ice fetches $40 a ton in New Or
leans
Peaches packed in moss won't bruise, nor
dry rot
Our cotton crop will net the country
5000, OO0 600
Cotton is nearly waist high in Central
Alabama.
A seven thousand pound cheese sits heavy
on Canada
A Texas editor boasts OF plums as large as
girls heel
Iowa slew more hogs last year than did
any o,her State.
Hosts of army worms are bivouacking on
the Nova Scotia fields.
A sort Of hydrophobia among the goats
exercises Hudson, n. Y.
A Florence, Mass, firm makes nonex-
plosive Oil from potatoes.
Hart County, Ca, has been peppered by
hail three inches in girth.
North Carolina raises ginseng, Of which
the Chinese are very fond.
The Norway maple having rich green
foliage, is nice for lawns.
A twenty-five pound watermelon has
been pulled at Cuthbert, Ga.
Horses are given Turkish baths in New
York city, and they like them.
The Agricultural Department is making
an important analysis Of grasses
There will be fifty millions more bushels
of wheat harvested than in 1871.
The Albany, Or, farmers fooled the bugs
this year by planting no po atoes,
An ugly COW is not as bad as a wicked boy
she wouldn't hook watermelon.
Niles, Michigan, is decked with a bush
whereOn fully five hundred roses bloom.
A Massachusetts, gent of eighty-nine killed
one thousand potato bugs the other day.
Ontario produced forty-four million
pounds ofcheese and thirteen million seven
hundred and forty-tve thousand pounds of
butter last year.
Liberia has a debt of million, on which
they can not pay interest. Though the soil
is fertile, they are unable to produce sutfi-
clent food Tor home consumption.
The canning of meats fruits and vegeta-
bIeS has become an immense business. In
Maine over five million cans of corn are
packed annually, the sales OF which amount
to 81, 100000 giving employment to ten
thousand people during The packing sea-
son.
Gen. Gordon has bought farm of nine
teen hundred and sixty acres in Worth
County, Ca, and is going to raise sheep ex-
tensVely. Which suggests a Conundrum,
| Why does Gen. Gordon resemble voluble
admirerof the fair sex? Ans.-Because he's
a she -praser
monstrous catfish weighing twenty
one and half pounds, was caught at the
bay by man named Layignc The fish
had swallowed a small eel that had attached
| itself to the hook, and the eel wound itself
in and out through its gills and mouth,
thus drowning it,
Jacob Wick a farmer, living near Mont
gomeryville, Penn, reports the strangest
chicken yet heard Of in those parts. 1t was
recently hatched, and has two tails, one
head and four legs. The head peeps up
from the middle of the body the tails are
at each end, and the legs and feet are prop
erly fixed under the body. The little chick
attracts considerable attention.
A Florida letter says: Superior wine
can be made from wild oranges at a cost of
50 cents per gallon. The wine is fine and
light, such as lady can safely enjoy, and
it is superior to sherry as a dinner wine.
The wild orange groves far back in the in
terror are more valuable for vineyards than
for budding the sweet orange. The wild or
native orange wine is an excellent tonic as
well as beverage
A few gentlemen engaged in farming in
Jackson County, Ca, have started a cotton
factory for the purpose of converting the
cotton product of their own fields into
thread. AT a cost of about ~, 500 they have
put this little factory into operation, and
are now at very small expense for hands,
spinning from twenty-five to thirty dollars
worth of thread per day. There is little
doubt that this is profitable experiment
"Got any cow-bellsT' eyes, step this
way" "Those are too small haven't you
any larger? "No, sir; the larger ones are
all sold" Rusticus starred off, got as far as
the door, when the clerk called after him :
'Look here, stranger, take one of these
small bells for your cow and you won't
have half the trouble in finding her; for
when you hear her bell you will always
know she can't be far of" The farmer
bought the bell.