Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-08-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

ISStS On forests OF plleS
PEARLS are found in southwest
Missouri worth $50 each.
BY the emancipation proclamation
s,s95, I72 slaves were freed
AMONG the curious animals in Siam
are tailless cats with purple eyes
ELECTRIC tramways and railways in
Europe aggregate about go miles
CHARLES BEEBE. of Dorset, O., has a
cat that is in its twenty-ffth year.
TIE Denmark bikes have stood the
storms OF more than seven centuries.
ABOUT seventy corpses have been
cremated at ST. Louis within the year
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has thus far
appointed fifty-nine newspaper men TO
EIsHT-rENrHs of the soldiers in
Russia and Servia can neither read nor
write.
Two post offices in Burke county. y.
c, are named respectively Joy" and
Worry"
COPPER is believed 70 be the metal
earliest known TO man and first used in
the arts.
FIFrY-oNE metals are now known TO
exist. Three centuries ago only seven
were known.
NEW YORK has found it necessary TO
cover Cleopatra's needle with another
coating Of wax.
WA MILLER, living near shannon
dale, Ind, lately dislocated his lower
jaw while yawning
TIE armies of Europe have grown
since the Franco-Prussian war from
6,95S, 600 to o., PAS, 600.
THE great gold fields of South Africa
were discovered in 1866 by an elephant
hunter named Hartley.
KALAMAZOO has FIVE wells with a
capacity of 1000, 600 gallons Of water
daily. Three are artesian.
A HERON measuring six feet seven
inches from tip to tip was shot near
St Johns, Mich, recently.
CHULALANGKORN, the name of the
present king of Siam, means royal
hairpin, or royal toplInot."
THERE is tailor in the Kansas peni-
tertiary from Atchison who was sent
up for forging his wife's name
IT is cited as complimentary that
nearly all the monarchs of Europe are
attended by American dentists.
A LITTLE black bug has made its APP
pearance in the celery fields of Kala-
mazoo and is doing much damage.
MACON, Ga, has a dog which was
trained TO take the papers for its
master from the neighbors' doors.
Mass meetings for and against the
proposed operation OF street cars on
Sunday are being held at Toronto.
A EUMBER Of Cherokee Indian girls
supplied the singing at church ser
vice in New York Sunday evening
WAsmNGroN state charges $3.50 for
wholesale butterine License. and deal
ers are not taking out licenses this
year.
ALASKA, with its islands. is said to
have "a coast line Of %. 600 miles. equal
in extent TO the circumference of the
globe
STEELE and Keep are the suggestive
names of two bankers of Portland
Ore. They are not partners, but great
friends.
OSE of the Paris restaurants cele-
brated for novelties in gastronomy
serves daily soup based upon grass
hopPers-
A JOURNAL in Missouri complains
that two burglars attempted TO rob "a
house in its town, regardless of the
Sabbath"
Mrs. MARGARET MCDOwAI, "a Scotch
woman. who died in l76s, aged lO8
years, married and survived thirteen
husbands.
A oNE-ARMED resident OF YoucaIia.
Ore, built, during the past month a
house twenty-four feet square, without
assistance.
PENNSYLVANIA ranks first in the
cigar output of the country. New
York, Ohio and Florida follow in the
order named
Mrs Rodney, who walked across
Missouri in her trip from Little Rock
TO Chicago arrived in Chicago on time
and won s.. 900
THERE are one hundred and one
counties. towns, rivers and places geo
graphical named iu honor Of Columbus
in this country
IHE Jaw bone Of "a nastodor con-
tanning four huge teeth and weighing
l03 pounds was un.arthed near Bluff
springs ill.,. recently
SPECIAL AsESr h,SIoy estimates
that the government pst last year bv
fraudulent importation Of Havana
tobacco over $4,000. 900
AS clipping couple from DeKalb. Ia
rode on a single horse seventeen r,if.s
and had just been married vben ,be
pursuing party arrived
IIFrY-srE years ago the biloxi ON
which the Chicago post Office nos,
stand. was sold at auction Tor f5UI D.,
is nov worth $1,000 600
The mayor Of Shepherd.tosvu. Yves