The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-03
THE DAILY STAR
ITEMS AT LARGE.

ITEMS AT LARGE.
Tie weeds have taken Tallahassee, Fla.
They make watermelon syrup in GeOr-
gia.
Florida expects large orange crop this
year.
Jersey farmers regret a scarcity of ap-
piles.
Water is 81 a barrel in Belleville, Ne
vada.
A Texan has killed over one hundred
deer this year.
Cedar fence posts are staple article of
export at Caro-, Mich.
Grasshoppers are eating the silk off the
corn at Waupun, Wis.
The people of Clinton, ILL.,, are enjoy
ing prairie chicken pot-pie.
A farmer near Newark, Del, is tilling
half an acre of sugar beets.
Spalding County, Ga, claims to have
horse forty-four years old.
A species of basket willow is said to
grow in Gloucester County, n. }.
A Texas Sonora drank concentrated lye
by mistake. Her recovery is doubtful.
A Warnersville, Penn, man has to-
bacco plants with leaves forty inches
long.
The shipment Of pine straw from Will
mington, n. c., to New York is assuming
large proportions.
The salt spray thrown up by the late
storm at Beaufort, n. c., has killed near
ly all the trees there
Kinston, n. c., claims a man and wife
one hundred and eighteen and one hun.
dred and four years old, respectively.
A New Hampshire man found live
Eel imbedded in the hard pan, six feet be-
low the surface of the ground, the other
day.
Tallahassee (Fla.) Patriot: A peach
orchard in the western part of the city
had full crop Of fruit this year, and is
now in full bloom ready for another crop
and if cold weather don't come on toe
early will succeed.
The tobacco crop of the world is 1900,
100000 pounds year. of which the
United States produces nearly half
Last years crop was the largest eve1
raised in this country. Ii is thought thai
the reduction of the tax on this article
will promote its cultivation, and that oul
tobacco crop will increase each year.
A we'll has been bored in Byron, Hous
ton County, Ga, to the depth of ninety
seven feet and no sutficiency of watel
was obtained. The Perry Journal says
most remarkable circumstance is tina
the we'll emits continuous blast O.
air or gas, and such is its force that two
mills, of the futter variety, have beer
erected over it and are now in constan
operation.
The New Berne On. C) Democrat says
We are credibly informed that there is
farm in the neighborhood of the lakes, Oh
the railroad, about ten miles below thi
city, upon which rice is growing, produc
ing heads thirteen inches long and ears o
corn measuring over twelve inches. Upol
this farm was recently killed bear TIN
fat upon which was one foot thick.
The Demopolis News says that in re
sponse TO Commissioner LeDuc's letter t,
Mayor Harwen of Demopolis, Ala, Mr.
Walton Glover of Forkland forwarde,
last week to the Agricultural Bureau q
Washington three pecks of fine olives
Mr. Glover has at his elegant countr,
seat, "Rose Mount" about twenty-fv
olive trees in bearing, and he could hav
gathered twenty bushels of the fruit
The olive tree sends out shoots from til
roots like the common plum, and from
one tree all orchard may be soon grown.
Wilmington (N. O. Star: The new in
dustry Of getting and shipping pine tags
or pine straw, as they are commonl
called, is gradually assuming proportions
the article being baled ready for shiT
ment faster than freight room can b
found for it in New York steamers, t
which place, we believe, all the shipment
are made from here. Further south, fror
Pensacola Fla, for instance, it is shippe
to Western cities, in considerable quaint
ties. In those places it undergoes
steaming process, by which the straw
converted into a Aeecy fiber which
used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, et
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