The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-19
ITEMS AT LARGE.

1t is time to take the Spitz dog to. .th'
barber.
Pansies and angle worms are comm,
up nicely.
Bahama watermelons are on sale il
Key West.
The South raised six million pounds o
tobacco last year.
Strawberries are a dime a quart il
Jacksonville, Fla.
Texas raised one-fifth of the Southern
cotton crop in 1879.
VIM. Badger has landed nine foo
sturgeon at New Berne.
Two camels raised in Texas were sole
at San Antonio last week.
A Macon professor incubates hens
eggs with kerosene lamp.
Some patient being has counted $4,000
seeds upon mullen stalk.
Oat meal is going forward to Liverpool
in considerable quantities.
The Georgia fields to-day are pictur.
esque with cotton planters.
Cut-worms are injuring the young
corn crop in parts of Georgia.
Beaver trapping is brisk and paying
business in Northern Alabama.
The peach crop may 60 100000 bas-
kets ahead of last year, it is said.
Maple sugar festivals are in season
among Minnesota rural churches.
A Friends colony of 26,0O0 acres has
been located in Northwestern Iowa.
Bryan, O., has had a hailstorm thirty
minutes long and one township wide.
DR.. Brissell, of Beaufort, S. c., ex-
poets to grow $4,000 bushels of rice this
year.
Twelve thousand cattle have been
shipped out of Faribault, MIMI, the
past year.
There is much complaint in Lyon
County, Kv., of the ravages Of insects
among young tobacco plants.
Georgia has 6,S64654 acres of wild
lands reported for taxation, the average
assessed value of which is % cents per
acre.
N. Nixon, of Fork Beat, found in his
plantation, one day last week, tobacco
stalk in full bloom Evergreen Ala. J
News.
Mr.. James Page, of the Fork, one day
last week caught an eighteen pound tur-
key in snare set for coons.- Evergreen
( Ala News.
A stock-keeper reports curing many
bad warts On cattle and horses during
several years, by application to each Of
lone good daub of tar"
A planter in North Carolina has made
a tobacco hogshead by hewing it out of
the trunk of large tree. No hoops are
required to hold it together.
OF the Cuthbert RASPBERRY, the Rural
New Yorker remarks that "Its weak
point is not yet discovered. Mr. Rose
says he has seen it "killed to the
ground"
A peach gatherer with which, it is
claimed, one man can gather as many
peaches from the trees as four men can
without it, has been invented by Mary
land genius.
Rendering loose or dry soil firm after
seeds are sown, by roller or by the
feet, is an aid to their termination. But
if the soil is moist when seeds are sown,
the use of roller or Of the feet is to be
avoided.
The location of SAC, 900 cotton COM
press at Brenham, Texas, is a settled fact.
Northern capitalists have offered to take
three-ffths of the capital stock, on con-
dition that citizens of Brenham take the
remainder.
A correspondent at Keene, N. H., rec
ommends boiled potatoes as a remedy
for diarrhea in cattle. He says that
three pecks day, fed warm, cured in
two days an OK of his that was badly
affected in that way.
A sawfsh fourteen feet long, including
its saw, which is three feet long, and with
forty-eight teeth, was caught in a net at
Mayport, Florida, few days ago. Its
teeth, say those who know, indicate that
it is twenty-six years old.
In some places rats have become a
great pest in farm-houses and barns.
Copperas is the dread of rats. In every
creyice or every hole where rat treads,
scatter the grains of copperas; and the
result is stampede of rats and mice.
Those who want something for hot, dry
dry places, that will take fair care of
themselves, must look out for double
portulacas. There are now double yel-
low, crimson, rose, white, striped, and
other shades; and they come tolerably
true from seed.
| c. T. Thomas, Of Astoria, Oregon, re-
Gently caught salmon, and on opening
it found fine mallard duck. The AS
torian, in reporting the matter, says:
The explanation is that probably the
fish swallowed the duck accidentally as
it was diving, as this is the first instance
recorded. D-t
Mr.. William Haliitt, of Canada, writes
as follows: II am going to give you
| some information. In place of hellebore