Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-08-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

WOMEN. on the average. marry four
years earlier in life than men.
THE value OF Canada's fisheries yield
last year is announced as s1S. Gal. III
a NEW variety of orange from the
West Indies meets with much favor.
Two-rHmDs of the gold now in use
has been discovered within fifty years.
SOM of the most palatable chick
en-" croQuettes about this time are made
of veal
CLOVER grows wild in Europe and
Asia Ii was first cultivated in Holland
in 1860
MASSACHUSETTS has one public IL
brary for every four thousand OF its in
habitants
WASHINGTON man has been arrested
charged with selling beer as soup in
large bowls.
FUNERAL procession was attacked
and routed by hornets at Plainfeld, n.
J.. recently.
TIE German empire has 5,276, 600
farms, of which ., 1850 are cultivated
by the owners.
TAXING all the year round the coolest
hour of the twenty.four IS five o'clock
in the morning.
The duke of York has become n ten
ant farmer, and is to try his luck breed
ing Berkshire pigs.
ALL the schools in the south of
Russia are being closed on account of
the prevalence of cholera.
The village of Millbroolx, in Dutch
county, New York, counts eleven mil
honaires among its residents
The public schools Of this country
have three hundred and sixty-nine
thousand teachers and thirteen million
pupils
BELGIUM proposes TO open an exposi-
ton next May. but the next great in
ternational fair will be held in Paris
in 1900.
LONDON adds nine thousand new
houses annually 10 its already immense
number, and twenty-eight miles of new
streets.
a NEW YORK soubrette advertised for
the return Of her long golden-haired
wig, in the metropolitan papers. few
days ago.
FISH fruit and rare steaks should be
the diet of the aged, according to a
magazine writer who forgets the
monotony.
OWING to the hard times six of the
seven churches in a Kansas town have
dismissed their pastors and all wor-
ship together
A KANSAS barber six months ago
taught his wife how 10 shave, and now
she is boasting that she can shave two
men to his one
II is new theory that watercresses
act on the lungs beneficially. Moreover
they are declared TO possess wonderful
tonic properties.
The Croton nqueduct is forty miles
long. having sixteen tunnels and
collecting reservoir of three million
gallons capacity.
NAM-DRIvISG contests for women
competitors are a leading feature at
county fairs and social gatherings in
Missouri just now.
a PARIS medical journal declares
1aundice is. or can be cured by eating
nothing but lettuce and lemons What
do the doctors say?
A SAFETY envelope just patented is
so folded and pasted together that il
can not possibly be opened without be.
ing entirely destroyed
a BROOKLYN thief was BETRAYED b,
his buttons, two of which he left be.
hind in the fanlight Of house he had
robbed a few days ago.
Is every mile of railroad there Is
seven feet and four inches that is not
covered by the rails-the space left be-
tween them for expansion.
An Italian woman left her husband
in pawn with a creditor in New York
recently while she went to cash a check
with which % pay the debt
The Renville l5linnJ authorities
have put N. j. Bowling, an editor. in
jail for refusing TO pay his poll tax.
He has neither legs nor arms.
The finest specimen OF native gold
ever found was in Ural nugget. which
gave nearly 90 per cent of gold. the
balance being silver and copper.
a nugget Of gold ore containing
twenty-one ounces OF gold. and worth
about $500 was picked no in a creek
near Grants Pass, Ore, recently.
The largest waves are seen off Cane
horn' between latitude 50 $. and longi-
tude lJj W.. rising % 46 feet i'm height
and '65 feet long from crest 20 crest.
lT takes seven days after death. ac-
cording % siamcse belief. for the soul
TO reach Heaven, and prayers are kept
up during that period 90 help IL on its
way.
By the tenth census 23.OiO. 600 inhab-
itants of the United States were sun
ported by agriculture, 1850. 900 bv
manufacture and 5000. 900 bv com
mcrce
TIM National Bank Of italy. like the
Bank Of England. manages the fnanc..
Of the government u IS practical
monopoly and has Dranchcs in every
large cItv.
CONSTANT AGovY was the sad name
ri % track walker ou the Delaware d.
Hudson railroad. who was struck and
instantly killed bv an express train. at
Eeckmautown. ". s.. "a few DAVIS ago
ImE destination Of one 81 the duchess
Of Gorks wedding cakes was "A door
home in the east end Of London One
OF the cakes was feet inches high
and weighed between 500 and 300
weight
PHortmY the greatest feat Co. boz ac-
compHshci bv fisherman this season
has been done by Charles S. Wheeler a
Californian. who recently landed "a 81
pound salmon with fourteen puro.
split bamboo god
JuDcE HErriFIp. of Elizabeth NJ T.
fined Sam Wing twenty f.IIsre f,-