Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-02-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

NOVELTIES in paper weights are those
that have place for photographs on
top
TINY roller in silver tank of water
.is something new in wetting postage
stamps
Now they say only politicians and
country swells ever wear shiny black
silk hat
Chicago is about to erect on the lake
front public library building to cost
81. zoo. 900.
THERE is wind and storm insurance
company doing business in Pennsylva-
mia counties.
THE Russian Grand Duke Alexis owns
pet mongrel dog that has saved six
human lives
THIRTEEN tons of postage stamps are
said to have been sold in New York
city last year.
THERE are is. $50 papers printed in
the United States. of which mum Der
l,791 are dailies.
IHE farms of Colorado produced $751;
600. 600 last year, and the mines of the
state Ss3. $4,000.
STURGEON. like Grant. loved n good
cigar, and he smoked almost as many
of them rs the general did.
A MICHIGAN milliner charged twenty
cents admission TO her wedding for the
benefit of the church fund.
AT the next presidential election. it
Is estimated that more than IL. 500. 600
men VIII have the right TO vote.
ENGINEERS began at ST. Louis the
survey of the Chicago and st. Louis
Electrical railway n few DAYS ago
VENUS and Jupiter. although draw
ing apart present q lustrous and beau
uful appearance in the western sl<y.
OSCAR WILDE, having exhausted all
the possibilities of absurdities in other
directions is now posing as n socialist
The war department reports that
there are s,567, $50 men in the United
States who are available for military
duty.
a FARMER in North Carolina has n
bog that measures feet 6 inches in
length and feet inches around the
body.
Rev THOMAS DIXON estimates that
out of 500, 900 Protestants in New York
city less than 100, 600 go regularly to
church.
GIRLS in a Massachusetts school are
on strike because the teacher of phys
icaI culture require them to abandon
corsets.
MARY CHENowrrH the chief apostle
OF Christian science, is eight times over
a millionaire, and lives in house with
100 rooms
The Chinese of Los Angeles have
Quit a gorgeous new joss house the
carvings and altar of which are valued
at $50. 600
Samuel Campbell. of Port ROYAL ia
the Oldest school teacher in the United
States, having trained the young idea
for So years.
The numerical strength of the Grand
Army of the Republic is greater in Ohio
than In any other state, the enrolment
being IS, 522.
ARTILLERY salutes were fred in diff
ferent parts of Louisiana over the lot
terry decision OF the United States SUI
preme court.
IT Is claimed that cider enough was
made in Connecticut the past season TO
supply all the consumption east of the
Rockies for year.
The wealth of j. A. Morris the heod
of the Louisiana lottery. is estimated
at $50. 100000 but he never succeeded in
getting into society.
DIR ABBoTr created small sensation
m Boston the other day by announcing
an the course of his lectures that the
IA of Adam is an entirely unnecessary
belief.
HE oldest man now living who was
an American soldier in the war of 1879
is thought TO be benjamin Poor. of Ray
mond. n. ii. He is now nincty-seyen
years old
H. X. II. ALBERT EDWARD. il is inter
esting 70 learn, wears an eighteen and
half collar and has forty five chest.
thirty-four arm and a forty-two and
q half waist
As financial speculation. il is bet
Ger 10 be car OF Russia than presi.
dent OF the United States One is paid
about $4,000 per day and the other
slST, but it IS rather safer being presi-
dent
ONE of the handsomest presents re-
celved by the empress OF Russia when
her silver wedding was celebrated was
an ermine mantle which cost $50. 600
~ was a gift from the nobility OF the
province OF Kherson. but was made in
Paris.
LORD TENSYsoN's poem on the death
OF the duke Of Clarence was only seven
teen lines in length. but very gushing
for its size. The criticisms il has bee1
attracting in the London iournaIs
are generally longer and much more
pointed
Wirn only 1900 population. Union
Springs, y. Y. has eight churches The
last. now being built has ono male
and SIX female members. u is the re-
suit Of n lcrucy. requiring its erection
within certain period Co prevent the
money from going IN another direction
IHE handsomcst man in CONGRESS- and
= particular favorite among the ,eopor,
lobbyists is Mr. Duoarro,v. OF Chicago
who IS rich, bachelor but So vcar. az
age anc has never made speech
fEiNcEss VICTORIA KArvltyt Tho
heir prcsumptivc 60 o.. Hawaiian
throne BE- girl OF sixteen years. WHO'S
no" studying in England She expects
To- finish hey education at an Amer.
con womcu's coilcre
ELAzr in the foor of Boston cleo.
'ric car. requiring twenty m .nutcs for
its eSiinguishment, 81 evidence that tho
fiery demon which moves these car.
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