Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-08-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

edge back.
AN aluminium bridge over Gibraltar
IS proposed.
SIXTY thousand people in ireland
speak Irish only.
Coal mines were begun in PennSyl-
vania in 1854 at Pittsburgh.
GLASS curtains are coming into use
and are said 10 give satisfaction.
HoGG, BACON 4 Frier is the name of
mercantile firm in western Australia.
FOURTEEN Negro lawyers have been
admitted TO practice at the Georgia
bar.
A sEATURrLE weighing 1000 pounds
was captured near Portland, Maine, re-
eentiy.
TIE salt sea was the home OF oysters
from fourteen 20 twenty inches in di-
ameter
ILLINOIS now has a new crime added
10 the penal code; il is called wife de
sertion.
Mas JULIA CUMMINGS, aged III years,
of Red Bank. y. j., has son who is 81
years old
HArLsroRMs very rarely occur in
countries where there is large growth
of timber
MORE machinery IS moved by the Mer-
rimac river than by any other stream in
the world.
The post Office department costs $780,
100000 year, and has revenue of
SCI, 600. 600
The loss of champagne by bursting
bottles sometimes amounts TO twenty
i've per cent
The catalogue of the books in the Ii
brary of the British museum occupies
1900 volumes.
BRADsrREEr makes the estimate that
since June 1 soc, 900 employees have lost
their situations
Official reports from the Mexican
government show l,s75 Mormon resi-
dents in Mexico.
EVERY man in the French republic is
required by law to serve at least one
year in the army.
IMITATION pearls are nowadays so
skillfully made that they are prettier
than the genuine.
EVERY regiment of the British army
IN India has been rearmcd with the
new magazine rifles.
The 43d anniversary of the admission
OF California rs n state viii be cele-
brated in September
AwoMAN of Seabright, n J., took ad-
vantage of the fact that her husband
was in bathing TO elope
TIE proposed Trans-Siberian railway
will be the longest in the world 1t
will be over 5000 miles long.
COLLECTOR CLARK, of Chicago. is
called upon to appraise seven barrels of
water from the River Jordan.
THERE ura tr,-,, r,,,,,rt,s,. =.
California that are estimated to contain
lo6, 100000 tons of pure alum.
\ LUMP OF nickel weighing 1900
ounds, exhibited at the Worlds fair,
worth half as many dollars.
LORD SALISBURY is said To be the
only prime minister since the time of
Eliza beth who has worn "A beard
THERE was a financial bank at Baby
Ion as early as zoo B. c., and, so far as
known. it was the first on record.
a HORSE thief was run down and cap
tured by policemen mounted on bicy-
cles, at bloomsbury. Pa, recently.
ONE of the most curious farms in the
United States and one of the most
profitable is a frog farm in Illinois
HAVING an income now of 500, 600 "A
day, the Worlds fair managers see an
expanding rift in the financial cloud.
IT appears that in Massachusetts
nearly twice as many women as men
live 10 be more than eighty years old.
a SNAKE that climbs up the glass
walls of its polished cage is an attrac-
ton in the Natural History museum az
Paris
\ SKowHEGAN (Me) man had quite
tussle TO drive three hungry deer out OF
his bean patch 1t was illegal 70 shoot
them.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN lives on SD
week If he had SIS he says he would
not know what TO do with the extra
dollar.
IT is estimated that there are nearly
100000 acres OF unoccupicd govern
ment land in Kansas still open for set
Element
PROP. HOLDEN says that the cavity
represented 10y the largest spot on the
sun is sufficient 90 take i'm the whole
of our planet without touching the
sides
-ALrHAHErs vary greatly in the num-
Der Of letters they contain. That Of
Hawaii has twelve. while tine Tartariau
IS made up Of two hundred and two
characters
MoHE than forty million young trees.
10 IS officially reported. have been
planted i'm Switzerland iu the last
seven years in the effort 10 "reforest''
that country.
THfHE is "a society in Calcutta. India.
which has for its object the giving Of
food and shelter 90 old, useless cows
and horses that would otherwise bc
left e. starvc.
IuE transparent crvstl. from which
imitation diamonds are mude .4 called
'strnss from its inventor 90 German
jeweler who lived 600 The first haIf of the
present century.
MATILDA ~. one of the most famous
Jersey cows in The world. owned bv
Congressman Joseph G. ~ibIcy and bis
partner Maj Charles Miller. Of Frank
lin, Pa. is dead. She was valued a.
10000
SorrH CAROLINA man. living iu
Charleston, sent an InvaUd's chair Of
bis own invention 90 Queen Victoria.
and he has received am acknowledge
ment Of the gift accompanied by "a por
trait ~ her maicsty
WEALTHY Chicago woman intends
building in GAINESVILLE Wis as 90 memo