The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-11


Strawberries are SO cents a quart in Au-
gusta, Ga. '."
Buckwheat is more eaten here than in |.
any other land. ....
The spring bonnet Of the period is builded
higher than ever. ...r .... .~
Georgia farmers say chufa plant is the
cheapest hog diet known.
Long Island fox hurts are an established
sport with rich New Workers.
Saline County (Ill.) farmers will plant al
great deal of tobacco this season. r. ;
A man six feet nine inches tall scars from
the county of Newton in Georgia.
The farmers in eastern Mclean County
(Ill.) are sowing flax quite extensively.
A Rockford (Hl.) man expects to have
seven thousand bushels of cherries this
season. -.
The beach at Galveston, Texas, said to be
the longest and broadcast in the world is
twenty-five miles in length.
/ Government land costs 81 IS an acre, and
whisky So bottle. And yet there are many
who prefer whisky to land
i A petrifed bacon ham has been found in
Prince Edward County, Va, and forwarded
to the University Museum.
Ten Brock and the California mare Mol
lie MCCARTHY, are to run fourtmile heats at
1 Louisville, KY, on the 4th of July next fer
4 $4,000.
Mr.. J. Trumbull of Marshal County,
Kan. farmer seventy-three years Of age,
recently had an exciting encounter with the
rats in his corn-crib. In one hour he killed
eighty-five.
England is about to engage in war with
Russia, and when the tug comes England
will get so tightly hugged she'll not have
7 any use for cotton in ten years. Plant
/ corn!
7. Russellville (Ky.) Herald The growing
wheat, not only in Logan, but in all the
counties from Louisville to Memphis, is
looking unusually promising. The pros
pect so far is fine for large and splendid
crop.
A few years ago, in Comanche County,
Texas a number of domestic chickens, de-
serted by their owner took to the brush
and the woods are full of wild chickens
They are numbered by the thousands, fly
like hawks, and are hunted as game.
t Under the auspices of the Deutscher Fish
Q erei Verein two million salmon eggs arr
Matched annually and distributed among th,
) various rivers of the empire. Strong efforts
e are now being made to introduce extensive
s ly the grayling which is comparatively rar
in Germany.
Extraordinary stories, says a druggist
a circular, are told of the healing propertie
of new oil, which is easily made from tn
yolk of hens eggs The eggs are first boile,
IS hard, and the yolks are then removed
l. crushed and placed over fire, where the,
q are carefully stirred until the substance
~ just ON the point Of catching fire, when tn
q oil separates and may be poured off On
n yolk will yield nearly two teaspoonfuls c
n oil. 1t is in general use among the coloIfist
- of south Russia as a means of curing cut
and bruises etc.
r Frankfort (Ky) Yeoman: D. Swigert {
Stockwood Farm, Woodford County, KY
7, has just purchased the imported Englis
I'll thoroughbred stallion Ashtead, handsom
~ brown bay, sixteen and quarter hapt
.s- high, and the winner of nine races in En-.
= land; was second nine times, and thr
III seven times. His blood is choice, bein
10 sired by Vidette, the sire of Galopin (winnt
of of the Derby in 1879; and Ashtead's dan
was by Cowl Ia son of the great Bay Middl
II ton and the famous Crucifix). He is beal
is tiful horse, with bone, substance and powe
be and sound every way.
ne I,angenbeck, the German anatoms
es writes: / am sure now of what | suspecte
long ago, viz, that pulmonary diseases hay
h1 little to do with intempefance or with erot
st. excesses, and much less with cold weathe
I'd but are nearly exclusively (if we except tt
berculous tendencies inherited from bot
us parents, say quite exclusively produce
of by the breathing of foul air. The lungs
he all persons, miners included who hay
ho worked for some years in close workshop
ie and dusty factories showed the germs of tt
lg fatal disease, while confirmed inebriate
,e. who had passed their lives in the open al
Lo had preserved their respiratory organs i
he tact, whatever inroads their exeesses hs
re made on the rest of their system. If
tn should go into practice and undertake Il
Lo cure of consumptive l should begin
no driving him out into the Deister IA dense
es wooded mountain range of Hanoyer), al
es prevent him entering house for year
,L two.
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