Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-11-25
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THE world uses daily $500 600 steel
pens
A BosroN alderman is paid O salary
OF 81, 500 year.
NEARLY IS, 900 pensions were granted
during October.
SLossoN's profits on the billiard
match were over 81. 0oo
PAINE VS.. Bliss" Is the title of a law
case reported in tho Boston papers
A rURNIP is on exhibition In Grand
Rapids that weighs twenty -four pounds
The American pig will soon be parad-
Ing the Austrian markets with a proud
curl in his tail
VIRGINIA has fully Is, ooO 600 acres Of
srable land lying idle. 1t is owned by
large landholders
The phosphate mines near Charles
ton, 5. C, have in use the largest steam
shovel in the world.
AT the Boston flower show forty va
rieties of chrysanthemums were named
for Ruth Cleveland.
The recent progress in railroading
shows that the wooden ties must soon
give way to those of steel
CHICAGO has followed New York in
opening an art institute on Sunday.
The result was great success
No RAIN has fallen in Alden, Egypt,
since three years ago, when n drought
OF twenty six years was broken
LENT begins forty days before Easter
The latter will occur in 1892 on April
IL. II occurred in 1891 on March 90
THE Chicago physicians have unapi-
mously Endorsed the bicycle as afford
ing proper and healthful exercise for
women.
The next New York legislature will
contain as members of the lower
house two nephews of the late Senator
Conkling.
The recent improvements in electric
motors would seem to indicate that the
days of cable and horse railroads are
drawing to close.
OF the 500. 600, 900 persons who were
carried last year on steam vessels but
sixty-f were killed. This shows that
this means of travel is the safest in the
world
A NOTED American physician in Paris,
DR.. Pratt, has died lately of great pow
erty. He had lived in great luxury upon
one OF the most lucrative practices In
Europe.
IN London the number of paupers is
smaller than it has been since 1857.
Roughly, about IS, 900 paupers were re.
heved In the metropolis each week dur
ing August
APPLES weighing three pounds each
have been grown in Southern Califor-
MIA and apples that weigh two pounds
and half are so common Us to excite
no comment.
a MANeRovE plant has been success
FULLY grown in the University of Penn
sylvania- Hitherto it has been found
impossible to grow this plant away
from the ocean.
THE Choctaw council has passed an
act which will have the effect of max
ing Negroes from the states, who seek
bpromised land, go to some other coun-
Try than that nation.
IT is announced that the ladies of
Tacoma have organized a rainy-day
club with view of inducing its
members on rainy days to wear skirts
which reach only TO the ankle.
hIGEL, the magnificent star of the
first magnitude in the constellation of
Orion, has recently been discovered bv
astronomers to be one of the most dis
tant stars in the celestial vault.
a GEBAUER, of Bridgeport, CT, has
issued challenge to any person in the
United States to meet him in an egg
eating contest. He is prepared TO back
himself to the amount of 81, 200.
THE tallest three trees in the world
are believed to be a sequoia, near
Stockton, Cal, which is S25 feet high,
and two eucalyptuses, in Victoria. Aus.
tralia, estimated to lie 435 and $50 re-
spectively.
VI lSI counties in the state of Geor-
gia only nineteen show "a decrease in
population between 1850 and 1890. The
entire population Of the state increased
from 1882, $50 in 1880 to !. s37. 1853 in
1890 an increase of 10. IA per cent.
THERE is man in AshevilIe, n. C..
named C. Il. Bryson, who is 90 venrs
old, and claims to be quite a youth vet
as his father is still living and very
sprightly at %. His grandfather was
ll5 and his great-grandfather was ITO
BRAZIL was trying to escape n lottery
incubus when the recent revolution
broke out. The Rio News says the senti-
ment in Brazil is that lotteries are inn
moral and demoralizing and the cause
of vice and impoverishment among the
masses.
The Princess Marguerite. known as
the most beautiful aud most religions
woman connected with the imperial
family Of Austria, and Abbess Of the
community Of noble ladies, is recover.
ing from an illness that had threatened
her life.
The late Gordon L. Ford. OF Brook.
iyn, was poor boy in Connecticut who
went % work at the age of fourteen
after picking up a slight education. lie
soon began 20 collect books. and now
has left the largest private library in
Brooklyn.
HAEHiET HosNgH, who was expected
% leave Rome 40 about this time for
Chicago, has been obliged 20 DELAY her
departure But the completion OF her
studies Of Queen Isabella and Abraham
Lincoln FOR the worlds fair will not bo
delayed in consequence.
AccoRDIsG 90 an author there ia a
very astonishing curiosity in Tbibet in
the shape Of plant that flies. II re.
sem bies dog in shape. is the color Of
a tortOIa e-oiaU and t- .-~-.. s. -