Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-07-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE Maryland peach crop is reported
to be far below the average.
A PROCESS for making whisky out OF
molasses has been patented.
A MINIATURES minister married nips
couples ON the Fourth of July.
GRATED pineapple in socalled Swiss
water ice is the newest from the caser-
ers
II costs over $500 recently in legal
fees in South Carolina 20 settle acclaim
of So
Rrors with loss of life continue in
Russia as n result of the cholera cpl
demic.
The cocoon of healthy s;llxworn
will often yield thread 1000 yards in
length
Miss WINNIE DAVIS is now at work
on book of personal recollections %
her father.
USTIL August Mars will be nearer
the earth than it will be again for IF
teen years
Carr. ALVIN HALL, of Deering, Me-,
has pair of mittens made from his
wife's hair.
A RECENTLY discovered manuscript
proves that Columbus was born in So
vona, Italy.
A LEAD mine which yield almost pure
lead is reported to have been discovered
at Turner, Me.
SARATOGA, Kan, has $50, 900 opera
house, but only the music of insects is
ever heard there
In the recent municipal elections in
France the socialists carried the cities
of Marseilles, Toulon, Toulouse. Mar
bonnie and Roubaix
ALL the ,pawnshops in Moscow, owned
by Jews, will be closed this month by
order of the government
a ROMAN scientist, DIR. Fornesari, has
demonstrated that tobacco smoke kills
nearly ali kinds of germs
SENATOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky.
appears in the senate wearing a suit
of clothes that cost him 81
PERSIA has aTrace of pigmy camels,
which are but twenty-five inches high
and weigh but fifty pounds.
a GERMAN geologist estimates THAI
the Dead sea will be one mass of solid
salt within less than 500 years
In different sections of Kansas this
year the threshers are boarded in cars
which accompany the machines
RUSSELL SAGE shaves himself His
clerks pay fifteen cents for a shave and
tip the barber ten cents in addition
MINNEAPOLIS has the largest grain
elevator in the world: its storing
capacity is 1000, 900 bushels of grain.
a sIx-HEAR-oLD Salem Ore girl be-
came so excited about a fire that her
heart stopped beating and she dropped
dead.
The first oil we'll was discovered in
wayne county, KY, in 1929, thirty years
before the discovery of oil in Pennsyl.
vania
A LAWRENCE (Kan.) barber went TO
shave a corpse and being absent-minded
called out Next" when he had fin.
ished.
SEwEIL county, Kas., has an Oh
which measures Il feet in length, 6J<
feet high, and, when fat, weighs 4. 800
pounds.
REV. Dr.. JOSEPH Mourn, who claims 70
have discovered Noah's ark on Mount
Ararat, Is expected to arrive in New
York soon.
A PIECE OF ground was recently sold
In Chicago at price which in silver
would cover the entire lot with three.
layers OF dollars.
SERVANT girls in California receive on
an average $e5 per month. Nurse girls
are paid from SIS to $50 and good cooks
from $50 upward.
OF all the royal ladies whose photos
are exhibited in certain shop window,
of the Rue de Ia Paix, the queen of Por-
tugal Is the handsomest.
81.
said to be the stone at Fort Riley. Kan,
winch marks the grave Of Maj. Ogden,
who died of cholera in 1855.
METAL match boxes have been put on
the market in the shape of profile heads
and msts Of Cleveland and Harrison.
and the designs are copyrighted.
II IS interesting to note that of the
3&s,O00 divorces granted in the Uniteo
States during the last twenty years
$4,000 were granted at the request of
wives
1HEIE - a tree in Jamaica known as
the life tree, on account of its leaves
growing even after being severed from
the plant only by fire can it be entire
~ destroyed.
1HE fire losses in the United States
during the first six months Of 1899
are estimated by good authority 20 be
over t55, 000, 600, against 500, 600. 600 for
the same period last year.
THERE is an unvritten law among the
best wOrlSmen: Thou shalt not take
thy neighbor's job" 40 wise employer
viii lightly lose his old employees
negie, in Forum Magazine
RECENT improvements in photo
graphic plates have been so great as T.,
make II possible 10 take accurate photo
graphs Of rifle ball travelling at the
rate OF 5000 feet q second.
As Az example Of woman's lerel-head-
edness, II is cited that Mrs. Plumb re.
Gently patented a device for keeping
railroad cars supplied With fresh air
without the attendant dust and cinde1-s
NEw variety Of birds. resem bling
English robins in color and form. have
made their appearance in Delaware
county. y. Y, which eat the potato bug
with avjdity. Wherever the birds GO
the potato vines are safe.
LoNcFErIow's birthplace in Portland
has been bought by John MusVrave.
who is rcmodeling the house. This
gives relic hunters glorious chance.
one Of them recently carving off a
whole mantel-picce in his arms.