The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-05
ILEUS AT LARGE.

Buckwheat is said to give chickens the
cholera.
The peach buds have all been killed in
Warren County, Ky.
A GAINESVILLE wis. sanctum has stone
reptile taken from rock eighty feet deep.
Maple sugar-the first product of the
January thaw-appears in Springfield,
Mass.
The production of beet-root sugar in
France during the last year was 6So, 800, 900
pounds.
1t is calculated that insects and worms
cause $l5000O,U00 damages i'll the United
States annually.
Hemp-hreaking is going on with a rush
in kentucky-price 81 per hundred. The
snow gave the nemp superior rot.
Celery is regarded as a lucky plant by the
modern Greeks, and is hung up in rooms,
placed on silkworm frames, and given to
children.
Hungary produces more horses than any
other country of its Size-2, l5S, 600 for u
population of IL, 600, 600. The Government
has four breeding ableS
Angus a, Ga. has a farmer by the name
of Robinson James, who is performing mi
raculous cures by the application Of his
hands to suffering patients.
The quickest way to expel foul air from
a well is to heat bar of iron red-hot, and
lower it down into the water; the sudden
formation Of steam is elfectual.
Mr.. Michael Day of Richmond, VT, has
raised from an acre and a half of land 436
bushels Of onions, 200 bushels of potatoes,
100 heads of cabbage, and 100 bushels of
carrots.
Iroquis County, Illinois, has 200 artesan
wells, all OF small bore, within a radius of
90 miles. No one of them exceeds - feet
III depth, and they yield total daily sup
ply OF 90, 500, 900 gallons.
All over the South farmers are busy as
beavers preparing for the years crop The
negroes have generally re-engaged with
their last years employers, and the hum Of
industry livens up the old land.
The Newman ga Herald says: Choice
mules range at $75 800 and $140 One
planter, few days ago, purchased eight
mules. That paper believes the mule trade
will continue to be lively in that market
for month or six weeks to come.
Wisconsin pays $40 0apicce for wolf scalps
and this protection has largely developed
the industry of lupiculture. In some o.
the oldest counties in the State, according
to State Senator Bailey, there are homes
farmers who make good living by rearins
wolves and scalping them.
To get rid of mold in cellars, put some
roll birthstone into pan and set fire to it
close the doors, making the cellar as nearly
alright as possible, when the fungi will bt
destroyed and the mold dried up. Repea
this simple and inexpensive operation ev
cry two or three months for two or thre,
hours at time.
The largest and oldest apple tree in New
Hampshire has just been cut down. Its ag'
is stated at two hundred years. 1t mea
sured at the ground eleven feet eight inche
in circumference. -Four feet from til,
ground it measured seventeen feet eigh
inches in circumference. 1t was fifty fee
high. 1t had seven large branches, tn
largest being over six feet in circumference
and smaller one over three feet. Abou
forty years ago il bore fifty bushels of apple
in one season, and until last year it Dor
fruit annually.
., naa.n.uruzz zu1rrnrgss
White as snow and soft as down are th
hands of ladies who use Camphor Ice Lo
ton. For sale by John Keeshan, apothe
cary, Sixth and Walnut.