Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-02-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

air IN London every night
A RACE horse clears from twenty to
twenty-four feet at n bound.
Ii is SO cold in the northern part OF
Sweden, the mercury freezes.
A SALISBURY IN. c. woman is re-
ported TO be cutting her third set of
teeth.
BALTIMORE has SOS churches. and
claims to be the greatest church city in
America
A BILL providing for three-cent
street car far in Illinois is before the
legislature.
KENTUCKY has. it is said. more wom-
en- school commissioners than any other
Southern state.
ITALY expends every year SOC, OOO. 600
for her soldiers, and less than e., 0OO, 900
for her schools
Two Indians who live in Atchison,
Kan, wear plug hats, and one of them
has mustache.
FRANK q. CARPENTER, the well-known
newspaper correspondent, has taken to
the lecture field
A JOHNSON county (Mo. man has been
convicted of stealing cracker and n
chew of tobacco.
EXTENSIVE surveys have lately been
made for a cable between North Amer
lea and Australia
JANUARY is reputed to be regarded
by the shopping world rs the linen
month of the year.
The original manuscript of "Scots
wha haze wi Wallace bled," is owned by
Mrs. J. G.. Burns, of Dublin
THE public school system of Hawaii
is excellent There are few OF the ma
tives who can not read and write.
THE population OF the Sandwich is
lands is 10000, and they are in area
about one-sixth as large as the state of
Ohio.
THERE is a bill before the New Hamp-
shire legislature which provides for the
purchase of Daniel Webster's birth
place.
RIPE bananas put up in cans with
condensed milk are said to make a nu-
tritious food for those who like the
flavor
THERE is said to be an insurance com.
pany in Paris that refuses to issue poll.
cies on the lives of any people who use
hair dye.
AMERICAN money is in universal use in
the Hawaiian Islands, and nine-tenths
of the trade of the islands are with the
United States
OF the sixty-four cardinals who com
pose tho sacred college but five are
English-speaking and only one of these
is an American.
FLORIDA is 10 have a confederate
home. A place on the Shell road, four
miles from Jacksonville, has been Sc
lected as the site.
NEW telephone companies are already
organizing, and in ST. Louis private
families are furnished telephone SER
vices at $50 year.
New York is proposing Worlds
fair for 1897 in New York city, in com
memoration of the discovery of North
America by John Cabot
A MONUMENT 10 Gov. John Sewer. OF
Tennessee, has been raised in the court.
house lawn in Knoxville. 1t will be
formally unveiled in May.
NEW YORK city is TO have one of the
largest public schools ever erected.
About ., 400 pupils will be accommo-
dated in the mammoth structure.
EDWARD II. PAYsoS, of Salem. Mass.
has filed the position of cashier in one
bank for sixty-seven years He is nine.
" years old, and recently resigned his
position.
The Texas legislature is considering
proposition TO exempt factories from
taxation for ten years Such a law was
in force in South Carolina up To a few
years ago.
A COMMITTEE of classical scholars in
Italy are trying TO raise funds 10 build
monuments in honor of four ancient
Romans OF Virgil, Sallust,
Horace and Cicero.
EX-PEEsIDENT HAYES did not carry n
watch The experience of having his
chronometer twice stolen from him made
so much trouble that he declined t.
tempt another thief
a BALTIMORE man who paid his fare
IN cable line in that city got caught
IN tie-uP and was awarded s. damages
by the court because the conductor re-
fused to return his fare.
SINCE the discovery of the diamond
fields Of South Africa in 1867 there have
been exported from Cape Colony 80. OOO..
600 carats OF diamonds. weighing over
ten tons and valued at $3.50, 600 OOO
THE most terrific explosions on record
were those at the eruption Of the vol
cano Of Krakatoa in August 1888. The
furthest point at which this eruption
was heard from the island OF Rodriguez
2,96s miles southwest
TIKI vice presidents room at the cap
itol is luxurious apartment, and one
Of its chief features is the fireplace Il
has been the custom, IL is said. 20
give the retiring vice president ,the
fender. tongs, poker, etc, belonging
thereto
THE heir 20 the Austrian throne.
when he becomes emperor. will govern
nine countries, bear eighteen titles
e. duke, one az archdulse two as grand
duke and also thirty other titles
CAPT joins ADAM COOPER is the
youngest veteran Of the Mexican war.
having enlisted at the age OF twelve. He
IS also the pioneer horse-car driver OF
San Francisco, having been In the bust.
ness twenty-uine years
THE highest trcstlc on the line Of the
Northern Pacific railway is that across
the Coriscian dcfle. about twelve miles
west Of Missoula. Mont The track
level 81 exactly 800 feet inches aboss
the rocks In the gorge below
SENATOR DAVIS. OF Minnesota. is nj.
most blind in one eve, and the trouble
had curious origin. lie was exposed
a. !.