Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1889-10-02
CEREDO, WAYNE CO. W. VA. WEDNESDAY OCTOBI
CURRENT TOPICS.


for . shine.
DOC has boon arrested In baltimore
- n common thief.
A WEST VIRGINIA town of $50 inhab-
itants has is9 dogs.
TxcnE is post-ofiicc in Sharon Coun-
ty. Mo-, called Not.
GENERAL SHERMAN says no will attend
no moro soldiers reunions.
KANSAS boasts city whore thcro was
cornficld three years ago.
THE German Emperor has given his
portrait to Lord Salisbury.
In Franco tho government runs the
tobacco and match business.
A BosroN hotel advertiscs that IL is
near to Phillip Brooks church.
FIsu have been caught in the Gulf Of
California at n depth OF l, 400 feet.
IN tho Belman (Mcx.) prison are fifty-
tour murderers condemned TO death.
AMERIcA has 600, 600 tclephones-moro
than the rest of tho world combined.
GERMANY is making steel fly wheels.
They do double tho speed of cast iron.
AN Ohio man has written Jay Gould n
begging letter every day for tho last 450
days.
ESoLIsu noblcmen arc beginning to
invest largely In real estate in Aus
tralia.
TuEnE Is mulo in Cambridge, o.,
sale 70 be forty-scven years old and still
gotd worker.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WASANtAKER
is planning 20 reduce the size OF tho
postage stamp.
LirE is still worth living. There Is
only ono lawyer in tho country to every
nino hundred persons.
TmRrY-rIvE thousand Spaniards last
year cmigrated TO South America, and
ten thousand TO Algeria.
A DANDELroS which has grown to the
top OF ten-foot pole Is tho product OF
New Haven truck patch.
MASSACHUSETTS seems TO have anoth-
or Jessie Pomeroy on hand. Its latest
murderer Is eight years old.
A BALL of fire that exploded when
within few feet OF the ground is said
to have fallen in bridgeport, Conn.
House. servants can not be had I'm
Pueblo, Col, for loss than $50 or S35
month, and they arc scarce at that
figure.
A MAN OF Norristown, Pa, was unable
TO land sixtccn-pound carp that he
caught, and called friopd who shot II
on the wing.
THE widow OF General Custer owns a
small rustic cottage and fcw acres OF
land in beautiful region near tho Della
ware Water Gap.
The King and Queen OF Greece have
seven children, the youngest year old.
The Princess Alexandria IS very pret-
ty girl OF nineteen.
An English plasterer has boon stag.
gered with fortune OF Rl. 400, 900. left
TO him by n clergyman who cmigratod
and prospered in Sydney.
BUFFALO BILL has become so fas.
cinated with Paris that he Is inclined 10
make that city his homo when he aban.
dons his calling as Snowman.
EMPERoR WILLIAM, of Germany, has
subscribed 10000 francs 60 the fund fol
the relief OF tho sufferers by tho rcccn,
explosion and fire at Antwerp.
The house in which Oliver Wendell
Holmes was born is still standing on the
common at Cambridge, Mass, and is
now ono Of the college buildings.
Mr.. KOo, OF the Chinese Legation al
Washington, is going home 20 marry a
Chinese girl he has never seen. Koo Is
nice, domestic, affectionato name.
Mn. Edison has been granted 4O5 pat
ents on his inventions, and has over
three hundred applications pending.
Most OF these are electrical devices.
ADvKETIsEAENTs in London journals
indicate that tho purchase OF cast-oh
court suits, artificial teeth, etc, 'for ex.
port, Is quito a considerable business
TIE cotton manufacturers OF Ian.
cashirc, England, propose 10 close all
their mills for fortnight, in hope that
such action will destroy the corner In
cotton.
JUSTICE FIELD has presented Narle,
who he considers saved his life by shoot
ing Judge Terry, with a magnificent
gold watch and chain appropriately on.
graycd.
TBE death OF Wiixic Collins has boon
long expected. The intense vitality OF
the man protractcd the struggle much
longer than his physicians had doeraod
possible.
n. VI FLAoLEn, tho STANDARD oil
magnatc, who owns the finest private car
on whools, has sust given orders for the
most magnificent steam yacht that csn
be built.
Two coal dealers az Port Huron bid
exactly the same figures for supplying
the city with 600 tons of coal. and then
they tossed a cent to SEQ which should
have the contract.
PETEg DTEDoFF, Of Brooklyn, put a
stone on the sidewalk and covered n
with an old hat. Mrs FranMnmuth
came along and gave 60 kick. and her
broken toes cost Peter $3.50.
A NEw York police sergeant was re-
tired on pension the other day who had
I been on the force twenty-seven years.
and In that time bad never lost day on
account Of sickness or been fined for mis-
conduct.
ANONG the smart old people in Dex.
I ter, Ne, are Mrs. Phoebe Moore Camp
bell, who will celebrate her tOist birth.
/ day October 10 next, and Mr. Charles
Roncoc, 100 years old last March. Both
enjoy good health. and Mrs. Campbell
had a handsome quilt. finished since her
I Tooth birthday, ON exhibition at the
Easton. No. fair this year
Az interesting discovery is said 20