The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-21
ITEMS AT LARGE.
Iowa quails are moving South.

ceptionally good one.
The manufacture of guaya jelly is the
latest Florida industry.
The Indiana acorn crop is about the
heaviest for fifty years.
Ripe field Strawberries have been
picked at Aroostook County, Maine.
The biggest pumpkin at Traverse,
Mieh., fair, took spitz dog as q prize.
| One hundred and twenty carloads of
wheat thunder into Duluth every 24
hours.
In Bombay (India) cotton factory
women receive 81 and men $S per
mouth.
A Winston, N. c., lady dreamed her
husband was rat, and kicked him Sc
verely.
A young lady has been nominated for
school superintendent of Green County,
Wisconsin.
At recent sale in Bangor, Maine,
timber land brought from Is cents to
81 81 per acre.
Oranges, lemons, olives and almonds
are to be cultivated at Florida soon by a
large number of Italian colonists, now on
their way to that State.
The worn lancewood cane carried by
Daniel Webster during all the last years
of his life has just been presented to
Gov. Van Zandt of Rhode Island.
Englands hop crop is the lightcst in
many years, and large importations from
America are inevitable. No longer can.
the Briton taunt our ale drinkers with:
"You 'avn't the ops"
| The ravages of the phylloxera in the
vineyards throughout Switzerland and
Italy is reported by the local papers to
have been greatly exaggerated. There
will be the average wine crop this year.
A wild cat was killed a few days since
near Thomasville, Ga, after very ex-
citing chase and hard fight 1t " eighed
twenty-five pounds. Before it's death it
had eaten ten out Of nineteen pigs be-
longing to Mr.. Sanford.
A butcher in York County, Penn,
while cutting rounds from slaughtered
steer, recently, found in the beef a gold
dollar dated 1852. By the appearance of
the space in which it was enclosed it must
have been there for some time.
A pioneer party of about seventy
farmers from Sweden have sailed from
Liverpool for the province of Manitoba,
and if the movement should prove sue
cessful they will be joined by 600 Others
from the same country in the spring.
The mosquitoes are worse this season
at Fernandina, Fla, than ever before
known. The farmers have had to 90 to
work in the fields with mosquito netting
wrapped all over them, and there was no
peace anywhere to he found except such
as might be obtained by sitting in cloud
Of smoke.
A Raleigh, N. G., letter says: A gen
tleman who has exported large quantities
of jute, MANILA, ETC., from India for
many years, says if our people will 60
into the culture of jute he will come
down and set up the machinery for its
manufacture, either at Raleigh or any
other convenient point.
The Western States are feeling "a pros
perity almost unprecedented. Michigan
is selling more lumber than ever before;
Minneapolis is sending off 5000 barrels of
flour day, and the city has $4,000 in
habitants; Duluth, "the Zenith city of
the unsalted SEAS" is receiving 120 car
loads of wheat every twenty-four hours,
and the Northern Pacific is pushing on.
Ashtabula County, o., farmers have
been experiencing something strange in
the cattle line. Kansas men have been
there and bought up quite number Of
car loads of steer calves to be taken to
their State, to be kept there until they
are ready for market, when they will
come back to supply the market east
From 81 to so a head were paid, and
W en- they get to Kansas they are re
garded as worth $12.
In October, says the "New Bee-keep
ers' Text Book, the exact condition Of
all the stocks should be ascertained, both
as to their strength and their supply ol
stores for winter. If any are found lack
ing in both these points, join two togeth
er, or strengthen them with bees obtained
from neighbors, and supply them with
extra food. To insure the safety of the
stocks, till flowers bloom in spring, each
should have twenty-five pounds of honey
> Clarksville (Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf
"The tobacco crop is pretty we'll al
housed. There may be small lots of Late
planting still in the field. but SO LITTLE
that it can be made safe in days no
! ! tice of changing weather or frost. The
! color is mostly red, some light piebald
, considerable dark or black. We hear o.
no house-burp, and of but little worm
eaten. The crop is generally sound anc
leafy, and stemmers will find much tt
Q suit their wants"
A German journal, Der Techniker
t says that an excellent dry coating fo
basement walls is made of fifty pound
t pitch, thirty pounds resin, six pound
: English red, and twelve pounds brick
t dust. Boil these ingredients and mi,
4 them thoroughly; then add about one
. I'll, 4l,o .,ol,,,on &c oil af turpaut;ro a