The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-30
FROM THE COUNTlsY AZ LARG,

FROM THE COUNTlsX AZ LARGE.
Potato bugs have invaded the Dover, Del,
stores.
New wheat is coming into the market in
Georgia.
The frost has been Furnishing vegetation
in Virginia.
Horn cornucopias for bouquets, running
vines, etc, are i'll favor.
Quantities of peaches are falling from the
Kent County, Del, trees.
The stock of shingles was never so low in
the Bangor, Me-, market
A Pittsburg firm are building a coal-min-
ing machine for London.
A combined ironing-t table chair and step
ladder is q new invention.
The law forbids killing or snaring Quails
in California until the 18th OF September
next.
Damp, unclean cellars cause consumption
neuralgia, rheumatism and other chrome
ailments.
Trout fishing began in Canada on the 1s
of May and Will continue until the 10th Of
September.
Stable manure is not benefited by being
exposed to rains and being thus saturated
with water.
HARLEM, Holland contributes forty thou
sand double tulips 10 the garden Of the Paris
Exposition.
Chicken-sticking is murder most fowl,
bloody and unnatural" Why not wiring
their necils?
Hen manure should never be mixed with
lime or wood ashes as either will liDerate
the ammonia.
The London Field reports a root of horse
radish eighteen inches long and TWO feet in
circumference at the top.
D, c. Brady, of Lexington, Va, has sold
eight thousand acres Of mountain mineral
land to a Northern capitalist.
One-half Of the bees in San Monica, Cal
were lost last year, says an exchange. Hope
it was the tail hall, remarks the Chicago
Times.
1t is estimated that four hundred thou.
sand acres of new ground in Northern Min
neSota will be put under cultivation this
season.
Forty-seven per cent. of all the laborer
in this country till the soil, and they are
making less fuss about hard times than any
other class.
Near Pottstown, Pa, are a number o
rocks from which musical sound is givel
out when they are struck. They are know
as the ringing rocks
Wheat in Green County, Ky, bids fair t.
make half a crop. The low prices and de
struction of the plants by bugs will max
the area set In tobacco small.
Illinois crop reports are: AT Carrollton
winter wheat far short of month ago; a
: Benton, wheat badly damaged by rust; a
; CarllnVille, too much wet and corn un
planted; at Danville, ditto.
The farmers around Mount Pulaski, Ill
are signing petitions asking the village boar
} to grant liquor license and pledging them
I selves that in the event of non-Complianc
with their request they will refuse 10 Trad
i'll the town.
e Macon (Ga.) Telegraph; Reports from a,
: OF our fine orchards in this section are {
the most fatlering character, promisn
y good ripe peaches, and plentiful suppl,
e by the lst of June, fully two weeks earle
e than in former years.
+ Norway has some curious exhibits at tn
Paris exhibition. She has fish skins tame
: for gloves; eel skins prepared for harness
shark skins, ten feet long and three fee
wide, Tor various purposes, and whale skin
sixty feet long, for driving bands for m;
n chinery.
e An expert can usually select the breed
h of hens by their eggs alone. A Thorough
bred Brahma lays Il cohee-brown egg; Blu
y Cochin lilac. Any cross changes the colo
b and texture of the egg-shell. The Spanisl
Il Leghorns, Crevecmurs, Hamburgs, Houdar
! and many others lay pure white eggs. I'll
l. games have a slight tnge of brown over I'll
= shell, which is smooth and fine grained.
d The Savannah News says We learn frol
# Mr.. j. NJ Butler that large sawfsh, mea
~ uring thirteen feet in length, with Sc.
o two feet long, was captured in Kilkenn,
Bryan County, on Wednesday, by Micha,
+ Brown. Brown had great difficulty in ge
v ting the fish to shore, and in the atteml
+ his seine was badly damaged. 1t is a grei
n curiosity, none such ever having bee
n caught in these waters before.