Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-12-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
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on the Central Pacific railroad.
The output of matches in the United
States amounts to SIS, 600. 600 year
WHITE mules are in great demand
In the South, owing to their docility.
VERSAILLES. Mo, claims vein of
coal so feet thick, the thickest vein on
earth.
Two doctors and n livery-stable man
were caught blowing open a bank safe
N Gardner. III.
TROUBLE in Madagascar is feared on
account of the natives resisting a claim
made by France.
THE largest chicken ranch in the
world is on an island in Bellingham
bay, Puget sound
II is estimated that 8, 900 car loads OF
oranges will be shipped from California
during the coming season.
IT is generally believed that congress
will make a thorough investigation of
the Maverick bank failure.
THE mail line between Halifax and
England has just been discontinued for
the first time in fifty years
Mrs. ROBERT LINCOLN. wife of the
United States minister to England, is
spending the winter at Tours
W. twenty women are
now in the Harvard annex, but they
don't count in football statistics
THE sufferers by the great Boston
fire, nineteen years ago, who still sur
vive, were paid 81, $50 during the past
year.
By rabbinical law the Jew is allowed
to drink to intoxication on two days
of the year-Purim and Simchath
Torah.
IT is stated that the crops of this
year will enable the farmers of the
vest to pay off $500, 900, 900 of mort
cages
DURING last year $50 men were killed
outright and 7,s41 manned and mangled
while coupling cars on the railways of
this country.
A POLISH inventor claims to have dis
covered process of manufacturing
smokeless and odorless coal at a cost of
a dollar a ton.
Posi- OFFICES were first established in
France in 14G4. The first English post
Office was opened in 1881, the first Ger
man Office in 1911
A CONNECTICUT man has invented a
machine which automatically feeds his
chickens at night and morning 1t is
run by clockworlx
THE fame of some men is preserved
by their cast-off clothes An old hat
of Dillon, the Irish leader, recently sold
In Australia for So.
Mrs. THOMAS NELSON, of Astoria.
Ore, drowned herself few DAYS ago
because her husband refused to allow
her to hold the baby
= MUCH of the barley arriving at Chica.
go is going on sales previously made.
and the stocks there are less than half
that of last year at this time.
The arm of compositor who works
eight hours at the case setting type,
travels distance of from six TO seven
miles, according to statistician.
THERE is new element. n mineral
discovery in the Boleo mines 1t is COM
posed of cubic crystals of fine blue
color, and has been christened "boIe.
ite."
The wooden shoe-peg was invented
in 1918 by John Walker, of Massachu-
sets. Millions of walkers have since
then pegged along enjoying his inven-
ton.
THE first iron bridge, built in 177s.
still spans n little river between Wor.
cester and Shrewsbury, England 1t
is about SO feet long and weighs SIS
tons
The fashionable point for grasping
sticks and umbrellas in London is
about six inches from the ferrule, the
handles being allowed to dangle down
ward.
an Equestrian statue OF Gen. William
Henry Harrison has been designed by
Rebisso, Of Cincinnati. for that city. 1t
Win be cast in bronze at Chicopee
Mass.
THE Tower bridge over the Thames
built on the Bascule principle. has
caused the underwriters of Lloyds TO
refuse to insure vessels that have TO
pass beneath it.
WV. SAyEESY, of Catasaudua, Pa.
aged l03 years, believes that he is the
oldest tobacco chewer on earth. having
used the weed without DAYS break
for over ninety years
AT the newly discovered metallifer-
ous mines in Texas, the miners struck
blanket lead" Of silver ore almost at
the surface of the mountain into which
they had been tunneling.
CHIEA has been warned that at the
end of the appointed time the com bined
powers will seize her customs receipts
and hold them till satisfaction for the
mission riots has been given
The amount of wheat which the
United States will be called upon TO
send TO help out the European demand
Is a round 1000, OOO.OO bushels. which
will make a big hole in the surplus.
MACON, Ga, is rejoicing over the fact
that the Ocmulgee river is now naviRa-
bic from the city 20 the Atlantic
ocean and has within year become
az important highway Of commerce.
II has been generally supposed that
Rev Arthur Bell Nichols. the husband
Of Charlotte Bronte, was dead. but h,
is still living in an obscure parish ir
ireland, where he occasionally breaches
AGRICULTURAL labor is said 20 be sc
scarce in some Of the midland countie,
Of England that the crops are lying OF
the fields ungathered. Notwithstanding
that wages have been advanced twent,
per cent
MISS MARY SMITH Of Whitesburp
g., is the proud possessor Of bed
quilt quilted over 100 years ago 10y Mis
Taylor a niece Of Gen Zachar, sTa,,t,.-