Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1885-11-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

grown, hourishes i'm Florida.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY will leave London
: Tor the Congo, early next year.
The High Sheriff of London recently
gave dinner that cost 5000.
You can take a car at Halifax, y. -. aud
60 to San Francisco by continuous rail.
Coal mining machines have been intro
duced in the river districts at Pittsburgh.
CERTAIN New York tailors threaten TO
publish the names of their negligent custo-
ners.
The increasing use of natural gas has
caused great depression in the price of
coal lands.
w L. PARKS, of Fall River Mass, has
become crazy over the Taber- Downs di-
vorce case.
FANS made of peacock feathers are in
great demand to fasten on walls and place
over pictures
FOREST culture in Dakota has led 10 the
appearance OF birds that were never be-
fore seen there.
Sixty million people speak the German
Language, 5000, 600 the French and 1OO. 900, =
goo the English.
The Marquis of Bute's new castle will
cost as much as the Capitol at Washing
ton-Slo,OOO,OOO. q
IHE Supreme Court of Texas has decid-
ed that will scrawled on a candle box il
legal instrument
The Chilian miners are said To be the
strongest men in the world They live
principally on lentis.
HENRY WARD BEEcHrR believes In =.
graded heaven, and declares this world
mere training school
SENATOR STANFORD, of California. Will
endow university, near San Francisco, to
the amount of $40 900 900.
ULTRA fashionable ladies in New York
are learning to knit stockings, using gold
needles tipped with pearls.
GERMAN locomotive engineer boasts OF
having Travelled over ,250, 900 miles with
out sustaining single accident
CHRISTMAS falls on Friday this year.
friday Christmas is unlucky-for those
who have no money for Christmas presents.
The North, Central and South Ameri
can Exposition" opened at New Orleans
with appropriate ceremonies November 10
Less than one per cent of the bonds Of
the United States are held abroad The
great bulk of them are where thew ought
10 be, at home.
PETITION has been forwarded TO the
Postmaster-Generala asking for better mail
facilities between Mexico, Central and
South America.
NEW YORK lawyer saws II will t.ke
the United States Supreme Court 1873 wears
10 get even with business at the present
rate of progress.
LUcULLUs said oysters Increase the nloot
without heating the system. and DR. Lenac
OF oygone years, declared oysters the most
nourishing of food.
BOSTON physician has given the name
ot tennis elbow TO "A new ailment contract.
ed by persons who devote themselves too
persistently to the game.
GEN. McCLELLAN's mother l. stili alive
In ner eighty fifth year She is an invalid
and In the beginning of the summer she
was not expected to live until autumn.
FROM the annual report of Ge,er,t
Superintendent jameson. OF the Rail,yov
Mail Service, 10 appears that the MILEAGE
increase during the past year was only 4.
0O7 miles. y
DAVID TIFFANY, wel1-to-do for,,o-
Canajoharie, n. Y, died from lockiaw
caused by corhhusker penetratip, bis
hand. Exactly a year ago his son net with
similar fate.
THERE is au Indian in the Cherokee tr,ho
'n tne territory who is nine.v-four vears
OF age and does his own work. This is
chiefly curious as showing that there is an
age at which Indians will work. q:
THE world has lived with human beings
VA 10 good many hundred years now. and
VIC iHlthini wife and mother stIn
ranks hrst among women All other
grades from her rank downward.
THE Arctic plants which a Greelv .ur.
vlVor brought home with him are from six
inches 70 two feet in height and under
mhgnifying glass present n very beautiful
appearance. All but two bear flowers.
~ Pennsylvania girl under ace and
without parents has Q, have n guardio, a..
pointed 10 sign ner request for a mar.
rage license, ia case she wants 20 get mar.
ficd. The proceeding costs fifteen d.iiars
HORSE that feli overheard in Ne,v
YORK hnrDor the other night swain fo,
seven hours. and when rescued st do,yr
munrned bis oats as coutentedIv aa if moth.
ing out of the usual course of event. had
occurred.
IHiNcE AtENANpEH. Of Bulgaria. er.
presses contempt for Russian officers. In.
nfmnch as the Czar has just cancelled the
frincs's commission Ia the Russian army.
AieEandcT's contempt" has n slight asvo,
oi sour grapes.
NAN living 40 Rcd Wing. Mimi. has
fa.rof golden candlesticks which he savs
he dug out of on Indian mound AZ Wan.
kstaa. WIS. and which he thinks are the
s'ldfn candlesticks which formed part Of
'-e decoration Of solomon's Temple.
iht death rate ia Dakota is less than I've
A ile ono thousand. This IS not due -
n-ol ~ tle fact that the climate Of tb.
territory is whoiesomer than that Of otbe,
-a'es aod Territories su 10 the fact trst
'hf setiiers are mostly Young ana vieorov,
l',p'e HIin r future before them.
PAPER Of San Francisco devoted neorlv
nf columns of n recent issue 90 an accouFl
' FOCAL .amo of base baII.
Nfff cases of sev .re nervous shock have
n caused hy boys wearing masks. and
recently. 'n hye, EoelanI. The shock from
is eanse resulted u che death of Ittls
rt lo.tber reason aa tro d,v aftor
noe, lui collapse soon followed.
tHin fsv.r.s cm.ue tiv a di.o,ss N
al'ama. aai .ts greater prevai.nc4 n
oi t1e year s attributed bv