Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-11-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

OF the parties has been married before
ALARM clocks are set in the headboard
Of new bedsteads in which early risers
sleeh
WHEN Queen Victoria travels she
wears no iewelry. and is clad simply in
black
THERE are more than one thousand
Islands over which the flag of Japan
floats
ALL the principal cities in the Repub-
lie of Colombia are now light with cleo
tricity.
VICTORIA, queen of England and
empress of India, has forty grand
children.
ALBERT BIERsrADT has sold his great
painting. THE Last of the Buffaloes,"
for $50, 600.
THERE are only so. 600 Hawaiian
islanders left. Fifty years ago there
were $4,000.
A NUREMBURG watch in the form of
an acorn has tiny pistol which serves
rs an alarm
THE genuine Shetland pony can be
bought on its native heath for about
forty dollars.
Lone ear rings, such rs We're worn u
quarter of n century ago, are coming in
fashion again.
The latest estimate shows that there
are only fourteen people to the square
mile IN America
LEcKY, the celebrated historian. has
been SO unfortunate rs to find that he
can write poetry.
A PUMPKIN, weighing ITO pounds, was
L. -
Sudleervillc, Md.
The earl of Dudley holds the largest
life insurance ever effected, the amount
being for 5000. 900.
MRS. CHAScHARD places . high value
upon Millets "Angelus" She has in
sured 1t for $40. O00.
RArTLEsNAKE with two heads has
been captured in California. 1t has
fangs in both its mouths.
Gov. BoIEs, of Iowa is native of
New York. He started west for wealth
with only few cents in his pocket
A BosroS lady has invented \ spoon
for measuring medicine by which q
dose can be administered without spill
ing.
THE two-year-old boy of Frank Fet-
ters, of Camden, Pa, got hold of his
fathers pipe, sucked a lot of nicotine
out of it and died.
THE germs of yellow fever, il is
thought, may be conveyed from tropical
countries by the pet birds exported in
10 large numbers.
KATE FIELp's definition of plagair-
ism is pronounced very clever by the
critics. She calls it lack OF skill in
effacing coincidents
IT is rumored in Tennessee that the
prison guards were in collision with
the miners who recently made n whole
sale release of convicts
ACCORDING to official figures from
half the counties of PENNSYLVANIA over
s., 600, 600 will be spent this year in re-
pairing the roads of the state.
DR. HELENE DRUsCHSowTrz, one of
the first women in Austria TO acquire
the title of Phi D., became suddenly in
sane few days ago in Vienna
THE wettest place in the world is at
Cherra-Ponjee, in the Khasi-Hills of
Assam. The fall of rain for n single
month has ranged from 100 to 200
inches.
AMONG the coming events of the
ball given in honor of the duke and
duchess of Marlborough by Mrs Paran
Stevens
WITHIN the past month work and
wages have been offered TO the Russian
Jewish exiles by 3. 500 industrial estab-
lishments, factories and mining corpo-
rations through the United Hebrew
charities.
IL p CHRATMAS, of North Carolina,
the only colored member of the next
congress. is a college graduate, and is
said TO be the best educated Negro. with
single exception, that has yet sat in
the house.
ASSUMING the population of the
world, according TO latest estimates, to
be about 1.450. 600. 600, IL is estimated
that 1850, 600, 900 are non. Christians,
and, of course, 800, 900. 600 only are
Christians
LUMINOUS crayon has been invent
ed which enables lecturers 90 draw on
the blackboard when the room is dark
eued for the use OF the lantern. IL is
likely 10 prove OF value also TO students
who take notes
ONE Of the longest chutes In the
world is in a logging camp at Clifton.
Ore. IL is three-quarters OF a mile
long. The bottom is shod with railroad
iron. A log slides the whole length in
twenty second
Mn g. W. Dunn. the California nat.
uralists, has collected more than seven
~ thousand insects belonging 90 the
horn-winged family. FIVE thousand Of
the cricket tribe and about four thou.
sand butterflies
GEORGIA man five years ago. e f.
said. discovered growing ia his field a
cotton plant the tint Of which was
bright red. by saving the seed each
year he this season gathered a bale OF
this curious cotton"
The vote o. Riley county KAN
man was challenged because ne had
been IN the penitentiary seven times
lie was however, equal 90 the emer-
gency; he produced the pardoniuQ pa
pers for each offensc
A MIXTURE OF powdered aluminium
and chloride q potash will give bril-
liant Hash light 10 gives no smoke.
and Is thus FAR better than the mavne-
Stun for Photographic purposes