Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-12-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

The defective fiue has started in on
its winter campaign
THERE are said to be about so buffa,
Toes left in Wyoming.
The cost of running the United Statos
In over a million a day
DEER are very plentiful this winte,
on Camas prairie, Idaho
The likeness of Fred Grant to his
father increases as he grows older.
DR. HOLMES has decided to undertake
no more literary work for the present
SOME watches now made are guaran.
teed to keep time to within ten seconds
a month.
OF coal, and the product of 1890 was s.
600, 600 tons.
IN Canada four sons of one family
married four daughters in another on
the same day.
The longest railway bridge span in
America is that at Poughkeepsie. NY,
which is 54s feet
NEW herring bank, 100 miles long,
has been discovered off the west coast
of Newfoundland
SATURDAY, Sunday and Monday are
the lucky days for marriages in Eng.
Aanu ana scotland
The net amount of the debt of New
York city November 80 was a little over
ninety-n nine millions.
A NEW YORK man made over all his
property to his wife. She eloped and
he is now in the poor house.
SUNDAY as n day of rest Is gaining
ground more rapidly in France than in
any other country in Europe.
GouRD with n natural handle five
feet long is curiosity which Samuel
holt, of Turniptown, Ga, is proud OF
= MILESTONE set by Benjamin Frank
lin is still standing in New London
county Conn. 1t is old and mossgrown.
A PHILADELPHIA jeweler displays in
his window a clock having a skeleton
performing on trapeze for q pendu-
lum
A SMALLPOX patient who didn't want
to go to the hospital was chased through
the streets of Newark. n. j., and final.
ly captured.
FRANCE has assumed rights this wear
over third of Sahara. II France wants
the earth she is not picking out the
choice spots.
THE editor of the Ashland CMo) Blu
@' sA.A IN llNy, and
1t predicts the weather as accurately as
an almanac of to-day.
The wish of Mrs. Grant that the re-
mains of Gen Grant shall not be taken
from their present resting place will
doubtless be respected.
The most powerful electric light
house in Europe is the one at Haust-
holm on the Scow. 1t has a strength
of two million candles.
CHINESE goldminers in California do
not talk at their work. as they consider
1t unlucky, and for the same reason
they do not like to be addressed by Wis
itors-
IHE death of that promising young
New York novelist. Wolcott Balestier
puts AN end to the literary partnership
he had recently formed with Rudyard
Kipling.
A COMMUNITY of socialists is reported
In jefferson county, Mo They num-
Der twenty-five, own everything in
common and call themselves HAl.
TRUSTS"
A YOUNG soldier at FL Paso. Tex.
played baseball so well with n local
club that his admirers bought his re-
lease from the army and engaged him
as a star.
IN Wyoming they are talking of send.
ing TO congress Frank Sartoris. brother.
lI-law of Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris
VINO is one of the largest cattle-raisers
in the state
NEW YORK real estate agents have
great difficulty in renting buildings said
TO be haunted. IL is estimated that
there are at least thirty of these houses
now vacant
EUGENE, now sufferer from non,
and rheumatism. once had the foot OF n
Cinderella in the DAYS of the SECOND
empire she wore shoes that would az
mere children.
The prince of Wales has been grand
master oil the English grand lodge of
free Masons for IL successive years,
ana VIII be nominated for the office |
again this month
The population of the Cherokee Na.
ton which has just sold g. OOO. 600 acres |
OF land TO the government. is about 20
600 The Cherokees are a highly civil. |
lied tribe Of Indians
THREE hundred and ffty-four emf.
grants left Stockholm FOR this CONT,
IN one day recently II is reported that
many thousands OF people are uracti.
cally without work in that city.
The people of Britt. la. are usin,,
fheir new Jail for a primary school
room. crowded public school and /
the absence OF criminals have led 40 |
this unheard Of use Of house Of cor.
rectiOn.
IT takes long time for the cocoan,t
tree % attain its full condition Of bear- |
lng-seven years-but when this ti,,s
has passed IL is a mine Of wealth and
happy he who can call a plantation OF
100 acres his own.
GIN JorBEHr. commander-fn.ohief
on the lransvaal. said the other dav. in
an address on education. that he was
eighteen years old before he had seen
newspaper and that his whole educa-
ton had cost less than that OF two
weeks schooling for his youngest
child.
a vienna jeweler while selling a
ladys watch Of small size. took n in
his mouth. lie had a cold, sneezed VIC.
lently and swallowed the watch. The
purchaser who had paid for the article
was DUN bounded. But the jeweler re-.
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