Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-03-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

OA~NAS oS dRculS
AMERICANS are now buying diamonds
at the rate of SIS, 900. 600 a year.
II is said that when Victorien Sariou
laughs he is the ugliest man in Paris.
IN Australia no newspapers are pub
hshed or railroad trains run on Sun
day.
AN Albino lobster was captured re-
Gently in the Atlantic off Passport
Maine.
Rock" hog butchered the other
day at fardville, n. j., weighed 97S
pounds
TREASURY officials deny that England
has agreed to participate in monetary
conference.
A GIRL burglar. six years old. was
captured at work the other night at
Milford. Mass
HUNDREDS of imported song birds
were turned loose n few days ago near
Beaverton, Ore.
A PHILADELPHIA ragman found q
Greek grammar 2c5 years old in an ash
barrel recently.
A RAILWAY in the Argentine Repub-
lie has one stretch of 2ll miles without
curve or bridge.
fIFrY-oNE metals are now known to
exist Four hundred years ago only
seven were known.
A cREMATED body leaves n residium of
only eight ounces; all besides is restored
to the gaseous elements
WALKING sticks, to be fashionable,
should show little or no metal The
natural sticks are preferred.
The theaters of London are now
fumigated after each performance to
prevent the spread of the grip
A PHILADELPHIA saloon has a sign In
the window which reads: "a bi-chlor-
ide-of-gold sandwich with every drink"
e MOUNTAIN in Australia was named
after Mr.. Gladstone last year. Another
has now been named Mount Sails
bury.
The only really happy monarch in
Europe just now is the king of SPAN.
and he is not old enough to know any
better.
IN proportion TO its population New
Hampshire stands first among all the
states in the amount of its savings bank
deposits.
BLIND black eel was found in a
pond in Maine recently and sent to the
United States fish commission as a
curiosity.
IHE new German army tent is divisi-
bic into two portions. each of which
can be converted into an overcoat in
case of rain
MEXICO will enforce the collection of
an export duty on ores, in order to in
duce the establishment of smelters in
that country
WITHIN five years electricity has revo-
lutionized the welding of metals and
cheapened the production of aluminium
over so per cent
PROF. WIN. MCADAMs, of Alton. Ill
dug up bundle of fossilized vegetation
which he estimates had been buried
nearly 1900 years
JULES VERNE predicts the invention
OF "telephote," that will enable peo-
pie ut the distance of thousands of
miles to see one another.
REPRESENTATIVE CoGswEII, of Mas.
sachusetts, has introduced bill to es-
taolish national sanitarium for the
treatment of consumption
a SISTER of Cardinal Manning. Mrs.
Austen, has survived him, and, al
though over ninety years of age. she is
sun active IN charitable and benevolent
work
j. ii. JOHNSON, of Blakelv, Mimi.
advises farmers to build their own
fiour-mills They can then get 81 a
bushel for their own wheat, saws Mr..
Johnson
NEW diamond is being cut in Ant
Werp SAID TO be the largest ever found
IN Africa 1t weighs 400 carats. and
when 1T Is finished it will be reduced
one-half
a RECENT pamphlet on the railways
OF London states that there are $50
railway stations within a six-mile "a
dius of St Paurs cathedral, and 891
WITHIN twelve-mile radius of the same
center.
Two hundred and fifty electric rail.
ways are running in the United States.
en- bracing 2, 024 miles of track and 8. $50
motor cars, with ia. 436 horsepower
These railways represent n value of
over $40. 900. oOo
KNOWLEDGE is power--likewise money.
French economist has been charged
IN the chamber of deputies at Athens
with receiving enormous pay from n
French syndicate for his services in eff.
forts 10 depreciate Greek bonds.
II was the Chinese who invented the
well-known plan of capturing ducks
ana other waterfowl by wading toward
them with basket over the head and
dragging them under water before they
knew what had caught them by the
legs
IHE election board at Neville. Pa.
at recent election ruled that legal
voter must be twenty-one years and
thirty days old, which shut out a Young
man who was but fourteen DAYS past
his twenty-frst birthday. No explana.
ton Is offered
SENATOR PETTIGREw's first home in
south Dakota was a rough log hut
which he built with his own hand. At
Sioux City, when he went out there a.
laborer 90 a United states deputy sur
Teyor nearly twenty-five years ago.
ANoSG the recent innovations in Der.
LIN IL = matrimonial clubhouse Itis
large, roomy building divided into
several apartments, In one OF which
portraits Of each woman subscriber arc
exhibited with full descriptions Of her
age. talents. fortune. color of hair
eyes, etc, size OF hands and feet. and
general contour. There is also brief
account Of her life. whether widow or
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