Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-03-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

"A DIMINUrIvE mirror in woman's
glove Is n new idea
A YOUNG New Yorker fell and broke
his leg in ballroom
THE British mint coins twenty five
tons of pennies every year.
A SAW in Philadelphia mill makes
ats way through steel bars four inches
thick
1T is said there has been but one
thunder storm in Arizona in fourteen
years
THE man of an average of l54 pounds
has enough iron in his make up to make
plowshare.
Two Chicago thieves impersonated
detectives and ransacked the trunk of
dead man the other day.
The Is. 600 miles of railroads in oper-
alton in South America have been built
within the past thirty years
MIR WINANs, the superintendent of
public instruction in Kansas, was form
erly briclSlayer in Atchison.
The electric street railway in Kear-
ney, Neb., sells monthly tickets for 81,
good for any number of rides
DURING the past four months more
than 81, 900, 600 in gold has been brought
to this country from Australia
TROPICAL moth, called the Atlas
moth, has a Widespread of one foot 1t
is gray in color aud flies by night
1T takes a fraction less than three
seconds for a message to go from one
end of the Atlantic cable to the other
IT is reported that a woman in the
South mountains, s. c., recently gave
birth to a child on her SEVENTEEN birth
day.
IT Is to Italy that the world owes its
ice cream, though doubtless Italy got
the idea from the sherbet of the Per
slams
BELOW FALLS, in Vermont, has a
seventeen-year-ol giant. He is six
feet eight inches tall and weighs 1s4
pounds
A BRONZE statue of Abraham Lin
coin was unveiled in Rochester. N V,
recently. 1t surmounts the soldiers
monument
The ten lines of railroads centering
in London send out 2.2lO suburban
trains day, carrying 400, 600, 600 passen-
gers n year.
CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw is to deliver
the address before the New York legis-
lature at the exercises in memory of
Gen Sherman.
THE curious information is given that
the crown of England, which is valued
at el00, 600. has been in pawn four times,
once for e., 600
BISMARCK will be seventy-seven years
old on the first of next month, and is
said to be as sturdy of mind and body
as he was at fifty.
The emerald is the stone of the hour;
the demand for the lovely gem is going
mp every day, and the price is increas-
ing in like ratio
THE oldest spoon in the world be-
longs to George A. Warren, of Indian
apolis. 1t is 229 years old, and was
brought from England
WILLIAM HARMON, a resisent of Titus.
vile, Pa, committed suicide few DAYS
ago from a melancholy conviction that
he was his own grandfather
THERE are 500 public baths in the
city of Toxic, Japan, where natives are
par boiled at a temperature of ITO de.
grees for sum equivalent TO one
cent
GEORGE KEENAN,, the American lee
turer and traveller. declares that he will
never cease agitating until the political
prisons of Siberia are things of the
past
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
was sung so naturally at concert
in Boston, it is reported, that many
listeners had symptoms of sea sick
ness"
MISSOURI is the first reproducing
state of the country. The nation S
total production was 234, sos tons last
year. and 90, 131 tons came from Mis-
souri,
IDAHO has one citizen for every
square mile of her territory. Or. to
speak accurately there are s4. 200 square
miles of land in the state and 81. 3s5
people.
The Hapsburgs are by far the richest
among the reigning families of Europe.
The private fortune of the emperor OF
Austria may be reckoned at about So
900, 900.
IN the days when wigs and powder
were fashionable, ladies are said to
have paid as much as 1900 for having
their hair dressed for special or state
occasions
PROP. Koch has written a Swedish
physician that he will not sell nor de-
scribe his improved tuberculine until
he shall have tested it beyond all
chance Of doubt in his clinics.
THE six Shields brothers. OF Collins
county, Tex, have an average height
of feet inches. and Col. Henry
Thurston. OF Titus county, Tex. towers
mp 70 the height Of feet ; inches.
As An evidence Of the fact that the
women are getting there, it may be
stated that the mum Der Of postmistress-
es in the country is $685. There are
200 in Kentucky, 100 in Indiana, 25G in
Ohio 13l in Tennessee. 100 in West Vir.
GINA. Pennsylvania has the largest
number. 4Ga
OH Of the largest salaries received
by any man in this country is paid "a
Mr. G. A. Griscom. chief Of the Interna-
tonal Navigation Co. with headauar.
ters at Philadelphia He draws $50 600
= year and they say he earns e.
WHEN Herbert Sprague. Of Bangor
went 90 bed the other night he carried
60 his room bull terrier pup Al mid.
night Sprague snored. and the doc
scratched his face 20 awaken him.
Sprague cuffcd the dog, whereupon the
animal, with true terrier instinct. seized