Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-08-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

lr costs Uncle Sam $3.50 "a shot 70 test
cannon plate and guns.
" AN Indian named Trout has been
drowned while bathing.
THE score of a baseball game ut Brcn.
ham. Tex. was III 10 H.
PHYSICIANS say that hay fever has al
most entirely disappeared
THE Turkish cavalry is admitted &C
be the finest in all Europe.
BENTON county MOI farmers are
feeding wheat 70 their hog.
THE name of jug Tavern, Ga, has
been changed 20 "Winder."
MTNNEAPoLIs' new directory shows
Its population TO be 222. 7O7.
THE anchors of the Campania weigh
sight and one-half tons each.
From 1914 20 1850 the Siberian mines
have produced ], 200 tons of gold.
SCIENTISTS have invented a device
which makes a sunbeam audible.
MoNREYrowN is the name of a new
postoffice in Nazoo county, Miss.
or every 10000 deaths in the United
States /, 42O are from consumption.
THE United States produces thirty
6Ve per cent OF all the lead OF the
world.
MARX TWAIN Is said to have received
S10O, 900 in royalties Tor his 'Innocents
Abroad"
MIcmeAN, Iowa. Vermont, wiscon-
sin and Illinois have no interest-bear-
ing debt
HARVARD, the Oldest American uni
versity was attended by 2, 96e students
last year.
The owner of hairless calf at Brad
ley Me, refused a showman's offer of
e5OO for it.
WOMEN are longer lived than men
Insurance tables are now being based
on this fact
LAKE MICHIGAN is twice rs deep as
Lake Superior and nine times as deep
Rs Lake Erie.
A BROOKLYN woman who is very fond
of cats has turned her house into a
feline asylum
a SHOEMAKER at Lynn. Mass, re-
pairs free every eleventh pair Of shoes
left TO be fixed.
HARRIET BEEcHEB SrowE's twin
daughters, who have turned forty, are
both unmarried.
a MINK, in one night, killed 1877 chick
ems owned by +. p Wagner, near
Springs City, Pa.
The japanese divide the day OF
twenty-four hours into twelve periods
of two hours each.
a sALooSKEEPER at New Albany,
Ind, has been prosecuted for keeping
two polecats as pets.
LEWIS IRIG, who has been sleeping
for three months, died near Chadron,
Ia, from starvation.
a Resident Of Missouri recently
g.
1000 pieces of wood.
OF all American generals Marion is
the favorite for town Names having so
cities called after him.
A BRooKLYN minister intends TO make
his church attractive to young men by
employing girls as ushers.
HUMAN blood is composed of n. 5 parts
of water. 62 of albumen, 14.1 Of color
ing matter and 1.9 of saline
IT is said that Carl Schurz is writing
n history of this country covering the
decade between 1850 and 1850.
ELLA EWING, of Clark county, stands
up for Missouri at Chicago 20 the ex.
tent Of eight feet two inches.
GovERNNENT detectives in some OF
the 'moonshine" districts carry lSodaks
with them TO secure evidence.
A COLLECTION Of postage stamps has
been disposed of for sixty thousand
francs by native OF Bordeaux
Is Great Britain the daily cost of "A
laborer's food is IS per cent Of his wages;
in the United States, IS per cent.
IN Great Britain the annual sick rate
for each inhatitant 10 ten days 20 the
year; in the United States, eight days.
PEW drops of compound tincture Of
benzOin on a wad of cotton is said 20 be
an excellent remedy for the toothache.
FORD CITY Pa is being deserted 10y
foreigners returning 70 Europe since
the plate glass works have shut down.
MYz AHBOU. Azel Abbou and Prince
Abdalia are three Syrians who have
purchased a farm near Fort Scott. Kan.
A Ma FISCHER has set up near Bel
ford, ". j., factory for making
horses into sausaRes for European con-
sumption
JOSEF H0FFNANS, the little prodigy
whose forte is the piano. has been play
ing 40 poorly Of late as 90 discourage
his father
Edison, the inventor, recently said
that be never owned a watch in his
life. II never want 20 know what time
81 Is, he says
MHs. GEo. MAsox, OF Geneva. o.. has
plant 81 double hollyhock. the bios
SONS Of which are nearly a JET black
It IL a novelty
MExIco sends the United states every
year 1000. 600 worth Of "heuiaueD'
rope. the cordage out 81 which ham.
mocks are mad
a FLoIuDA man has q foudness for
alIfuafora and &C. aafa 20 La,- r4-.-.I -