Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-10-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

without school room.
The prophets declare that the COM
ing winter will be long and cold.
RUSSIA has finally concluded not to
go in for international copyright.
Mr. CLEvELAND's revised editions
Liberty, Equality and Paternity"
SoUAsHEs weighing ESQ TO 500 pounds
are common in Southern California
MORE cigarettes are sold in Texas
than in any other state of the union.
A CEYLoN tea planter is in California
with plan to raise Ceylon tea there.
The New York supreme court up
holds the law against the dangerous
car stove.
MELBOURNE wants to sell his rain
producing secret to the government for
81, 600, OoO
CoLoRADoANs believe that that state
will before long rival California even in
its fruit-growing resources
CONNECTICUT last year took out more
patents in proportion to population thar
any other state in the union.
WHEN Edison gets his new electric
cars a-going we can bid trolley-la TO
the deadly system now in vogue.
LOUIS KossUTH, the Hungarian pat
riot, has just entered his ninetieth year
He Is in fair health in his Italian home,
AMATEUR hunters are having no trou-
bic finding deer in the Adirondacks this
season. The animals are unusually
tame.
THE food allowed to sailors in the
American navy is better than that
furnished in any other navy in the
world.
MEXICO has n rock that serves as
weather prophet by changing color
with every approaching change in the
weather.
SECRETARY FosTER's portrait has just
been painted for the treasury depart
ment by Miss Blanche +. King, young
Washington artist.
GREEN boughs of the eucalyptus trees
are said to be among the best disin-
fectants known for a room where
scarlet fever exists
PERFUME lamp, which burns CO.
logne and spreads pleasant scent
about the room, is among the late
household novelties.
The proposed suspension bridge
across the Hudson at New York city
will be nearly mile and a half long
outside the approaches.
CAPT Il. j. CROMWELL has been or
dered to the command of the Norfolk
navy yard, being detached from the
League Island navy yard.
FLORIDA. which was not represented
at the centennial at Philadelphia in
1876, will raise 500, 600 for its display
at the Chicago exhibition.
IN the 5000 900 letters that reached
the dead letter Office last year there
was money amounting to S2s 642 and
checks and notes of the value of 81, AL
S7i.
MRS. HANNAH r. RANDALL, n Rhode
Island woman of 90, has just made a
journey across the continent to San
Francisco. It was her seventh excur-
sion of the kind.
BoULANGER was once under contract
with an American manager to take n
lecture tour of the United States but
was dissuaded from the purpose by the
Duchesse dues
THE fishing industry in Saginaw bay
has been almost distinguished owing to
the refuse matter from saw mills and
salt blocks. which kills the young on
the spawning grounds.
HE largest sheet or pane of glass in
the world, Is set in the front of a build
ing on Vine street, Cincinnati, o. Il
was made in Marseilles France, and
measures 1s6x1O4 inches
They are planning in England to es-
tablish an agricultural school for worn-
en-, in which especial attention viii be
paid TO teaching dairy work and the
raising and taking care of poultry.
PROP. II. w. $. CLEVELAND, of Min
neapolis, has an autograph letter of
Benjamin Franklin informing the post
master in Boston that he should not ex-
emPt governors from paying postage
JOSEPH TAPER, Negro. gave pecu-
liar reason for trying to hang himself
in Pittsburgh the other day. He is
row l07 years old, and ne had given up
the hope of ever dying in the natural
way.
TIE powerful chloro-c chronic battery
is now used in miners lamps in France.
Inc lamp and battery weigh about the
same as the old oil lamps. The light is
much stronger and the cost is very mod
crate.
The three tallest trees in the world
are believed 70 be sequoia near Stock
tohf Nai.' WIlcn IS 30 feet high, and
two cucalypu in Victoria. Australia.
estimated TO be 435 and $50. respec-
lively.
ALTHOUGH 81 is now nearly sixty
years since Charles Lamb died the
little cottage in which he and his
sister resided AT Edmonston shows
but slight evidence OF any external
change.
Miss MARY DICKENS. the novelist's
favorite daughter lives in a pleasant
suburb Of London She is a woman
past middle age. but preserves a vivac-
ity Of manner that makes her appear
much more youthful
ACCORDING 90 Herr Japinr. the hour.
" rate Of water falling over Niagara
Falls is 100000 600 tons. representing
100000 horse power. and the total
daily production OF coal i'm the world
would just about suffice % punp the
water back again
Bound BEooE. y. j.. man who
sneezed so badly as 90 fracture rim
has been notified by the Preferred
Mutual Accident Association Of New
York that payment on his policy is re-
fused on the ground that the fracture