Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-12-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

IT is said unless the factions in Ire
land soon unite, physical force will be
resorted 10
RUSSIAN peasants besieged the car
on his railroad journey with petitions
for relief from starvation
QUEEN VICTORIA pays her private
secretary. Sir Henry Ponsonby. $40, 900
and gives him n house rent free.
DON PEDRO is described by n Paris
correspondent as being much disturbed
in mind over the situation in Brazil.
New YORK is bound to head the pro-
cession- 1t now promises free life pol
icies to those who will read its papers
THERE We're two ties in York county,
Neh. rs the result of the late election,
and lots were drawn to decide the re-
suit.
The newspaper offices that supported
Fonseca during his brief reign as dicta-
tor of Brazil. have been sacked by
mobs
MIR GLADSTONE manages to get along
without stenographers for secretaries
his clerical assistants are long-hand
writers
Blairstown, n. j.. started TO save n
to 81, SIS.
A FoUR.ACRE bed of peat, with a
depth of sixty feet, has been discovered
on farm near Niles, Mich. 1t makes
splendid fuel
MEXICO, Mo, has adopted Monday
instead of Saturday as a school holiday,
so that the children can stay ut home
and help with the washing
The oldest capital in the United
States is Santa lie. w hich was the seat of
government in New Mexico as far back
as l64o, and yet its population is only
6, 1855.
The Rothschilds brothers. of London
Baron Lionel Alfred and Leopold
are noted for their transformations char
ity. great love of order and attention to
business.
y PLATTE county (Mo.) man recently
handed in 740 pennies for n railroad
ticket He has been saving his money
for long time to enjoy the pleasures
of travel.
Paris newspaper says that ex-
King Milan, of Servin, will shortly
leave for Teheran, the shah of Persia
having appointed him TO command Per-
sia's cavalry.
The lare Fst dry dock on the great
lakes has just been completed at De-
troit. Its length is SIS feet; beam, OF
feet; depth of water over the sill. 10
feet 6 inches
FoR choice mahogany, which is one
of the chief articles of export from
Honduras, London pays sl75 per thou
sand superficial feet. Rosewood brings
about $40 per thousand.
The marks {, s., d.. used in the desig-
nations for the principal denominations
OF british money are an abbreviation
for the Latin libra, solidi ct denarii,"
pounds, shillings and pence"
FARMER GESEsEo BURKE, of Roscom-
mon, Ia, has a pippin grown on his
farm which he vows won't get into a
peck measure. OF all the apple records
this seems the greatest to date.
HE agitation of better county roads
Is steadily spreading. Georgia has
just held state mass meeting for dis
cussion OF the subject and Texas is To
follow with n similar gathering soon.
IHE first chair of labor ever insti.
tuted in Europe was decreed by the
Paris municipal council last July.
Henri Reville has been named as pro-
lessor He will lecture at the Hotel de
Vile.
The development ST the cotton-seed
industry has been so great. and the
many articles now made from il are SO
useful that 1T has supplanted the IA
nous olive-tree products in a majority
of cases
IoUSG man who has never had the
sense of smell has been the subject of
some curious tests. which have shown
Pro-. Jastrow that many things which
we eat with relish are not tasted. but
only smelled
The alcohol process of obtaining
sugar from cane strip has revolution
lied sugar making from that source
The Process is very simple and il is
said that but one per cent of the alec
hol used is lost
DON PEDRO. in exile. has carried ont
nm idea he formed when he was an EN-.
perez. lie has presented medals TO the
three physicians who attended him in
Brazil, when he was SEX almost INTO
death and was only saved by their skill
and attention.
OSE Of the most curious condolences
OF the makeup OF Congress soon 20 as.
sem ole is that IL will have among ito
'~'P ehASS dIlors, ana tndt they
viii represent three adjoining dis.
tricts-the Eighteenth. Nineteenth and
Twentieth, Ohio.
DR. LESLIE KELLEY whose idea OF
curing the drinking habit by the bi.
chloride Of gold treatment has made al
most as much talk as the Pasteur cure
or the Koch remedy in other lines. is n
tail, white-haired and bcncyolcnt-lool
ing old gentleman
.. a. HAzELTI,s, Of Mitchell county.
Kan, had 500 acres Of wheat this year
which yielded 13 500 bushels. lie bag
just finished sowing 700 acres of wheat
Tor next years crop
TIE poorest paid national law.maI,.
ers, IT appears, are those OF Portugal.
where peers and commoners each re-
ceive about 1885 a year. and lust as
likely as not some Of them are not
even worth that
foE The year 1s92-3 the figures for the
German army are as follows. 20 524
officers. 1928 men. l,s37 surgeons.
go paymasters and aeronauts $50
veterinary surgeons, $50 gunsniths o.
saddlers and o., $50 horses