Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1889-10-09
CURRENT TOPICS

TiE richest maiden in California IL
Miss Jennie Flood.
ENcELLENr brown paper can now be
made out of peat fiber.
TnE national silver convention will
meet at st. Louis November ~.
SAN FRANCISCO has a home for girls
out of work, started by Mrs Crocker.
DIR. NANsES, the Norwegian explorer,
Is about to set out for the North Pole.
TuE King OF Italy recently visited tho
tomb OF Garibaldi and placed upon it y
wreath.
AN Alabama man Is beating the lia-
uor law by running y "nickel-in-thc-
SLOT bar.
A TEN foot rattlcsnakc was killed by
Captain Frank Myatt, Of Charleston, ).
c.. the other day.
BECAUSE of the busy season tho cx-
Confederate reunion at Meridian. Miss,
will be postponed
FIFTEEN thousand bushels of cranbcr-
rics will be picked from one New Jersey
plantation this year.
A FoRrY-ruREE-AcRE vineyard within
mile OF Fresno. Cal, sold few days
ago for $1,000 an acre.
GOVERNOR FIrznUoH LEE Is growing
so stout that he is barely able TO mount
horse without assistance.
BETWEEN Vienna and Prague, dis
tace of $50 kilomcters, a telephone
service has been established.
DURING the last twelve months tho
number OF cigarettes manufactured in
this country was 2,151 ,5I2, $50.
MISS LINCOLN, daughter of Minister
to England Robert Lincoln. has become
the acknowledged belle in London.
BuNcH of celery containing twelve
stalks has just been gathered at Kala-
mazoo. IL weighed thirty-fivc pounds.
HASDKERcIrEF in the possession of
the Empress Of Russia Il said to have
cost $500. II took seven years to make
It,
REV. JOHN FARNIIAM, OF Charlotte, n.
c., wears number 35h shoe, which re-
quires sole 20 inches long and Z inches
broad
CAPTAIN KNUDsEN, OF the ill-fated
steamer Danmark, is now I'm command
of the new Thingvalla line steamer
Norge.
ACCORDING To the latest official state
ment, the contributions for the relief
OF tho Johnstown sufferers aggregate
81, 500, 900.
II. NJ. VAN AUKEN, OF Leadville, Col,
has invented device which, he claims,
will do away wholly with buttons and
buttonholes.
HERR BoTEI, a wonderful tenor, Is
fascinating the audiences at tho Krall
Gardens, Berlin. He was coachman
not long ago.
BALFoUR, who ia called ''the best
hated man in England" is still young.
He was born in 1s4s and went 90 Parlia-
ment in 1874.
a SILVER dollar OF 17p5, almost as
bright as the day it was coined, was
found buried in a boat-yard at Yardly,
Pa. few days ago.
AT a recent fair In San Luis Obispo
County, Cal, an onion was shown that
had girth OF twenty-six inches and
weighed seven pounds.
"A CALIFORNIA newspaper speaks OF
Kansas City as 'an Eastern city" II is
little things like this that help us 70
appreciate our yastness
The blowing OF any kind of a steam
whistle in Washington City is "A punish
able offense and in tho future the law
will be strictly enforced.
a WRITER who has made tho search
asserts that our language contains no
less than SIT different terms expressive
'of the state OF being in love.
An army OF black, gray and red squir-
rels has been passing southwark over
the mountains and valleys OF Clinton
County, Pa, for some time.
TIM Evangelical Alliance for the
F.IN Nx.I II
ing In fremont Temple, Boston, the 4th,
5th and 9th OF December next.
RoBT. II. TERRKLL, the negro appoint
ed Chief OF Division in the Fourth Aud
itor's Office Of the Treasury Department,
Is graduate Of Harvard University.
THE Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill doubling the length Of the school
term and increasing the appropriation
accordingly. This will give six months
school.
lr is understood that Mr.. and Mrs.
Morton have concluded 20 make Wash
ington their permanent homo, and do
not expect 70 occupy their New York
house again.
THE tide Of Chinese immigration TO
ward tho East Is growing % an alarm
ing extent, and scarcely day passes
without q crowd Of Chinaman en- route
20 the large cities this side the Missis-
sippi
THE increase Of value in real estate
and personal properties in Tennessee
during the past three years Is figured at
ono hundred million dollars, unprece-
dented in the history Of any State in the
Union.
doHN JAcOB AsTOR died worth so.
900, after beginning on a salary of
- a week for beating furs ia = damn
cellar. The go, O00, 900 left by him in
1889 has grown in forty years 70 sgOO,.
OOO, 900.
THg Rhode Island Supreme Court. fol
lowing the Indiana Supreme Court. has
decided that bicycles are vehicles or ear
riaRes in the meaning Of the law. Tho
case came before them in case ingolv.
ing their duty to keep 20 the right on
meeting another vehicle or carriage.
REroRr comes by way Of tho Utah
commission that polygamy issolemnizcd
clandestinely In many parts of the ter
ritory in spite Of all the efforts Of tbs
Government
LITTLE King Alexander, Of Servia. A.