Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE average size of an American
farm is $40 acres
THERE are 1, 100 men employed in the
Bank of England.
NEW YORK jeweler has cigarette
holder worth $3.50
THE average camel will travel 500
miles in eight days
TRUCKEE, Cal, has . child with one
black and one blue eye
No SHIRT has boon elected chief OF
the Umatilla Indians in Oregon.
A BELGIUM viscount has enlisted ~
private in the United States army.
GIRL in Norway must be able to
bake bread before she can have n beau.
In Buffalo one line Of street railway
crosses fifty-four railroad tracks in its
course.
FoRrr-rraHr stage coaches carrying
the United States mails were held up
last year.
A GENIUS proposes to transmit power
from Niagara TO run the Worlds fair
machinery.
LARGE mum Der of men in Washing
ton make their living by writing con.
gressmen's speeches
THERE are now 81. Ts6 Irishmen in the
British army. In 1850 there were CO..
600 and in 1870 "A, OOO
FRANCE ought to be happy. according
to an old saying. for her revenue last
year exceeded expenditures by SO, 0o0,.
600
JAMES COLE, of Vernon county, Mo-,
has been sent to the penitentiary for
breaking his wife's nose with fence
rail
THE cost of round-trip ticket on
the proposed new railroad between
JoPpa and Jerusalem will be about four
dollars
PLACE called Pro Tenn in fancy
county. Mo, has lasted now for many
years and bids fair to become per-
manent
SoMK butchers OF Ligonier, Pa, made
n Christmas sausage sixty-two feet four
inches in length II weighed thirty
seven pounds.
LOUIS kossUrH is very sick at his
home in Turin. he suffers considera-
bly, from asthma, and also has trouble
with his eyes
SLATE and pencil are not good enough
for the New York school boy. He must
have letter pad and n fountain pen to
do his sums with.
THE other day New York city pa.
per published a record of log deaths.
twcnty-seven of them being of persons
over 20 years of age.
By n majority of liza the voters of
the city of Toronto. in Canada declared
against the running OF street cars on
Sunday. and only one newspaper advo-
Gated the change.
The noted Australian lyrc-bird is
threatened with total extinction in
New South Wales, owing TO the Ameri-
can demand for its tail-feathcrs to adorn
feminine headgear.
RESIDENT of Saratoga, Ark, un.
earthed what is supposed to be the
bones of n monstrous serpent There
were thirty nine joints and some o.
them weighed nine pounds.
STEEL baskets for the bodies of those
who die suddenly on ship GARD are be-
ing carried on many of the transatlau.
TIC liners. The remains are placed in
them and hermetically sealed.
PRESERVED as mcmento at the
Adams house, Boston, is box contain.
ing few cigars which belonged &c
Gen. Grant ut the time his illness com.
PEELED him TO give up smoking
WHILE James Wilkerson. of Raw
county, Mo, was being buried and his
family and friends were gathered Mt
the cemetery, thieves drove thirty-two
head of cattle from his pasture.
ALL the IL on for Princess Victoria
Mays trousseau Will be- made in Ire.
land. her tweed dresses will come from
Scotland, and some of her finer cos
tunes are 70 be of English-made silk.
Two colored delinquents in Raleigh.
N. c, were recently condemned 10 re-
ceive thirty-niue laShes each, and SPEC
tators were admitted 70 witness the
whipping a. twenty-five cents n head.
The gate receipts went 10 the prison.
ers.
ELLEN TERRYs signature is worth
exactly los, Cd sterling. She placed her
name, unsolicited. on some 1sd photo
graphs of herself at an Edinburgh fair
the other night and the price OF the
pictures at once advanced to one guinea
each.
AT the auction sale OF autographs in
London. the other day. letter OF AID.
elina Patti in which she declares that
every body IS madly in love with her.
brought only eleven shillings, and doc.
uments signed by Richelieu went FOR
two shillinQs
SECRETARY ELKINs has in West Vir.
Rinia a house which is described as one
of the finest country residences in the
south. IL contains ninety rooms and
commands a superb view OF the sur.
rounding country, which Is exception.
ally beautiful
LIBBABfAN SPoFFoBD points out a
strange error in the Encyclopedias
Brittanica, which. confounding state
Legislation In Virginia with national
enacimcnts, states that the United
States congress had passed seventy acss
authorizing lotteries
THERE are I51G sailors In the Amer
lean navy. of whom 1907 are foreign
e~s 1850 have never taken out natural.
ization papers. and l. 2s2 have never re
sided In ths United States az nll.
a CALIFoHN1A prune grower has re.
fused an offer from a bordeaux firm fot
his prune crop IN saclts They would.
Of course, be- repacked and shipped n,
q rpuch uruuns Huf tho gnrffD-rs.,