Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1886-12-16
CURRENT TOPICS.


ON items for pet dog
PRAIRIE fires have deyast.tsa axooooo
acres in Texas this year.
CoSSEcricur has 20 7,4 49,. :.
ground under cultivation.
| NINE pearl peas. in n half-open goia.,
poo, make new hair-pin.
| SNOW is lying two and one-half feet d..n
IN portions OF New Hampshire =, E 4. =
is Lehigh County, Pa, turkeys ar, driv ven
10 market in drovcs, like cattle.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND saved about sos :
w. from his first years salary.
TnE Austrian governments has prohibi,-
ed the american game OF poker L
SUNSET" Cox says it Is like b.ins T.,
PARADISE to get back TO America.
1HioAeo has toboggan slide 700 feet
long and Brooklyn one 200 feet high.
A MAN In Newfoundland claims to hnx.
0A.snta Goldfish weighing he pouuds 80.
KEEN Charlcstonian is selling a. mpls.
OF earthquake sand for twsntv-f3vr ~ ~.
lHE Prince of Wales has set the fashion
oi wearing wide and curly brimmed hats
IN England
SUBSCRIPTION has boon started tor the
s,ection OF monument over the grave OF
PARSONS, the condemned Chicago Anar.
cnist' Is employing his time In prison wri-
ting political novel.
SIXTY sacks of delayed mail were re-
ceivcd at Deadwood, Oak, by the first stsrs
after the recent storm.
SEkrAiN phrases are peculiar to certa,.
times Of the year The one that Is season
able now is ''Shut that doorlp ~ fArr
NHwsPApERs which boa sstfulIv cali them.
selves family journals" 4" publish the Conn
Campbell nsstiness in all its details
JOHN fErER RICHARDSON, Govrrnor of
south Carolina, is the fifth member of his
family who has been elected 10 that Office.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD says that the people
OF New York pay 100000 annually for re-
cording the surplus words In their mort
cages. k wE
iHK Musquakie Indians, whose reser,.-
walton OF 1900 acres is situated about
three miles West of Tama City, Ia, num-
ber 400.
THERE is blind boy in Brooklyn who
taxes dictation on a typewriter faster than
any known expert in the possession OF good
eyesight.
IHE receipts of cotton at Norfolk, Va now
average over 5000 bales per day, and the
season is expected to DO the heaviest ever
experienced there.
ALL the prehistoric sepulcbrss in Mexico
are now doomed to Dissertation A solid
gold idol weighing flty pounds has been
found in one of them.
THE German Reichstag proposes TO sub
stitute for dueling the casting OF lots, the
loser to 90 quietly off by himself aud care
fully commit suicide.
Two thousands yards of flannel have
been given to the aged poor of Derry. N.
d., this fall, according to the bequest Of the
late Sylvanus Brown.
ALvAS CLARKE, the venerable and fa-
nous telescope maker OF Cambridge IA
eighty-two years of age, but hale and
hearty, and works regularly.
KING HCMBERT, OF Italy, has sent 20
President Cleveland a copy OF toe edition
OF bsnte recently printed for Victor EN-
manuel, Italian Prince Royal 80
A GooD-sIzED hog which jumped over-
board in Lake Erie when the steamer was
mile of the shore landed In a little over
an hour in pretty good condition.
STALE bread may be made 20 renew its
youth and become almost as palatable as
fresh bread by relocating IL In a covered
dish to prevent undue loss of moisture.
PLowISo aud skating are both going on
in North Dakota. Tns weather this fall
has been 80 dry that the frost can not get
into the ground, it being thus left loose for
the plow.
FLBTINe with ,servsut girls has led to
the dismissal OF ono Now Brunswick IN.
J. police officer, and several other mem
bers Of the force are awaiting trial on the
same charge.
THE lady who did the whirlpool in bar
rel is not In receipt OF many offers from
museum managers There has been over
production in the Niagara navigating in
dustry of late.
The King of Holland is an adnnirer Of
American institutions He heats his palace
at Amsterdam wiLb an American base
burning coal stove. and he has hissye on q
tin e1g-poscher. ~
CALrFoRSiA Is said 70 have seat 90, 600
tons OF grapes to the East this season.
The total crop is est mated ~ i7s, GOO tons,
worth on an average $50 ton, or 81, 5GO..
900 In the aggregate.
EXPERIENCE shows that in every case
where women have taken an active part ia
the Socialistic campaign their speeshss
have been more innammstory than those
OF the male sgitstorE
AN iron tower four hundrsd aud forty
feet high will be erected At the cop OF OK
ford street. London, % commemorate the
Queens Jubilee. The contracts have been
concluded and the work will be begun in
January.
IT is said, on toe susbcfity OF au old cir.
Gus man. that since the Charleston earth
quake there is no money in the show busi-
ness IN the South ghst ths co5ored people
have taken entirely to campmestings aud
religious revivals
DEFK0T has b-en discovered ln the con.
struction OF the Bartholdi statue, says the
Chicago TribUne. There IL no way by
which long icicle can be removed from
the end Of her nose except BY shooting ~
10 from tho pedestal with gun.
JonS MkcKAT is said 10 hsve lately
squeezed 81 10000 out OF San Francisco
mining stock operators. Ne caaCht three
big operators short Of 20,0o0 shares apiece
Of Consolidated Virginia and gave them
such twist A. has not been known IN
tho California speculative camp IN many
year.
THEY say n woman can not keep a secret
but a commercial traveller Is under arrest
Ia Washington charged With marrying =
whole family Of sisters without Losing one
know his relations 20 the others
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