Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-08-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

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In Mexican theaters they pay for each
act separately.
THOMAS A. EDISON is the patentee of
over 900 inventions.
The Niagara Falls tunnel has reached
length of S,a67 feet.
CHICAGO has forty married women
public school teachers.
IDAHO is the only state whose name
has never been satisfactorily accounted
for.
PRINCE BISMARCK enjoys now COM
potency closely estimated at $3.50, 600 a
year.
A NEW YORK man committed suicide
because his wife refused to support
him"
SIX million dollars are invested in the
manufacture of dynamite in the United
States.
THERE are said TO be 40, 600 members
OF volunteer military companies in this
country.
NICKEL steel does not corrode in salt
water, which fact is of great value to
ship plates.
The salvation army is making spe-
cialty of fashionable watering places
this season.
BIsHor MEssNrER, of Green Bay. is one
of the few Catholic clergymen who
wear a beard.
The St. Louis chief of police requires
the 1000 Chinese in that city to be
photographed.
SENATOR EUGENE HALE is one of
three purchasers of an immense lumber
tract in Maine.
SINCE the Franco-Prussian war Ger
many has spent 1900, OO0, 900 on her
army and navy.
a VANDALIA (Mich) farmer killer
twenty-three rattlesnakes in his hav
field in one day.
WILLIAM SOONER, of Milan, Tenn.
who had lived for years in a hollow
tree, died lately.
AT present Mr. Cleveland weighs
$50 pounds and his girth is more ample
than ever before
MR. GLADSTONE first spoke in the
house of commons on May Il, 1888,
fifty-nine years ago.
The combined weight of three
peaches seen in New York market
lately was seven pounds.
CHICAGO authorities have ordered the
removal of all nickel-in-the-slot ma
chimes from public places.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION will produce
his long expected memoirs in the course
OF the next sixteen months.
CANADA has about 10. 600 Chinese in
habitants, ands the number is increas-
ing at the rate of 100 year
Mr. NICHOLS, the husband of Char
lotte Bronte, is still living, it is report
ed, in remote part of Ireland.
IN Morgan county. Mo, is an ONYX
deposit which forms the floor of n cave
for distance of 100 yards or more.
HIRAM LUKENs has been setting type
IN the office of the Doylestown pa.
lntelligencer ever since June 81, 1882.
A MYSTERIOUS ringing of electric bells
In house in Switzerland was traced TO
a spider, whose web had connected two
wires.
THERE are 175 different pieces in the
average watch, requiring in its manu-
facture 2,4OO separate and distinct oper-
atoms.
Il REPORT is in circulation that the
Rev. George Jacob Schweinfurth thinks
strongly of moving his Heaven" to
Texas.
AMoSG the new cadets at West Point
are son of Gen. John Pope and grand
sons of Gen. Sherman and Gen. c. +.
Smith.
DANIEL LAMoST's physical condition
Is very alarming, and the possibility of
his return to health is questioned by his
physician.
THE late Jules Lebundy. the great
Paris sugar refiner, left fortune equal
TO SIC, 600, 900. probably the largest for
tune in France.
The most expensive legislature in the
world is that of France, which costs an
nually $4,000, 600. The Italian parlia-
nent costs $3.50. 600 year
The region about the Dead sea is one
OF the hottest places on the globe, and
the sea is said TO lose million tons of
water day by evaporation.
Mrs. Edison. the wifeof the man who
has applied the electric light 20 do
nestle purposes. prefers candles TO
any other form of household inumina-
ton.
An enterprising Philadelphia pub,
Usher contemplates bringing ont an
edition of Shakespeare in words of
one syllable for use in the primary
schools
Gov. PECK. Of Wisconsin. was once a
humble printer. living on a back street
He now lives handsomely in the house
in which Ole Bull, the famous vioIinist.
once lived.
some New York hotels have now
regular woman guide and chapcrone
connected with the establishment for
the convenience OF ladies visiting the
city alone
SoME Of the electric street railroad
companies Of Brooklyn are equipping
theircars with storage batteries. having
found the plan Of stored electricity per
fectly feasible
IT is now given out that the cruiser
Cincinnati viii be launched in October
u IS said her engines and machinery
viii be the most powerful put i'm the
cruisers Of her class
GERNASY is hui sling new double
track strategical rail- way between f,arls-
ruhe into Lorraine 90 be COMPLETED
early in 1895. The bridge on which IL
crosses the Rhine will cost four million
marks.
THERE are three places known where