Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1886-12-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

her King S., year.
rhiLApEtrhA sign reads; Teeth
pulled while you wait"
oSk-THIRp OF Jay Gould's daily mail 1,
composed OF begging letters
rLArr COUNTY, Ill, has no money in the
treasury and Is four cents In debt
THERE Is strong talk of organizing a
'ea ue OF colored base ball players.
COCAINE was 500 an ounce Now INV
oooy can go crazy on IL at ss an ounce.
iES thousand cattle are killed In Nav
YORK City every week for food purposes
BOY In Tennessee has n mouth which he
can open To the extent of nearly six inches
1T Is said that one-third OF the childrep
OF the Mormons in Utah are outspoken ina
dels.
"A ST. Louis man estimates that N Pull.
man sleeper nets the company $3.50 n
year.
LITTLE bedpost bclls rung by electricity
arc now used To awaken heavy sleepers i'm
Belgium
As much as fifteen cents each in paid for
JACK rabbit scalps by county authorities op
the Pacific Coast.
PRESENT indications point strongly to-
"aru the nomination of Labor Preslden
tiai candidate in 1855
inE Car has decided against compelling
reduction of the sugar production in
order TO improve trade
PETITION in favor OF reviving the Ia.
upon bachelors in France has been present
eu 10 The Chamber of Deputies.
JAY GOULD believes, n the result OF his
own experience, that ''men appreciate their
own earnings more than a gift.n
Doop KNOCKS OF tho old. fashioned kind
are once more appearing on the doors OF
fashionable New York residences.
fRoGREssIvE jack-straw parties are TAX
ing the place of progressive euchre parties
ia iaShionable Louisville society.
BOSTON has coined word for the women
who wear birds plumage upon their hats
ibey are called "birdioidal women
SOME ladies' boots shown I'm n Boston
snop-window arc 500 pair. The buttons
look IKE diamonds, but arn't, of course.
COUNT MoLTKE invariably begins each
d'y with visit TO his wifo's tomb. n
practice no has observed ever since her
death.
FIFTr-oSE emigrants from South Caro-.
INA to Arkansas recently gave the fear OF
the earthquakes as their reasons for de-
parture
THE news comes from Paris that Mrs
their words that her dresses shall not be
duplicated
NEW HAMPSHIRE ministers boycotted the
Governors Thanksgiving proclamation be-
cause IL contained no reference To a Su.
preme Being.
AT the end Of 1877 $50 telephones existed
tho United States, and ut tho end of 1888
there were 325,510 telephones and 7s2 tele-
phonic exchanges.
A COURT in Athens, Ga, had its atten
ton absorbed the other day by suit
brought by one colored girl against an
other for ten cents.
AN ample volume of compilations from
DR.. Talmage's sermons and writings will
shortly be issued under the title of .Sbots
at Sunday Targets"
HEN whose head aud mouth are de-
scribed as being in striking resemblance Of
snakes is classed among the possessions
Of Pensacola (Fla.) man.
JoHS JACoB AsToR is rated at $50 zoo OOO
and is probably the richest man IN Amer
lca- William Waldorf Astor, the ex-Min-
ister TO Italy, is his only son.
TnE stomach OF several cattle which
died near Whitmore, la, were found TO be
lined with mud taken in with the filth,
water they were compelled 10 drink
Mn. +. GOODMAN, aged seventy-six, ana
Mrs. Mary Ireland, aged sixty-eight, OF
Pennington, Ia, had TO run away from
their children in order 20 get married
'THE father OF the forest' in Tulars
County, CAL Is ths iargest tree in the
Stale. IT Is $50 feet high and measures I3s
feet around the trunk. IL IS a chestnut.
THE Emperor William and the EMPRESS
Augusta will hereafter confer medals OF
distinction upon aged couples who
celebrate their golden or diamond we'd
dings.
The locomotive whistle now wakens the
goblins Of Mammoth Cave. The railroad
has got there, and civilization takes formal
possession Of the largest known hole in the
ground.
TIE Indian and Colonial Exhibition lust
closed In London, after having been open
for six months aud half was enormously
successful, its visitors having numbered
6,55O.T4o.
The fact that paper devoted to tricy-
cling published ia London has over n thous-
and female subscribers indicates that the
sport is extremely popular among women
In England.
a Man Of Springfield, ID. T. went 20 sleep
o. the Toadsldc. Wncn he aWOke h9 Wa
sstonished to find that a wagon had run
over his log and broken t. The leg was a
wooden one.
WHKE Mrs. Mabala- Buett Lawrence, Of
Warsaw, n. Y, celebrated her ninetietb
birthday recently FIVE Of the guests were
ladies aged ninety, eighty.nine, eighty
seven, eigbty-three and eighty.
A WESTERN man advertised that he would
for one dollar mail information that would
make food entirely unnecessary. a citizen
| Of Jordan. Canada, sent his dollar, and by
return ma got the directionsi Take a
d Sc Of poison"
Roswell BRARDsLEY, who has bsen post
master ~ North Lansing, TOmpkins Coun-
/ ty. y. Y. since June 1888, is the oldest
| postmaster in toe service. The componsa-
tiou Tor bis service has always remained
the same $3.50 year
tr IS estimated that fully 30 per cent %
/ the worlds ocean tonnage is now in com
mission, against scarcely % per cent a
/ year ago. The tonnage IN dry-dock il al
/ lowed for in both cases.
A DEPOSIT Of pure asphaltum. from hf-
teen to- twenty feet thick, has been discov-
erod near Thistle station, IN Utah. Il is
said TO be worth so ton. and the expense
Of mining is only forty cents