Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-04-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

nrc engine Is IN use
PADESEwskI, the pianist, practices
rrom six TO eight hours daily.
WOMEN used % wear nightgowus
Now Il is dream robes that they wear
THERE are twenty representatives In
congress who sr>e under thirty-six wears
of age.
4 PLor has seen discovered todepose
the sultan of Zanzibx- in favor of the
prince of Mrscat
PRINCE GEORGE, SON of the prince of
Wales, will, it is wlnounced, visit the
Worlds fair in 1898
THERE were at the beginning of last
year s,097 artesiaR wells in the western
states and territories
SECRETARY EBKINs is said to have
more daily callers than any of the war
ministers since Stanton.
PATTI has nvwatch no greater than .
ten-cent picce in circumference, which
is said To be worth 81. 600
The De Rcszkcs, Jean and Edouard
took away Sl@5, 900 of American money
when they sailed for France
ABLAcK man has been sent to Jail for
two'wcels in Lexington, Mo, for ours
ing and swearing on the streets.
a STEAM pillow at work in Cheyenne
county. Kan, tears up the earth At the
rate of two and one-half acres an hour.
A PARTY of lads entered the Harrison
vile On. j. cemetery few nights ago
and turned over twenty-one tomb
stones.
Cor. RoBERr G. INeERsoIL stepped on
the Astor house scales the other day
and tipped the beam at exactly 331
pounds.
4uE weather in Florida dnring the
past winter has been remarkably bad
and very discouraging 10 natives and
visitors
SEvENrY-FIvE per cent. of the older
trees on Boston common are afflicted
with slow consumption, caused by the
too compact soil.
IT is reported that the opera and
Patti seasons have resulted in net
profit to Abbey, Schoeffel s. Grau of not
far from 100000.
SENATOR and Mrs. Leland Stanford
have homes in San Francisco, Sacra-
mento, henlo Park, and at two of the
Stanford ranches.
THERE will be building Mt the
Worlds fair where woman can leave
her baby and get check for it while
she sees the show.
ALBERT WAKEFIELD, Bangor's veteran
lawyer, wears pair of calf-slxin boots
that he has had since 1861, and they are
IN good condition now.
EX-Gov. NEWTON BOOTH. of ,Califor-
mia, is slowly dying ut his home in Sac
ramento of the same disease which end
Cd the life of Gen. Grant
YOUNG man hypnotized at an enter.
tainment in Paris remained senseless
Tor two days, and was with difficulty
brought back 10 consciousness.
NEW YORK has 1000 saloons, or one
for every goo people. Placed in a
row and each given twenty-five feet,
they would reach distance of thirteen
miles
SUSPENSION bridges which We're built
in the time OF the Han dynasty (aO2 b.
c. TO go A. D. are still standing: strik-
ing examples of early oriental engi-
neering slSill
a GERMAN importer of immigrants
has offered to settle 400, 900 Germans in
the northwestern territory of Canada.
but wants a price per capita for all
whom he lands
BECAUSE the jurors disagreed in n
v.
the judge told them that they were a
disgrace TO society. and were defeating
the ends OF justice.
TO FIND the relative distance of the
sun and stars. suppose the earth and
sun but one inch apart Al the same
relative distance the nearest fixed star
would be just eleven miles away.
THERE is dentist in Rome named
Fra Orsenico who has been known TO
extract 400 teeth day without the use
of forccPs- He makes use of his thumb
and forefnger in drawing molars
Liz discovery is made that the Alaska
soil and climate are peculiarly adapted
10 hop-raising. An Oregon syndicate
has purchased large tract near Fort
Wrangle and will plant it with hops.
a MUE and white ginger-jar, of the
period of Kang-ce, brought 81, O5O at the
American Art gallery sale II had a
silver corner OF more recent time. but
there was no ginger in IL OF any period.
SALT does not enter into the food of
the poor Venetians. They never taste il,
and the hospital for the scrofulous chill
dren at Lido Is filed by those who have
not had this necessary article in their
food
TIE little fve-year-old king Of Spain
has civil list Of 81 $50. 900 year. His
eldest sister. now about nine years Of
age, has "a fixed income Of 500. 900
Ex-Queen Isabella receives $3.50. 600 Der
annufn.
IHK telescope we owe 10 some chill
dren al q spcctaclc-malkcr placing two
or more pairs o. spcctaclcs before each
other and looking through them AZ the
distant sky. Their idea was followed
mp by older heads
BEmry is b. have "a new O.. Ooo. 900
cathedral The city IS very badly pro-
vidcd with churchcs 81 Is reclSoned that
no more than $1,000 out 81 100. 600 i'm
habitants could be- seated 40 ono time in
al the Protestant churches.
CoNsfDERABfE syvindling has beep
pcrpctratcd IN connection with the
opening Of the sisseton Indian rcserva-
ton. Persons calling themselves attor-
neys have advertised all over the conn
ty That Tor e. they would obtain farms
Tor their customers, without the ncse.-
stty ~ settlement There e. SO little
knowledge - Use land laws in tho East
mat many innocent persons have been