The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

shad are 50 brace at New bern, North
Carolina.
Measles are having big run in Ell
dora, Iowa.
California ships loads OF wine to Gen.
trail America.
Our cotton seed oil Is supplanting
olive oil abroad.
They are fishing through the ice down
in 81. JOhr, Y. Il.
Potatoes grown in dark soil are less
subject to disease.
Tins were never go stringent with
the Cuban planters.
Detroit brags OF turning out the best
saWduSt IN the world.
The season for coasting accidents ap-
pears to be backward.
Pound and a-half sunfsh are caught
IN The upner Chesapeake.
Jersey goldfish are not SO plump as
those caught down East.
California has a bonanza in orange
trees, numbering fifty million.
"VWginia peanuts are worth so ceuts
u bushe more than Tennessee ones"
Jennie June speaks of harmony in
mince.pie. There is discord after it is
eaten.
The acreage sown in wheat in Texas
is larger by thousands OF acres than
ever before.
A Sacramento (Cal. letter states that
they had fifteen inches of snow a. Blue
Canyon December Il.
Utica, N. Y, boasts Of a veritable
Whlte raj; same rs common rat with
the exception OF color.
A sale OF good farming land was made
in Stafford County, Va, few days ago
at less than 81 an acre.
j. D. Kelley, of NJ Madison. Kansas, ex-
hlbits corn which weighs one and one
| fourth pounds to the ear.
Minnesota people are Dragging Of
| having fresh lettuce on their Christmas
| tables, which was grown In the open air
| in their State.
The agricultural population of Georgia
| Is nine hundred thousand souls, and tue
number OF acres in cultivation IL q trifie
| over six hundred thousand.
The model husband has been found in
Albany. He don't permit his wife to do
| more than halt the work. She puts up
| the canned trult in summer, and he puts
dt down III winter.
The lowest temperature on the sum.
| nit OF Mount Washington last month
was thirteen degrees below zero, and
| the greatest velocity of the wind one
| huhdreu ana twenty miles per hour.
The aggregate steam power at pres.
ent in use in the world is {, 900, 900 hors
power employed in stationary engines,
and 10000, 0O0 morse power in locomotive
engines, making total OF 13, 500, 900 horse
power.
Leather man utacturers at Salem
Mass, and viclnity are eXperimentin ng
upon the substitution of the extract OF
| sweet fern for sumac in tanning. But
| one tanning is required with it, and be .
| ter colorinR and finishing are ob .ained
Inc only company manufacturing tn
| extract in the country 10 at East
| h achias, Maine.
In a paper read before the American
| Association for the Advancement of
Science, Mrs. Ingram stated that all the
| mosquitoes in room may be DESTROYED
| by exploding small quantity Of gun.
| powder in the apartment. Tue opinion
was advanced that similar explosions
might be employed to destroy the pnyl.
loxera OF the grapevine and the germs OF
disease.
| He was meek-eyed granger, and, as
he came hesitatlngly into our presence.
an uncommonly slinky looking yellow
dog skunk in between his masters leas.
"Mr. Editor" said the visitor, "t6al
there dog may be homely, but he Is the
best cattle dog in this county; yes, sir.
he 10 the best cattle dog ever saw, bus
he has one fault-just one fault. sir--
he won't Look at the cattle till they are
| cooked"
A few days ago, as some men we're
digging mari at K. L. Cowarts mari
pits, near Freehold, N. j., they exea-
waited some bones, among which was a
huge tooth, imbeddad In portion OF an
animals jaw. Several persons have ex.
amined them, and have concluded tina
they are the bones OF shark, which
once sported in antediluyian waters,
over what is now called the Battle
Ground OF Monmouth.
The Scientific American mentions q
new method OF forming Ceilings and
other plaster work, Introduced il E Q.
land. Tue plan is TO prepare the pla
ter beforehand In slabs, whlcn G
quickly fixed to jolsts, forming the cei
ing at once, as it would be wnen lat.eu ii
ana plastered. The joints are mada
good with plaster OF Paris, and a flush
ing layer OF lime and plaster is then ap.
plIed in the ordinary way.
Broken bottles are utilized in England
in the manufacture of cneap jewelry,
chimney ornaments, and inferior house.
| lulu glass for the manufacturing dis
tricts. Also for the Manufacture O.
emery powder, glass paper, &c. One
soda-water maker in London last yeai
broke, in the processes OF filling, cork
ing, cleaning and distributing his soda
one hundred tons of bottles. This OH
glass brings about 10 shillings per ton.
The Rural New Yorker notes that, in
drying, corn loses one-flth and whea1
one-fourteenth. From this the est
mate is made that it is more profitable
for the farmer to sell unshelled corn in
the fall at rs cents, than at 81 per bushel
in the following summer, and That whea
at 81 rs in December is equal to 81 80 il
the succeeding June. la the case O.
potatoes--taking those that rot and art
otherwise lost, together with the shrink
age-and there is little doubt that BE-
tween October and June, the loss to tEt
owner, who holds them is not less thar
33 per cent.