The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Strictly pure honey Will granulate IN
cold weather.
Louisiana raised thirty-two million
oranges last year.
ling through ice 10 popular sport
down East just now.
Bull-back riding is risky new hilar-
ity at San Francisco.
A woodsaw agitated diagOnally is
good Tor a torpid liver.
No two farmers agree as to how an
ice-h"u,e should be built
Florida hotels are now serving shad, |
green peas and tomatoes.
only ten States are generous enough !
TO support boards o! health.
Coolers (pea-nurs) are selling at At
| ,nta, Ga, aC 81 81 II Dushel.
A blooming pom l-llly shines through |
the IN I'd Ice at SAM wien, Mass.
The Roode Island Poultry Sooiety's |
show wAI include cats and dogs.
f sh are peGdlrd in portable tanks il
japan, The law requiring them TO be b. H.
alive.
Qua in Kansas they are burning cor
ior Iuei, ami ind 1t 10 be cheaper Ihah
wood.
The rabbit is timid, but no cook Ca
make il quail, InlS is fact in natural
history.
Every male ci izen of Atlanta, Ga, is
aXed 50 lOr the maintenance OF tDt
,Vreets.
Auburn, n. Y, has had a shower OF
worms, ana Is now praying ior cyclone
If sparrOWs.
The winter is the time for study and
reading. This is work Of the most use.
lul ana profitable KIND.
The IagersoII (Can.) factory has
turned out Il observation-disclosures
cheese. 70 produce it tnirty-iVe tons
| If milk were used.
Srloin steak at cents per pound and
line fat tn keys at 70 cents each are
among The latest market quotations III
Mason County, Texas.
The Miners journal, speaking of coal
pro spects, says: ave think the Scnuy =
Kill region has every reason to feel en-
couraged at the prospect ahead for next
summer"
"dow does the new cow answer"
asked one man of another who had late
| ly purchased cow. II really caWl
say" he replied, "lor Pve never asked
her any question
"We were shown a very beautifully
decorated piece of pottery yesterday.
1t was a ueep red on the outside, anu
he inside was decorated with TWO quarts
Of beans ana half pound OF pork"
The Ohio Agricultural Convention
asks the Legislature to forbid the kill
ing Of quaIls Tor five years, and to re.
cal that part OF the game law which re-
rfn n mat DDtipnS fOl'hiIIi ntT
respassers.
A subsidy OF $1,000 has been grant ed
~ the Peruvian Government to a COM
pany which will establish a line o
steamers to Hong Kong. The freedom
Of the country and 80 cents day are Of
tered by sugar painters tor ooOIe labor
. ers.
!, Horse-hesL is now becoming so com
mon an article OF food in Paris that Il
thousand beasts are consumed every
month. Thev are not killed until thel
Become useless for work through age OF
lameness. The meat is but half the
price Of beef.
In a store at Mendoza, Ill.,, town o
SIX thousand inhabitants, there met b,
accident the other day six men over sil
G feet four inches high, the average heigh
being within lardly appreclaDle traC
5 ion of six feet five, and the averag
= weight two hundred and thirty-fye an
>, one.half pounds.
A patriotic man in Kennebunk, NJ Q
' mas painted his house and barn .trOI
it. foundation to roof with alternate band
- Of red, white and blue. At each cOrue
of the house is a huge Union Jack abou
b ,eYen feet wide, and The chimneys ar
Us painted with the national colors au
, studded with stars.
A. Griffin, Texas, is supported almost e1
clusively by buffalo hunters. The
work with the tact CO Of well organize
skirmishers, and hundreds of buffaloe
So IRE killed every day. The hides ar
~ worth there from 81 to 81 90 each, an
Sc he meat commands good price. !
q skilliul hunter will skin a siX-year o.
bull in five minutes.
-, The Delawarean, Of Dover, Del, say
III The peach prophets have begun to pr
e- dict the loss of the peach crop this nel
I'd ason, on the ground Of the weatbt
haylng been 50 warm. Well, thel
en- wouldn't be much lost anyway, for I'll
as shippers most always lose all they SEN
be Peaches are not such great good an
hJw: better SOW grain instead"