The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-17
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What California wants is thrifty agricul-
tursts.
lie Mars, Ia, is numerously begirt by
prairie wolves.
Black duck sell for SO cents a pair al
Atlanl 10 Cily.
Tyler, Texas, has harvested three hun
dreu IONS OF ice.
California raisins are better looking than
the ordinary Malaga sort.
One California county produces $4,000
worth OF caiecoty year.
A jacksonville, Fla, dealer sells alli-
ga ors of all sizes from ten feet down.
The farmers uf Carver CouM'y, Mimi,
are forming II hail insurance company.
One Van Buren, County, Mieh.. man has
shipped six Thousand rabbits this winter.
A Madison Indana) commission-house
has shipped East seven Thousand rabbits
this winter.
A Clinton (Maine) factory makes two
hundred Thousand feet OF lumber inl0 GRO
quet Sc s yearly.
Texas will not only supply her own peo
pie with bacon this year, but VIII have con
siderable for export
Coyotes, rendered desperate by hunger
came into Comanche, Texas, anu attacked
the graves OF the dead.
All our State exchanges report great de.
sruc4on of parlrid Ses and raDDls by hun
ger, cold and hunters.
The wheat will come up smiling from its
long sleep in the snow, and Ue us inGredu
lous IF Cold-wca, her s .ories as q Sourh 5ea
Islander.
St. Tammany (La.) Farmer: Rice can be
profitably raised on most of our uplands
Water is no. necessity as is often sup
posed. 1t is used on low lands to facilitate
the cultivation Of the crop by drowning the
.,rass.
The Atlanta GA. Consti ution remarks
THE pc, CONS of Augusta in one night de
stroyed the llUNcr-Nard OF Mrs. DGiIaigle
1t had required tire cofrs ant LABOR of foul
years TO compile ltr garden, bat tire COWS
never thought OF tIlts.
A lady eighty Years old was out coas
ing with her gruyd laugh ers and the res
Jf the girls. in BIrting on, Iowa. one even
ng llsL week. She said she "dldnC use to
10 it in old Virginia when she WAS young
out it was grand sport.
The biggest South Carolina yarn is thai
General Faile, 0ne-arued n,an hving Il
raxaihlw, cut ana spfl IfV Htlfdred ana
lfty-two rails in nalf dag. Ano her Is
hat hog got lost in u straw I,iie IN Sep
ember, and was AIKEN Out alive ni DeGeur
Der.
The YeoEan says Franklin County. Ky.
makes the Des whisky, me besi beer, the
Des flour, the best malt, the best DIrrclS,
L. In hl r I,,n ii 4,
best chairs, and is preparing now to make
he best carpet and other LwiuGs in lhc
country.
A Florida letter says: During a resi-
denee OF twenty-five years in this Stale
have enevereXperienced such severe weather,
and, in fact il is only paraleled by the ia
nous Sunday of 1885, which destroyed
every orange-tree in Florida and prostraled
the cultiva, ion of that fruit until the ter
mination of the late war"
The area of land in Germany upon which
the tobacco plant is cultivated exceeds fifty
thousand acres Prussia Bavaria, the Duchy
of Baden, Alsace and Lorraine being the
counties which grow the most; and the av.
erage yield is about three thousand three
hundred pounds 10 the acre. Wi Ia this
crop some fifty thousand tons OF leaf and
one thousand Two IlllluTeu anu my touS
of prepared tobacco are imported yearly
the exports barely reaching four thousand
tons
A young merchant at Waverly. Iowa
when packing eggs about year ago fo
shipment to the East. wrote his name ant
address on one, with request hat the per
son TO whom it finally came would write
him and advise him of The fact. In due
course came the letter from Young lady
in New York; it was acknowledged; u cor
respondence sprang up; photographs wer'
exchanged, and the merchant is going t.
that city in a few days 10 take home thu
young lady as his wife.