Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-11-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

collection OF over 100 corkscreys
BROWNSVILLE. Pa, boasts of tomato
that weighs two and a half pounds.
OVER 100000 pounds of tea wer,
imported into this country last year.
a NEw design in clocks is Cupid hold
Ing heart, in which is the timepiecc.
TRENTON. Mo-. lays claim to n coloreo
woman who, it is said, is 1l2 years old.
GENUINE gold and silver coins are
now mounted to do service rs bonnet
pins.
The saloons of London, If set side by
side, would reach a distance of seventy.
five miles
The first elevated railroad in Eng.
land Is fast approaching completion in
Liverpool
NEW and valuable halibut banks have
peen found to the west of Cape Flattery.
Washington.
ELIzABETH CITY, y. c., has wonder
ful freak of nature, it is claimed. in the
shape of live calf with bull dogs head.
: r. H. ScHEMERHoRS, n geologist,
claims to have found fossil forest in
Custer county, Idaho.
a BOTTLE corlxing machine. with a
feed reservoir of corlzs like the magazine
gun, is a recent invention.
Gov. PECK's excuse for WRITING,
'Peck's Bad Boy" is that he was only
forty-three years old ut the time
The largest catfish ever caught in the
Mississippi river was landed near Ca
rondelet 1t weighed zoo pounds.
THE Dry Goods Examiner saws l59
pearl button factories were started in
this country during the past two years.
Two pelicans were lately killed in
Il "a f Il.
uriny nearly nine feet in expanse of
wing.
The new whalebacl steamer 20 be
built at Everett, Wash, will be 500 feet
In length, 42 feet beam and 26]5 feet in
depth
WHILE in Maine one can visit Norway,
Sweden, Mexico and Peru, and post
office has just been named in Knox
county for Turkey.
An ingenious Indianian has invented
pillow in which an auger or n screw
mold board is operated by means of q
drive wheel in the rear.
JoNEsBoRo, Ga, has n resident who
1T is reported, has only spent IS in the
past six years for clothes. He is said
to be worth over s1O,0
AT the head of the Gulf of Bothnia
which the sun shines perpetually dur
ing June 10, 20, 81, 81 and 90.
THIS very sage advice was given by al
aged priest: Always treat an insult
like mud from passing vehicle; never
brush it off until it is dry"
Miss BERTHE CAMPBELL, of Allentown.
Pa, bet money that she could make
pumpkin pie in five minutes. She made
n good one in four minutes
AN average of three British seamen
lose their lives every day by drowning,
land 500 British steamers and sailing
vessels are lost at sea yearly.
No INSTITUTION or device has with
stood ridicule so well as the niclSel-in.
the-slot machine, which as a collector
of small coin is still great success.
THE moth has fur jacket and the
butterfly has none because the noctur-
nal habits of the moth require it The
diurnal movements of the butterfly dc
not
An automatic match igniter is a re-
cent novelty. You pull lever, n match
travels along n roughened surface and
is then thrust out Of an opening already
ignited
PHILADELPHIA woman goes shop
ping with a baby carriage which is
pushed by small colored boy in livery,
and she returns with 1t loaded with
parcels.
NEW ZEALASD has set apart two
islands for the preservation of its re.
marlsable wild birds and other animals,
forbidding therein all hunting and
trapping
SENATOR HoAR. who sailed for Eu.
rope IN May on account of serious
trouble with his eyes, has returned in
good health and with his sight greatly
improved.
a CHAIN made for the United States
government at Troy ". Y, in 1883. was
six miles and fraction in length. 1t
was made of bars Of iron each p inches
in diameter.
SIX brothers OF the Frost family at
Kansas City own the following odd lot
of names: Jack Frost, Winter Frost.
White Frost, Cold Frost, Early Frost
and Snow Frost
SLEEPING car company official
states that fifty dozen yvhisks and sixty
dozen combs arc used up on his cars
every month. This Is suggestive of the
memento gatherer
THE Cotton marble works have lust
quarried what is claimed TO be the !
largest block OF marble ever taken out
In California II is reported 20 be 10
feet in length, . feet inches in width
and feet . inches thick.
IT is asserted that there is not a liv. |
ing stream OF water in Thomas county.
Kan, nor tree OF natural growth. An
the same the farmers there don't find
any trouble In raising wheat that turns
out thirty bushels 20 the acre.
As NEARLY as can be ascertained. the
irrigated lads oil California comprise
$500. 900 acres. Irrigation has cost s3o.-
100000. but 10 has increased the value
Of the land $500. 600. 900.
PRoF a. D. HOpBIys. Of the West
Virginia experiment station, has ar.
rived from Europe with n bug which. !
he thinks, will destroy the pine-tree
beetle that has 50 greatly damaged the
West Virginia forests
Ak advertisement appears In west.
ern paper which reads thus: III Geo.
william Brown VINO deserted his poor
wife and babe twenty-five years ago.
will return, the aforesaid babe will
knock che stuiling out OF him.
a coHBEsroSDENT OF the CONNECTION.
ers Journal says that banana Juice
makes "a nrst-claes iudclfbIc ink