Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-03-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

IRE street railway postal delivery
system is n success in St. Louis
In Finland and East Turlxestan thun.
der storms are wholly unknown.
ton of sea water is supposed to con.
tam about fourteen grains of gole.
IT has been colder in Constant;nople
this winter than for fifty years past.
IN Pennsylvania n man has been fined
$1,000 for calling another Molly Ma
guire"
WRITER in the Critic estimates
Zola's literary earnings for twenty
years at $500, 0O0
If you were on the moon the earth
would appear TO you siNty-four times
larger than the sun.
Ar Norwich. England, thirty-fve
ton weight stone has been quarried. 1t
Is the largest on record
The California assembly has passed
bill making prize-fghting with or
without gloves n felony.
A MISSISSIPPI man is suing his wife
for divorce on the ground that she
makes him do the cooking.
cow at Gainesville, Tex, has an APP
stite for colored Autographs and post
bills, which it seems to enjoy.
LOUISVILLE girl who plays the cor.
net has discovered that playing wind
instruments produces dimples.
BIRD in the London ZOO, shell
drake, committed suicide recently on
account of the death of its mate
To BE up with the times you must not
call it foul air" any more. The new
medical name is crowd poison"
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1000 words man can transact all the
ordinary business matters of life.
j. w. Felkner of Palatla, Fla, is
the owner of an English coin which, he
claims, bears the date of the year 1874
GLADSTONE is TO be the name of the
new city To be founded by capitalists
on the bank of Little Bay D'Noc, Michi-
gan.
WOMEN are employed at railroad
switches and crossings in Italy because
they do not get intoxicated so often rs
the men.
Mrs. STEVENSON, wife of the vice
president-elect. has been elected presi-
dent Of the society of the Daughters of
the Revolution.
THE telautograph, an instrument for
transmitting messages in fac-simile at
any distance and with great rapidity, is
late invention.
REV. FRANCIS WELLS, who died late
ly at Bethlehem, Pa. is said 10 have
been the inventor OF the machine for
making paper bags
FORT SCoTr will soon have the largest
paper mill of any kind in the state OF
Kansas, and the only one that converts
cane pulp into paper
IT Is estimated that in the United
States and Canada six out of every ten
young men who have reached the age
of thirty are unmarried.
a TEXAS editor being asked why he
discontinued publishing replied, Every.
body else stopped my paper, so l con.
Guided that ! would too.
MISS JULIA BRYA ANT, daughter of VIM.
Cullen Bryant, the poet, has given 200
volumes from her fathers library to the
trustees of the Tnden trust
Mrs. ENlNoNs BLAINE has given So
900 with which 20 found n library for
the city OF Augusta. Ne The gift is in
honor Of her husbands memory.
An Andrew county (Mo.) man who
stopped the mail carrier in the road to
quarrel with him has been arrested for
delaying the United States mail.
JOHN NJ. WEBSTER, OF Tennessee. has
brought suit against his wife for dam
ages, because she would not allow him
to sell his farm and ferry for steam
boat
DEATH has no terrors for Mrs Annie
Besant What the majority of mankind
regard as theory 70 be decided she de
fines rs "a choice relief from the bur
den of the flesh"
HERMAN ENpEMANN, chemist, tcsti-
fed in the whisky trust inquiry the 9TH
er day that tablespoonful of any Of
the essences used in adulterating LIQUOR
would kill man.
lT cost Mrs. Fritz w Hinklev. nee
Florence Blythe, OF san Francisco
1854. 82i - to secure her inheritance Of
$4,000, 600, that being the amount
claimed 10y her lawyers and the cxecu-
trix
The imperial infantry and cavalry
bands Of Germany, composed OF one
hundred men, each of whom stands six
feet or more in height, has made an en-
gagcment 70 play at the Chicago
Worlds fair.
-.'- -At' t'tst-N NAiaa t.iflf AieIllNFN the
utmost care In the distribution of her
charities All the needy cases that
come 20 her notice are thoroughly in
vestiguted, and help is given only To
che really deserving
WHILE q peasant wedding party
was crossing the Dnicpcr near Fbater-
inosiav, Russia, Che ice broke and two
Eledges with ten persons disappeared
under the water All were swept nm.
der the ice and drowned
FROM statistic covering the last tbir.
ty-two years it is computed that the ave-
eragc life 81 women i'm France has boon
thirty-eight years. and Of men thirty.
six years During last year. however.
che average rose % forty years for both
sexes
QUEEy VICTORIA. Princess Christian
and Princess Beatrice viii each CON.
tribute at least ono original piece oi
literary work to che vomar.e exhibit
at thc Worlds fair
IuE greatest number OF peapIe ever
Killed by an earthquake since the dawn
Of history was 800. 600 The date oi
the terrible disaster was 1908 and tho
scene Of the most violent disturbance
ut hcddo. Japan. and vicinity
You may hire almost anvthir, ia
new York, even Co on aquarium stocked
with sea vegetation and strange rrra.
lures az The deep The aquarium is .u
occasional table ornament at n fees,