Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1886-01-07
CURRENT TOPICS.
NJ. Pa-rEuR's father was a tanner.

S'N TALL " Is said. submits drafts
thnn
rnE Sultan OF Turkey owing To hard
t'mes' mas reduced the number of his wives
to 80.
rtE eldest daughter of Mrs Kate Cha..
formerly Mrs. Spraguel, is preparing for
the stage
iHE total amount of mileage paid to
senators and Representatives i'm Congress
is $4,000.
@ERrlE REviN, westmoreland County
r"-' sirl sent President Cleveland IA Christ
mas turkey.
fuE frnit trees in Santa Barbara are be-
ing o|nS up and English walnuts planted in
thefi stead
No fewer than 10000 cattle chew the cud
on ex-senator Dorsey's ranch in Colfax
County, " NJ.
4 NEVADA man has raised three kit,sns
that lac obtained from the nest of a wild c,t
that he had killed.
| \ MoiiNoS who was accidentally killed ip
| ctnh tba other day left sixty-seven child.
ren 70 mourn his loss
| RECENT discoveries prove that the art of
wood engraVngs originated with the Arabs
about the ninth century.
FRoN o0,o00 to 5000 people cross tn.
brooklyn Bridge every day in the cars
While about ll,0OO walk over
tiiE late John Landon Siblev. Librarian
OF Harvard, courted his sweetheart for
twenty years before he married her
EDITOR CHLDs, OF the PHILADELPHIA Led.
| gee, is estimated to be worth s.. .OooO Ooo Ana
he Is as generous and noble as he is wealthy
II has been decided to admit the new
words "bulldozing, +" boycott" and s.duden
n'o Vne new edition OF Webster's Dioion.
ary.
rLAPCEs on which is a snow scene includ-
| ing church with real clock i'm the to,Ver
were among the newest exhibits Of the holi
days.
A RUSTIC visitor 20 Burlington, VT. spen,
thanksgiving Day on the horse railway,
making the "TRIP OF four miles twenty-five
| times.
| IHK Illinois militia will be oonsolida ted
into six regiments of infantry. one bat
TALON OF cavalry and two batteries OF ar
tillery.
t1iASK V. ADAMS, an Omaha clerk. m
| shred his life for $1,000, the other day. in
( behalt OF his friends, and then committed
suicide.
! 'NhL s"uies VINO uoh ike their height
may console themselves with the fact that
the handsomest woman in Italy stands
nesrly seven feet high
| FEnDISAND WARD has changed his local
! ny and not his business. He is still on
/ gagged in keeping the books this time for
the Sing Sing contractors.
CoMAoDoRE VASDEHBiLr's sound advice
to his son William was Don't YOU ever
1 sell anNfHfng
anything you can't pay for"
The demand for copies Of the Presidents
message exceeds that for any former Presi-
Dental message. A fourth edition has been
printed, and q fifth is contemplated
TnE value Of the pig iron produced in
tnls country during the past year was over
| t'5,OO,OOO or nearly the value OF the out
put OF both the gold aud the silver mines
| II is common thing among the people
| OF Dutch Guiana 70 inocculste themselves
with snake poison to guard against the
bites OF poisonous serpents that iufest that
country
| CHKMATioS will soon be practiced in the
| fere La Chaise Cemetery, Paris The city
has just given contract for the erection
OF building with apparatus for the in.
cineration Of bodies.
| ~ - rthtfu III consequence Oi the net
Treasury balance increasing 10y above a.
| 10000 in December. Secretary Manning
conteuplntes making call for three per
cent. bonds in January
LoED CnAHLE- THYNNE. uncle of the
Marquis of Bath was priest and canon Of
Canterbury Cathedral He resigned his
Prefeiment in is53 and now. in hi. nd year.
has entered the Catholic priesthood
NINETY cigars in two hours was the test Of
q record by an Orlando (Cal) man who en-
deavored % smoke himself into fame and
some cash II + said that he lost only
on the ninetieth cigar. which sickened him.
" - understood 20 be- Queen Victoria =
pleasure that the jubilee Of her reign sbould
not be celebrated until the completion of
hity years from her ascension That
period viii be accomplished on June ~
is9.
~ is believed that IN ten years Ysnkton,
| -. r. viii be an inland town. In front os
Tho city. where the river ran twenty feet
deep five years ago, there are now one hun
dred acres of land SIX feet above high wster
mark
EN-SrSAIoH DAVID DAVIS is reported 10
have prepared a volume of memoirs. % he
published after his death. In which he
| htdheH some interesting revelations regard
ing various public personages In snd out q
Congress
PREsTDENI SEELiE ~ Amherst College.
says that u girls would run every day they
would never die of consumption
Nv. JANEs X. SHIELDS. formerly con.
nected with the Ford Piate-gisss Company
Of Jeffersouville Ind has organized q
company 20 start plate glass works ~
| Butler. Pc These viii be the eighth In the
| United States
ALssKs is now civilized country sitka.
is chief town, enjoys al the great ele
/ ments that 60 toward building upn e
Western town She enjoys q saloon a
Nongolian going by the eupboneous name
of Ah SOte. runs restaurant n brewery
and newspaper called The MGst0au
have also made their appearance
MONTREAL n 20 have bigger ice palace
than ever this year IL b. i52 feet long and
lii feet wide. The principal feature is the
/ great donjon tower which rises nearly in
the center. IL is tO be thirty three feet in
diameter aud something over 100 feet in
height At each angle of 10 rise machico.
lated towers three ~ eight fees iu disine.
tei sud cue of eleven feet