Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-02-22
CURRENT TOPICS.


world is beet sugar.
THE inventor of the velocipede is to
have a statue in Franco.
THE Inauguration of President Cleve-
land viii cost about $50, 900.
THIRTEEN universities have been sup
pressed by the Italian government
An epidemic of sneezing is reported
TO have broken out in Jamaica, l.. /.
GRESHAM Is a record breaker. He had
two cabinet portfolios under Arthur.
DIGNFIED and moral Philadelphia
had twenty divorce cases in one day.
MAPLE sugar-makers are predicting n
great season for that toothsome prod
uct.
A MURDERER hanged in Albania paid
his lawyer his last nickel on the scat
fold.
CATS are being extensively used in
New Zealand for the destruction of
rabbits
Two women are fighting in the courts
at Atlanta, Ga, over the ownership OF
a rooster.
AFARMER who lives near Lamar. Mo,
has a beard which measures seven feet
in length.
THERE are fourteen women and two
men in one of the church choirs ut Otta-
wa, Kan.
SAN Francisco boasts of "a highway
man in buggy" and two highway
lady robbers
A LARGE plant for the purpose of
freezing sturgeon is to be established at
halamn, Wash.
NEW YORK has at least ninety monu-
ments erected to her dead on Gettys-
burg battlefield
SOME of the fine old oak trees of Wav-
erly, Mass, are supposed to date from
the tenth century.
A FRENCHNIAS has written a volume
oysters rest the brain.
THE ice on Sand Beach harbor Michi-
gan is seventeen inches thick, the thick
est clear ice since 1883
THE lost books of Euclid, in Sansl1rit,
are said to be now in the library of the
Maharajah of Jeypore.
A LAUNDRY in England. owned by
women and employing only females,
earned So, 900 last year.
ALUMINIUM tobacco pipes are the lat
est invention. The bowl is, however,
lined with meerschaum
A CHEDDER cheese valued at S4ST and
composed of hundreds of smaller cheeses
will be exhibited at the Worlds fair
IT is stated that great number OF
small frozen frogs fell with n snow
storm in Fulton county, Pa, recently.
OF TIE IS female depositors in
the savings banks of Philadelphia. $, 42G
are described as Observation-Disclosures.
THE colored citizens of America pro-
pose to hold grand jubilee on the
Worlds fair grounds, on August II,
1898.
The Chicago Historical society has a
novel written by President James Mad
ison called Jonathan Bull and Mary
Bull
BoBBYs BURNS is to have a statue
erected at Denver. Col, w. Grant
Stevenson, of Edinburg, being the de
signer.
1HE Hong Kong papers say the few
Englishmen in the service Of China are
being replaced by Germans, Belgians
and Americans,
DURING the past twenty years 32s, OOc
divorces have been granted by the
courts of the United States, 90 per cent
of them TO women.
IN one of the Catholic churches in
Chicago congregational singing OF
hymns in the language of the people
has been introduced.
Mrs. DEWITT TALMAGE makes her
husbands pastoral and social en-
gagements, and all his lecturing inter.
ests are IN her hands
THE curios of the late King Fernando,
of Spain, are for sale at auction, which
will last two months, and the catalogue
comprises 1000 articles.
u Hawaii the climate is said to be so
remarkably equable that the Hawaiian
language has no word to express the
general idea OF weather.
THE Church of All HallCws in Lon
don still possesses an income originally
given 90 IL for the purpose Of buying
faggots for burning heretics
Mrs. MARY a. ANDERSON was elected
assistant sergeant-at-arms TO the Ar
kansas house of representatives, defeat
ing twenty candidates Of the opposite
sex.
Gov. FLoEEs. Of the Mexican state OF
Durango, belieycs that he has discov-
cred the famous mountain OF gold, the
legend Of which is a household story in
Mexico.
Az American girl rules the republic
Of Guatemala. through her husband.
the president, Cen Barrios She IS the
leader Of all woman movements in tina.
country.
THERE is a pond in the vicinity Of
Chestertown, Md, that has never been
known, IL Is said. 90 have even a skim Of
ice on its surface, and during the la.e
cold spell it is said that 10 was not
frozen particle.
CLOTURE (the French form Of thc
word closure} means. briefly. the shut
ting of Of debate and Of motions. so as
90 force a direct vote ~ be taken on She
question before the house.
The city Of Seattle, Wash, will here
after employ all idle men who WISH ~
work They will be furnished with
tools and will be paid eighty cents for
every cord Of wood they chop for the
city
a PINK butter bill" is the latest leg.
islative fad fro Missouri 10 declares
that oieomargarinc or butterine sold in
that state must be colored pink. so aq
% indicate on its face that IL is not the
real article
OEE o. the largest forests iD the
world stands on ice. 10 is situated be-
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