Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1886-12-23
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shot eighty rabbits In one day.
The wife of Prince Komatsu of lima,
dresses in the height OF fashion.
AT Queen Victoria's table there is ALWAYS
one servant to every two guests
ONE of Martha wasbington's ietters sold
ss auction not long since for si5i.
NINE. PATTI was offered 5000 night 70
sing In concerts In South America
Miss SUSAN b. ANTHONY is i'm washinr.
Ton 10 Dying for woman's suffrage.
CINCINNATI is promised a large reduction
In the price Of gas In the near future
ESTERPHIsrso Kansas City gentlemen ara
preparing an elaborate tobcggan slide.
A sIsrER-IS-LAw Of Abraham Lincoln |.
postmistress in a little Kentucky town.
CHARLES GARDINER, OF INDIANAPOLIS
dressed ten sheep in thirty seven minutes
MRS. BELvA LOCKWOOD declines I'm adj
vance denomination for the Presidency
In 1885
MARY HARPER, a Cleveland servant girl.
has Inherited $3.50 ooo from a re atiye e.,
Philadelphia.
DUELIsTs fought a lovers quarrel oppos-
ite Trenton. N. j. Each was wounded i'm
the shou der
DUDES need not fear the decline OF the
standing collar. IL Is as universal as ever
In "Lonnon"
1T takes conservative families n long
time TO become reconciled TO the SQUARE
dinnsr plates.
FOLLOWING the example OF New York.
Philadelphia has elected a woman 10 its
Board OF Education.
81. LOUIS merchants are moving for rapid
mail transit between that city and the
West and North west.
A FIFTEES-rEAR-oLD boy OF westneld.
Mass, rode l3,40S miles on a ffty-two-irch
bicycle the past year.
LIBEL comes cheap in Little Rock. Twen.
ty-nve dollars was all jury could lind In a
case against the Democrat
GRANITE monument has been placed
over the grave of John b. Cough In Hope
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass
THE Kentucky blue grass section raises a
greater number OF turkeys than any other
part OF the United States.
LINCOLN COUNTY, N. NJ, is leo miles
long 1t contains over 1000 square miles,
or about Ia, ,0o0, O00 acres
OMAHA wants to bear Patti, but not 1900
worth which was the guarantee fund ask
ed Only 500 was subscribed
MORE and more are United States Sena.
tors buying houses In Washington. Sena-
tor Vest is the latest purchaser.
JOHN LUCE, of Sohoharie, New York died
leaving bequests amounting TO $3.50, 700, but
his sole wealth only footed up $23.
1T is said that ex-Queen Isabella still
ciings to the hope that she will some day
again be seated on the throne OF Spain.
PRor. WOODROW, OF th Presbyterian
seminary. Columbus, y. c., has been dis
missed on account of belief in evolution.
IHE Germans have managed to reduce by
ABOUT seven pounds the weight which each
soldier is compelled to carry in a campaign
ONE who claims to have counted says
there are in the Bible {, $50. .4S3 letters. 773.-
Tvs words, 81 S73 verses, and /, le9 chapters
THERE are 1881 convicts on the chain
gang OF Georgia-5i females 40 colored. IL
white), 16l white males and the rest col.
ored.
ALL children have not become sceptics.
letter, addressed to Santa Claus, Clarion.
Pa, has been dropped in the Clarion post
Office.
A GRENADA, Miss, couple Is enjoying the
mixed sensation Of n marria ge in fun which
the law uufeelingly regards as a marriage
In earnest.
Sunset Cox Is now serving bis twenty.
seventh year In Congress, having represent
cd In bis time the two great States OF Ohio
and New York
FoURTEES United States Senators have
their sons serving them in the capacity of
committee clerks or private secretaries, at
six dollars per day.
a FRENCH officer has invented a repeat
ing rihs which can be loaded with seven
cartridges in ten seconds and completely
discharged in four.
IT is to he determined by n suit at law
whether the death Of Fat man incarcerated
In the Carlyle, Ill, Jail was not hastened
by lack Of ventilation.
THE Children's Aid Society, Of New York
City, has since its foundation in 1855, placed
90 90 Of the outcast and orphan children i'm
weil-cbosen country bomos
The Government chemist OF New Zea.
land is reported to have proven that tue
dust of the recent volcano eruption is Of
great value as a fertilizer
IT is no uncommon thing for the Presi-
dent 70 shake hands with twelve brides In
one day. He never kisses any body under
the rank Of first lady in the land
WAsHTo1ON society - torn up over tlie
question OF social precedence, tho struggle
for precedence being between the wives Of
Senators and those OF Cabinet officers.
CAMILLE FLANHARIoN declares that a.
soon as the powerful Lick glass shall be
turned upon Mars there will be discovered
clear evidences as to animal life on that
planet.
A NUMBBR Of whales have boep beached
at the whaling station at San Diego, and IL
is considered quite tho thing to DO photo
graphed wbf1e sitting on one Of the huge
carcasses.
NJ. GOBLET Il the name Of the new French
| Premier. IL Is 70 be hoped that NJ Goblet
may always be filled 20 the brim with that
| spirit Of public devotion which cheers but
not inebriates.
a BILL is pending before the General
/ Assembly OF Georgia 60 prohibit tho issu-
| ing, accepting or using OF free railroad
/ passes by Legislators and Stale House and
| Judicial officers
| A PERSON who lately visited the ex-Em.
press Eugene, says she has grown so old.
that any one who has not seen her for ten
years would not recognize her u she snOu4d
pass by In the street
A oAT, not lik ne the new home az Green
field. n. S., 70 which che bad been removed.
took her six kittens and walked with them
| hack to her former home at 81 ton. dis