Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-07-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

sdcn year IN Italy.
The Gulf of Mexico has risen over
one foot since 1851
CHINESE silk fans with carved ivory
sticks are the newest.
CHIcAeo's new directory gives the city
apopulation of 1890, OOO
EVERY fifth boy in India is at school.
but only every fiftieth girl.
AS LATE as l772 women rode astride
Side saddles are modern inventions.
Miss RAY BEvERIDGE, of San Fran
cisco, is an accomplished blacksmith.
ONE pound of cork is sufficient to sup
port man of ordinary size in water.
SITTING BULLS daughter, Miss Stand
ing Holy, has joined wild west show.
The number of men employed in the
railway industry in this country is
IA, $50.
The leaf of the banana is usually six
feet long by two feet wide. The flow
ers are pink.
The Adirondack wilderness embraces
an extent of 5000 square miles, or
5000. 900 acres.
HE mouth of the Mississippi river,
curiously enough, is three miles higher
than its source.
IN the old testament only one wom-
ans age is recorded, that of Sarah,
Abraham's wife.
The first king to whom the title of
majesty" was applied was TO Louis XI.
In France, in 1863.
The hardest wood known is cocu,
wood; it turns the edge of any AK. how
ever well tempered
NEIL BYRANl, one of the once famous
frOnDe Of TninStY-a1c =
clerk at Washington.
TWELVE members of the senate have
been governors of states, and five have
been cabinet officers
The German emperor is said TO have
posed before n camera 40 times since he
assembled the throne.
GEO. NJ. PULLMAN gives his daughter
Harriet one hundred dollars for naming
each new Pullman car.
LAKE MICHIGAN boasts of n gospel
snip that makes tour each year to the
lake villages and cities.
The longest journey taken by any
European train is from Paris To Con-
stantinople, 1,s57 miles.
Ar the beginning of the present wear
166,sl7 miles of railway were in opera.
ton in the United States.
. Miss ADELINE NJ. IRI.soN retires from
the Cambridge, Mass, corps of teachers
after fifty years of service.
a NIECE of the late James Russell
Lowell, Miss Ruth Burnett, is soon to
become Sister of Charity.
-FOUR pounds of gold were recently
collected from the SCOT of the chimney
of the royal mint in Berlin.
COLUMBIA river contains trout covered
with large red spots. They have been
PANIED Dolly Warden" trout.
IHE constitution of Louisiana per-
miis women To hold any office in con-
nection with public education.
JOHN c. FREMONT, son of the famous
Pathhdner, is acting as a reporter at
the scene of the Homestead riots
IHE Presbyterians are about TO es.
tabhsh college in St Lake CITY. and
have purchased a site of 100 acres.
a SOUTH JERSEY paper makes the re-
markable statement that thin people
are very thick in this neighborhood.
The Chinese, Japanese. Malavs.
Siamese, New Zealanders and the North
American Indians are all but beardless.
BIsHoP JoHN F. HURST, of the Meth
odist church, is To be married in Sep
TENDER to Miss Ella Agnes Root of Buf.
falo.
SECRETARY OF STATE FosTFR is the
only man in the nations diplomatic his
tory who has held three first-class mis-
sions.
The Arkansas City Traveller thinks
that the Fourth of July is all right, but
that the 5th of July ought to be abol-
ished.
No bird can fly backwards without
turning; the dragon-fiy, however, can
do TINS and can outstrip the swallow in
speed.
The price of reserved seats at the Sul
hvan-Corbett fight in New Orleans has
been fixed at $40 each, and chairs at
t25 each.
FEW lovers of Walter Scott recall the
Tact that he wrote five plays, none of
which, however, has ever been put on
the stage.
CHEAT BRITAIN has two lady lawyers.
Miss Frances II. Gray and Letitia Walk
ington- Both are Irish women and ma
tives OF Belfast
DANCING is taught in many of the
public schools in Scotland. and made a
feature Of the closing exercises at the
end Of the term.
The longest canal in the world is the
one which extends from the frontier OF
China 20 St Petersburg. 1t meas
ures in all 4,472 miles.
The largest county in the United
States Is san Bernardino county. Cali
fornia- IL Is over 900 miles long and
half that distance in width
THE longest straight stretch OF rail-
road without curve. is on the Argen-
tine Pacific. From Buenos Ayres 10 the
foot Of the Andes, oil miles.
BEATmcE NEHoS. a Chicago girl Of
French ~'-entage has achieved n nota-
bic triumph as singer AZ the ROYAL
court theater at Stockholm
a buffalo q. " man proposes To
furnish the Worlds fair with am attrac-
ton in the shape Of collection o.,
snakes lie claims % be able 10 show
ms many as 1000 different varieties
IHE largest grain elevator in the
world was built at Minneapolis juno.
ton In 1856. The main building IL ggg
feet long. ~ feet wide and l.5 feet HIGH
Its storing capacity is 2, 200. 600 bushels
81 grain.