Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-10-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

More people die in the spring than
In any of the other seasons
FLOUR made of sweet potatoes is one
OF the latest of culinary inventions
NATIONAL grants in aid of education
were first made in the United States in
1905.
SAUK RAPIDS. with a population of
400 souls, is without single drug
store.
THE shortest names mentioned in the
Bible are Al, Ar, Ed, og, No, On, SO, Ur
and Uz
An unfortunate mother in Hannibal,
Mo, has two sons and daughter in the
penitentiary.
A PEAR that weighs over thirty
ounces is on exhibition at a drug store
in Atlanta, Ga.
A MISSOURI man has patented n We
locipede which is worked by the riders
hands and arms
The Episcopal diocese of Vermont is
10 have an Englishman, Arthur Hall, of
Oxford, for bishop.
A WIDOW has nearly broken up
church at Binghamton, n. V. because
she rides bicycle.
AN Oregon woman has just received
a decree for S25, 600 in a suit for
breach of promise.
AT the present rate of increase there
viii be 100, 600, 600 people in the United
States in fifty years.
a NEW YORK thief has been arrested
for stealing Catholic priests clerical
garb and pawning it.
THERE is falling off in the number
of children attending the public schools
IN New York this fall
ONE of the latest fads is the organiza-
ton of postal card society for the col
lection Of postal cards.
A METHODIST bishop out west who
uses a chapel car speaks of It as the
Holy Roamin' church"
A WRITER in the London News says
that American tools are far better than
those of European make.
THERE are at the present moment
eleven pretenders to the various thrones
of Europe trying to make good their
claims
Cor Gus LEFrwIcH, of the Miami
(Mo.) News, is the proud possessor of "A
stalk Of corn nineteen and one-half
feet high.
The young of the polype grow from
the body of the parent like buds, and
when almost grown are separated by "a
sudden jerk.
a SHAWNEE lad, who entered the In
dian school in Virginia as Tommy Wild
Cat remains under the dignifed name
of Thomas W. Gait.
AN American living in France has
succeeded in making clock entirely
of paper, which viii run two years
without wearing out.
The tartar on the human teeth is
filed with animalculae, which are de-
stroyed by vinegar Vinegar itself con-
tains eel-lille insects.
FEMALE queen ant is always at
tended by one or u@re servants to car
~ off her eggs, of which she lays from
5000 10 10000 year.
Is order TO furnish sport a shooting
party on his Moravian estate Baron
Hirsch had 5000 partridges transported
there in cages and liberated
y PRETTY charity, that of furnishing
street car tickets TO poor invalids for
rides in the suburbs of the city, is prac-
ticed successfully in Boston.
THE honor OF christening the battle
ship Oregon, when she j. launched ia
San Francisco. has been allotted 70 Miss
Daisy Ainsworth. of California.
A VERY sad death is that OF Miss
Annie Lotus, of New York, who ex-
pired in the arms OF her lover two
nights before her wedding day
JAMES r. RANuALL, OF Georgia. au-
thor Of Maryland, My Maryland. has
been appointed 90 position under
the sergeant-at-arms Of the senate
Mrs. ADA VI. BIrrENBESpER. the pro-
hibition candidate for supreme Judge
Of Nebraska. practices law with hei
husband. She is a native of Bradford
county, Pa.
IN is said that there is no case on
record in Massachusetts where. a YER
dict being set aside i'm "a capital case
and "a second trial granted, q conviction
was secured.
a MOVEMENT has seen inaugurated at
scranton, Pa, 90 i'ni a choir of 100
Welsh-Americans TO Wales next year 20
represent the United states at the ma
tional eisteddfod
BUFFALO BILL has bought $40, 600
residence in North Platt. Neb.. very
near the spot where hc killed his first
Indian, and there he intends 90 spend
the rest of his life
Isl the Mexican exhibit. 80 the Worlds
fair the som brcro is seen iu ALI its glory.
III takes 500 90 buy one of comparativ.
ypiain make. while really ornate hat
~ this kind costs $500
HESEY DOYLE, OF Pittsburgh. cIifnted
o chestnut tree near New Bedford. lie
fell. and. bis clothing catching ON 90
limb. held him fast head downward.
We was nearly dead when found
THE most highly priced piece of am
cestral si.serwarc preserved by the
Ices, ~ Virginia. is a mammoth -l.rrup
cup. which even whom empty IS Uur-
den 4or two stalvart men % Iift up.
IS PATENT has been granted iu Aucs-
land. New I,aIarH form u.t % catch
whales The mesh is biz enough for 70
calf 90 pass through and 10 i- said GO
have been used already with great -ue-
cesE
IHE selling OF antlcrcd bucks heads
BE- just now ono Of the industries of the
North Woods The heads are sold at 81
each. and &C. costs fi8 more 90 prepare
one Tor use as bat rack lr val. orua-
ment
FHE observatory on THE top of Nft
Blanc Do arr accomplished fact TIc
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