Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1885-10-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

JOHN RUsKrN has twice read his own
obituary.
TENNESSEE ranks first as honey pro.
ducing State.
GEORGIA Is full of trsmps with old straw
hats and linen busters.
RIBBONS with velvet and plush stripes
and with fringes are popular.
JUMBO had heart in him weighing as
much as n two-year old steer.
THREE men were fined for swearing on
the street in Philadelphia the other day.
THE ties for the railroads of America re-
quire nearly 1900 acres of woodland each
year.
FRANK JAMES, tho Missouri desperate,
has been employed as a clerk in Nevada
store.
= Coca does not grow at less than two
thousand feet above the level of the sea on
the Andes
ACANADIAN crank says that il you will
trim your finger nails every Friday vou
will never have the toothache.
THE skull of Douglass, the Ute Indian
war-chief, is used paper weight by the
editor Of the Glenwood Coli Echo.
~YALE's Freshman Glass is the smallest
In many years, containing 135, instead of
lVo members, as was at first reported.
The japanese do not use their own
beautiful tableware; they import their
dishes from England at great expense.
THE Prince of Wales is buying horses.
and viii now race in his own name. Lord
Randolph Churchill will also become
turfman.
A CALIFORNIA farmer keeps 5000 hens.
which he houses in coops built on sleds so
that he can move them about his fields of
wheat stubble.
The Yuma Indians have decided that
white mems trousers are the best thing a
redskin can put on. They are cautivated
10y the hip-pocket.
Col. ROLLINS, of Maine, who was one OF
the most dashing soldiers of the war, was
sent TO prison the other day as vagrant
and common drunkard
A PHILADELPHIA wife wants a divorce
because her husband compelled her 10 take
a scrubbing brush and scratch his back for
half an hour every morning.
FRANCE lost 1900 men in the Tonquin
campaign, and her losses in money, includ-
ing the cost OF building forts hospitals and
frontier defences, were Sl25, 100000.
10 take his place on the stage and for every
actor who makes $1,000 per year, a hun
dred are dead broke four days out of seven.
IN codicil to his will Victor Hugo left
$4,000 to the poor OF Paris, but neglected
70 sign 1t. The executors aud heirs. how
e-@r, dHeidsd to treat It. as legalizei be-
quest.
GOVERNMENT ukase has oeen issued
ordering all Russian Governors and other
officers throughout the provinces 10 use the
Russian language exclusively in their ofii
cial duties.
SPECIAL Timber Agent Haley reports
that forestry 20 the vilue Of over $500, 600
has been cut throughout the Northwest. at
the instigation OF the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company.
NORTHERN ARKANSAS and Southern Mis-
souri, are said 90 be attracting many immi-
grants from the Eastern country now.
Next TO these regions comes Kansas as an
immigranting State.
MAJOR POWELL. OF the Geological Sur
vey, has discovered in New Mexico. near
California Mountains, what ne pronouucps
to be tho oldest human habitntions upon
the American continent
MISS SHIELDS, teacher i'm the Indian
school at Carlisle Pa, announces that the
Indians are "a noble loving race Of men.
whose religion is simple and true" This
will be news 10 most people.
THE coast Of Stratford. Conn. is grndu
ally rising. The land about n certain
school-house, which used to be overAown
in pedigree tide, Is now covered by per-
mnnent green sward, above the water
level.
A TRAMP arrested for vagrancv nj North
Cambridge, Mass, had 1924 in bis pockets.
If tramps get tho reputation Of carrvin,
much money about with them. they viii bc
subjected 90 much annoyance from police
men and others.
IHE japanese authorities are mnking OK.
perimonts in the way of subsfitutiu- tho
Roman alphabet Tor their japanese char
acters. The japanese are centuries ahead
of tho Chinese in their adaptation 90 the
progress of modern times.
HoHoEEv will attempt to regulate tb.
roller rinks by closing thom at q O'Clock
T.. M, prohibiting the sale of liauor in
them and excluding Of po-s.blol minors
from the halls when adults arc Boa posses.
sion Of tho skating floors
1T is said tho Labrador fisheries nave
proved almost a complete failure. Cod and
mackerel have disappeared and prryies
have been so scarce that the oh factories
have had % close down. Much SUFFERING
exists among tho populnce
MAJOR J. W POWELL, in speaking nrour
prehistoric America. says that boa his opir.
ION there has never been presented ore
item Of evidence that the mound builder
were people Of culture superior to that