Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-04-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

PHILADELPHIA Is the greatest carpet
manufacturing center in the world
PNEUMATIC tubes for mail will prob
ably be in operation ut the Worlds fair.
THE emperor of China has ten men
whose sole duty Is To carry his UNI
brella-
TIRE most expert woman conductor of
music in the world is Miss Clara Novello
Davies
TnE palace ut Versailles, France,
which Louis XIV. built cost $780,
OOO. 600.
ONE-HALF of the paper used in the
United States is manufactured at Hol-
yoke, Mass.
SECRETARY RvsK proposes to have a
plantation of rubber trees in the ever
gladcs of FlCrid,.
The fastest ship aHoat is the City of
Pekin owned by the Pacific Mail Co.
She cost $1,000. 900.
OK an average there are 100 boys born
70 every 100 girls, but more boys die in
infancy than girls.
IT Is estimated that about sc. 900
horses were oustcd from street car scrv-
ice last year 10y electricity.
JAY GoULDs unmarried daughter
Helen, has now three lovers who are in
mates of the insane asylum.
FRENCH reporters now take notes at
night 10y the light of n tiny incandescent
lamp attached To- the pencil.
RECENT data places the population of
the globe at l,4S0, 200, 900 souls; the land
area at -, S2l 900 square miles.
IN 1883 tame elephant could be
bought in India. for SOS; now their
prices range from $3.50 to 81. 600
The sole personal eff Gets of a man
who died in Auburn, Me, recently,
were Bible and n pack of cards
AN English doctor has traced the in
fluenza in many cases TO infected post
age stamps on letters from diseased per
sons.
FAMILY now living at Helena,
Mont, possesses bones 50 brittle that
they arc broken by the most trivial acct
dents.
NINE young men are about to walk
from Americus. Ga, to Chicago. ILL.,, a
distance of 1000 miles by road, on
wager. -
THERE IS brisk trade in secondhand
tombstones in London. Still stranger is
the custom OF selling family vaults part
ly filed
DELIVERY wagons, the motive power
OF which is electricity, are the newest
vehicles in London. \ grecu-grocer had
the first
ALUMINIUM water bottles in the Ger
man army have failed OF account of cor
rosion. They would stand water, but
not brandy
AFTER search of thirty-niDe years a
son found his father in the Allegheny
mountains, in New York, living the life
of hermit
The anti-slavery societies of Europe
are TO make an exhibition at the Chi
cago fair of all the instruments used by
slave captors.
STREET letter box, charged with
electricity from crossed wires. gave a
severe shock 10 Pittsburgh letter car
rier recently.
The latest discovery in dentistry is
that new teeth may be grated on old
roots and made TO grow as finely as the
natural teeth.
TIE Italians invented the term infiu-
enza in the seventeeth century. and at
tributed the disease to. the influence of
certain planets.
). r. PARK. OF Mexico, Mo. has what
is said to be the bill of sale of Eliza"
one of the principal characters in
Uncle Toms Cabin"
SENATOR VOORHEES,, of Indiana, will
deliver the oration at the formal OPEN
ing Of the new steel bridge over the
Mississippi at Memphis. May Il.
Ex-SrEAKEE REED has one of the
largest mails that come TO the capitol.
Every morning an enormous batch of
letters and papers covers his desk.
NEW York scholar in tailoring has
enriched the English language with the
word pant0rium. which signifies a place
where pants are pressed for hire.
LARGE cave was recently disc0v-I
cred IN Montana which contained the
bones OF hundreds of animals that had
fallen into il and were unable to es-
cape.
The Rothschild family. of Europe.
says Herr Flurscheim. the German econ
Ornist. is estimated 70 be worth 81 oOO.-
100000, and their income 70 be $50. 4
600, 600.
THERE is a whirlpool in the Sante Fe
river, three miles northwest Of High
.IiAhH - Ids mo Wflcu 900 feet Of
line has been lowered without finding
bottom.
IL about eight ont Of ten cases Of di-.
vorce in the United States IL Is. from
statistics Of the past twenty wears.
found 20 be the wife who asks for .he
separation.
AT the school election at Evanston
I'll. recently. Mrs. Mary Willard. the
venerable mother Of Miss Frances
willard. cast her first vote. at the ripe
age Of 90 years
4 NAN has been arrested at Bedford
Pa. Tor sitting under the window Of his
divorced wife ia the small hours Of tho
night and playing Home. Sweet Home %
on q French harp.
THE last male bcir of Pulaski. the
distinguished Pole who aided the patri
ots of Che revolution. lives in Savannah
60. where hc earns scanty living
peodlIur small wares.
THE coffee crop o. Brazil has been s.
large that tho railroads Of one blocked.
every available car being in service.
freight dcults being crowded and fur.
thor receipts of coffee being declined