Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-13
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covered IN Queensland which climbs
trees
DURING 1891 there were 1872 persons
arrested in New York for attempted
suicide.
A LITTLE Philadelphia boy has n pet
rabbit which he has trained to draw a
small wagon.
COTTON stalks of deep red color and
producing red bolls have appeared in
Middle Georgia.
DURING the past twenty years there
have been 32S.sl6 divorces granted in
the United States.
IN fifteen years the orange export of
California has increased from nothing
to 5000 600 pounds.
THE Detroit board of public works
has sued contractor for stealing and
carting off two avenues
LABoUcHERE says that the Princess
May. who is engaged to Collars and
Cuffs, is decidedly pretty.
lT is estimated that at least $50. O00,-
600 OF the governments paper money
has been lost or destroyed
OF the 1864 deaths in New York
city the past ysar, Is, 225 were of chill
dren under five years of age.
1T has been estimated by Shoe.
man that the people of the United
States spend $780, O00 600 annually for
shoes.
Mrs. JOHN SHERWOOD says il is not
unusual for a New York hostess to
spend 81, 900 on "A luncheon for twenty
women.
III n well could be dug to the depth of
forty-six ciles, the density of the air at
the bottom would be as great as that of
quicksilver
Me- YORK is said to employ an army
of cash girls 80 900 strong, many OF
whom are nearer twelve than fourteen
years OF age.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is patrolling
broadway, New York, every afternoon
in the most extensive fur coat ever seen
east of Duluth
FOLDING linen is an accomplishment
IN which each woman in Holland is ex-
pected to be proficient before she be-
comes mistress of home
JuDGE Moon, of Chattanooga, has
charged the grand jury to investigate
railroad accidents and punish employees
where carelessness is shown.
JOHN REDMOND, who has been chosen
over Michael Davitt by the people of
Waterford. was once clerk in the
house of commons, at $3.50 year
FAIR maidens and timid bachelors
this is leap year. Custom has defined
your respective privileges and the lest
interests of society demand their eXer-
else
a cLERKsHIP in the agricultural de-
partment, Washington. has been secur-
ed by Frederick Douglass for girl
whose father owned him in slavery
days
THERE are some queer folks in Eng
land. In Dover certain persons. suf-
fering from influenza, have been fined
So apiece for appearing in public
places
y DIssoLUTE linguist, a teacher OF
seven different languages, has been
jailed 1t Laramie, Wyo., for beating
ms wife, who supported MIN by taking
in washing.
RoAsrrD crickets are a favorite art;
Gle of diet with some tribes OF Utah
and California Indians, while among
others the grasshopper is reli,hed as
culinary delicacy.
{. a. DOUGHERTY, who is secretary %
the American legation in Mexico. is =
son OF Daniel Dougherty of the silver
tongue. He once occupied similar
position in Rome.
THE space devoted to the Chicago
World 5 IA Is 600 acres. Philadelphia
had 236 and Paris l48. The buildings
VIII cover $50 acres and the cost OF
equipment viii be s14, 9OO, 600
BURROWS are now made from pota-
toes. The tuber is treated with acids.
hardened y means of great pressure
and the buttons manufactured frofn it
can not be distinguished from those OF
bone.
woMAN has just died in Connect
cut whom the doctors gave but year
TO live. way back in 1917. The art OF
healing has not reached the stage of
infallibility and prophecy is not one OF
its gifts.
OREGON and Washington papers have
been full OF reports OF second crops of
fruit gathered out there, and of flowers
found growing on the wayside. The
latest crop indicated by telegraph was
a blizzard
THE rates for the transportation of
corpses on railways are so high i'm Ger
many that the Berlin Crernatorv so
Getty Is Petitioning 20 have them re-
luced. as 1t materially interferes with
its business
The smallest railroad in the world
-dns between Ravengiass and Boot. in
Cam berland, England. IL is hardly
more than toy affair. FOR which the
engineer acts as fireman, conductor.
ticket agent and porter
JHE German government has sent a
circular 20 all the state railways 90 the
effect that the depressing financial con-
ditiOn IS such that all ,yares must Ic
reduced and all men dropped from the
pay rolls who can be possibly spared.
PRINCESS LOUfsF and Mrs Harrison
are the only women ever permitted 90
set foot Within the cloisters Of the
monastery Of Santa barbara After
their departure the ground trodden bv
them was recousccrated with solemn
ceremonies and much fasting and
prayer
MISS CONsUETo VANDERHnT. the four.
teen-year-old daughter Of SIR. w. X.
Vanderbilt, Is a beautiful child with
hair and eyes a. dark as Spanish
gypsy. and the imperioue rnauuor. ~ "a