Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-09-20
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IN 1874 all London houses were com
,elled for the first time to bc connected
with sewers.
A CALF having seven legs" is the
latest monstrosity reported from New
Brunswick, \. j.
SINCE 1870 the worlds production OF
meat has increased 81 per cent, that of
grain 400 per cent
A MARRIED couple at Raleigh, \. c.,
are aged ninety-nine and ninety-three
years respectively.
THERE are 6S2 colored school children
In Cole county, Mo, $40 boys and the
same number of girls
MISSOURI, when admitted TO the
union in 1921, had fifteen counties and
q population of 10000
The little boys at Devine, Tex, are
great cotton PiclIers, picking as high
as 100 TO $50 pounds day.
CoUNr ToLsToI has just finished an
inquiry into social matters which is 20
be published soon in English.
DARWIN says that the light of the
FREELY is caused by the slow combus-
ton of phosphorus in the system
The guillotine upon which Marie An
toinette was beheaded is claimed to be
on exhibition at the Worlds fair
The trichine found in infected pork
are sometimes so numerous that SO, 600
have been found to the cubic inch.
JOHN MoRRIs, of Yorkville, Racine
county, Wis, is the possessor of a Curl
osity in the shape of horned hog.
The Veragua fund still consists of
cavity surrounded by n great lack Of
confidence and filed with stringency.
IT is claimed that Missouri's sorghum
crop this season will be the greatest
ever known in the history of the state
Mrs. LILLE DEvEREUx BLAKE treas
ures among her possessions a elbow
brocaded silk dress worn by Theo osia
Burr.
WAsPs are the most inveterate
enemies of flies Reaumur says he has
known one wasp to kill thousand flies
in a day.
In recognition of his services in con-
nection with the Behring sea arbitra-
ton, Hon c. IL Upper has been
knighted.
TEE confederate monument at Chi
cago will be unveiled October Z. Col
W. c. p. Breckenridge will be the orator
of the day.
AS showing the hardness of the
times bold highwayman the other
day held mp n palace car porter and
'only got So
IN the United States and British
America there are 1901 Sunday
schools. These are attended by over
ten million pupils.
A BUNCH o. sweet peas placed on q
piece of newspaper makes an excellent
hy-trap. The flies are said to suck the
deadly sweet of the flower and then
die.
A HEN owned by an Atchison CKan.)
farmer, which recently Matched out
brood of ducks, says the Kansas City
Journal, has become a natural swim
mer.
LIGHTNING struck tree in Fitch
burg, n. Y, the other day. and laid
open cavity filed with choice honey.
But not bee, dead or alive, was Wis
ible
A YOUNG woman of Kalamazoo. Mich,
whose lover was recently sentenced in
Toledo for forgery. followed him to the
jail, procured license and married
him
Mrs. LIE BEAU, daughter of Mark
Beaubien, the man who, in 1888, built
the first frame house in Chicago, was
visitor at the Worlds fair the other
day.
The sad news comes that President
Carnot, of France, is suffering from a
cancerOus affection of the liver, which
will require a dangerous operation
soon.
The tenth census shows that "a
100000 inha bitants Of the United States
are supported by agriculture, II, $40, 600
by manufac lures and $500, 600 by com
merce.
a NORTH CAROLINA girl was halted
on the highway by three men. She
whipped out pistol, and firing on the
crowd, wounded one man and put them
ali TO flight
EX-SENATOR THOMAS W. PALMER. Of
Michigan. has presented 10 the city OF
Detroit for park purposes a farm OF one
hundred acres on which his grandfather
fled an entry in 1920.
The publishers OF the Chicago CITY
directory claim that the statistics gath
cred by them show that Chicago has
now population Of . 100, 600. or 400. 600
more than New York
" G. CBEDE. the founder Of Creole
Col, who was poor man a few years
ago has purchased for $40. 900 house
in Los Angeles, CAL where he intends
"a reside for his health
Asa BAHSErr, JH a railroad brake
man residing in Lexington. Ky. caught
with pole and i'm. from the water
works reservoir u German carp weigh
ing sixteen and a half pounds.
Tm latest born son Of the crown
prince and princess OF Greece makes
the number OF the queens rrcat-grand.
children sixteen. llc is the eleventh
grandchild Of the I'm r. Fredefcx.
IHE schooner Folly. which was
launched at Amesburv. Mass. in ls8t.
is believed 90 be the oldest ve.eeI
ahoat The Polly l uoa harbored at
Bocklaud Ne
SNAKEs are more numerous along
The Mississippi. and Wisconsin river
bottoms than ever before and many
large rattIers have been killed They
ere driven from The highlands by The
dry weather
ANXIOUS mothers with marriagcable
daughters might lo worse than cmi.
CRATE ~ Johannesburg. in the Trans
vaaL The population If chat place is
said ~ be on tine 1aei. Of ton mon f,.
lverv woman