Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-10-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

NOVELS constitute niue-tenths of all
the books read in this country.
THE queen. it is stated. has prohibit
ed the use of tobacco Mt Windsor Castle.
A SECOND crop OF strawberries is re-
ported on a nursery farm ut Newburg,
N. Y.
The state debt of Missouri has been
reduced a million and half so Ear this
year.
ABOUT one-third of the human race,
10000, 600 of people, speak the Chinese
language
j. ID. HOWELL, of Pittsburgh, married
Miss Carrie Rome-made Rome Howell,
as il were
a sEvESTY-Foor fin-baclS whale was
washed ashore at Ocean City, n. j., .
few days ago.
AN Alton (nl) girl was Rugged so
hard by her lover that one of her ribs
was fractured
A COLUMN of masonry in Kansas
marks the exact geographical center of
the United States
IT is estimated that the cereal crop of
Canada has been damaged fully $685.
ooo.o by insects
The Michigan copper mines are said
TO be yielding larger amount of silver
the deeper they go.
CORNELL also has this year the largest
freshman class in her history 1t num-
bers more than 600.
1T is said that linn burger cheese cut
and laid in cupboards and refrigerators
will drive red ants away.
1T takes n million pounds of ink
every year to print Uncle Sans paper
money and revenue stamps
ULYSSES 5. GRANT and Robert f. Lee
arc room-mates at the Washington and
Lee university, Lexington, Va
The present editor of the Chicago
Times is said to have worked Mt the
case rs compositor on that paper.
JOHN j. TAYLOR, of Streator. Ill.
once wrote 400 words on the blank
side of postal card without artificial
aid.
OWING TO the salmon industry the
Columbia river is said to give out more
wealth than any other river in the
world.
THERE are in the British army .. O5o
generals-including officers holding
honorary rank-or one TO every hun
dred soldiers
Stern county, Cal paid $500, the cost of
prosecuting man for stealing 60 cents.
and he was acquitted
THE Duke of Portland has n nccIStie
FOR every hour of the day, and he never
wears his gloves twice. His hosier's
bill is about ST, 200 n year
Mrs. GEO. j. GOULD. who was "A Mis-,
Edith Kingdom, Is a careful and econom-
ical housekccper. She is good cook.
and frequently makes her children's
clothes
IT IS claimed that the sun never sets
on American soil. and that when IL Is
p. IN. at Attoo Island. Alaska, il is g:s6
u M. the next day on the eastern coast
of Maine.
POST OFFICE has been established
at label katcrin on top of Mount Sinai.
That historic old mountain is known
throughout the last as the Mountain
of Moses"
lr Is proposed To establish n line OF
steamships to run Letween Philadel.
phia and Mexico and which will touch
at several important points, including
Havana, Cuba.
FEMALE jewclry drummer is the
latest novelty ON the road in Mime
She Is handsome dresses stylisblv-
wears a mans sole cit hat, and halls
from New York
KIND Of bitum r.,us rock. which is
found in several p aces in California. is
being extensive used for street pave
mentS IN that tat These pavements
are very like asphalt
The treasury department. has decided
that marble ust of the prince of
Wales, imported or a masonic society
IN Iowa, is entitled 20 come into the
country free OF duty
PROBABLY the b Rgcst apple of the
season is one grown in MARYLAND II
weighs twenty six and one-half ounces
Anu measures sixteen inches in circum-
ference. II is a pippin.
MORE than four times the money re-
CURED has been offered for the new
Russian loan despite all that has bee,
done by the oth~childs and Other
large bankers 20 prevent IL.
CURIOUS feature Of this seasons
apple crop in York county. Me. Is that
Vt Is unusually Light all over, except in
a belt about five miles wide. where the
yield Is phcnomcnally large
The fruit and potato crops OF Cali
fornia are so great that a large per-
ccntage Of them will not bc brought
10 the market ing TO the price oeino
80 low that it will be unprofitablc
IT Is unusual 20 see grain standing In
the field ready to cut while three inches
Of snow covers the ground But this
could have been seen on the first dav
Of October. 1891. in Snake river VALLEY
Idaho
THE cranberry crop Of New Jerscv
this year ~ valued 40 5000. 600 The
cost 81 getting the berries 20 market
averages s ushcl and the market
prices range from e. 80 20 81. 30 n busbel
WHAT was long supposed 90 be "A way
figure on cruciiN Ira the Burgos Cathc.
dral turns out 60 be mummified bu-
man body. The church record show.
that Il has been in its present position
since i1fO A. ID
THE greatest artesian well in the
world has heen recently struck in Soutb
Dakota IL is $50 ct deep The water
pressure Is 225 pounds per square inch
and is flow from s, 200 70 10000 gal
Ions per minute.
a CHICAGO paper has held an cleo.
ton on the RECOMMENDATION 80 a.. -