Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-02-15
CURRENT TOPICS.


phia Melted about So, 900.
JUPITER was known to the Chaldeans
as planet as early as b. c. 5000
HEBER NEWTON is spoken of as a
successor to the late Bishop Brooks.
A WYOMING caucus has nominated
Mr. Corn for senator from that state.
GARFIELD's son Irwin Med. Is chosen
senior class day president at Williams.
A FIvE-LEGGED hog, it is reported, is
an animal monstrosity of Howells, Neb.
THE stocking of Pacific coasts waters
with Holsters is meeting with great sue.
cess
RESIDENT of Colon, Mich, adver.
tises that he will clean chimneys and
wells
a SINGLE factory in North Carolina
is now turning out 1000, 600 cigarettes
daily.
THE strongest telescope brings the
moon to an apparent distance of 100
miles.
THE Paris-decreed hoopslSirt has al
ready made its appearance in New
York
Mrs. GEORGE DREW BARRYMoRE has
entirely recovered her health, it is re-
ported.
THERE is said to be more illiteracy in
Portugal than in any other country of
Europe.
The Alabama legislature has finally
decided against calling a constitutional
convention.
EcLPsEs of the sun were calculated
by Egyptian and Athenian astronomers
as early as 3S6 b. c.
a sEvENTEEN-MoSrHs-o OLD hog, owned
by resident of Sedalia, Mo, is claimed
10 weigh 726 pounds.
IL Spain it costs 500, 600, 900 to main.
tain the army and only $1,000, 600 10
educate the children.
THE suggestion is made that the ma.
ton proceed at once to the erection of
monument to Mr.. Blaine.
The oldest American citizen row In
public life is Senator Morrill,, of Yer
mont who was born in 1910.
CHARLES A. DANA will be invited by
the Boston common council TO deliver
the eulogy upon Gen. Butler.
ANY one who can pay the fare can
now go from New York to Egypt with
only one change of steamers.
THE hotel proprietors of Jacksonville,
Fla, say that 50 far this years business
Is far ahead of any previous season.
JOHN TRIPLErT, n resident of Black
Fox, Tenn, claims to have shot rabbit
the other day which weighed twelve
pounds
THE landau used by Marshal Bazine
during the siege of Metz is now used as
n postal wagon between two villages in
Lorraine.
GENUINE amber is becoming very
scarce and it is believed that within
few years the worlds product will be
exhausted.
THE average weight of the Chinese
brain IS said to be heavier than the
average weight of the brain in any
other race.
The pin is no new continuance. They
are found among the mummies OF
Egypt and in the prehistoric caves OF
Switzerland.
The use of ornamental terra Gotta rs
a building material has increased
greatly in New York city during the
past ten years.
THE pastor of Sedalia, Mo, church
a1vertises good music and short ser.
mons, with the result that his church
is always filed.
a STEEL chimney has been built in
Chicago which, il is said, is $50 feet
high, with an outside diameter of nine
feet five inches.
The Mount Blanc observatory is prac-
tically complete, and win be placed in
position as soon as the parts can be car
ried 70 the summit
AMoNG the estates left by persons
who died in Vienna intestate and
whose heirs have not been found, is one
consisting OF an opera-glass
A PHILADELPHIA minister manifolds
his sermons and sends them 70 those
members of his congregation whose
absence ne notes during service.
Mn PowERs, an advertisement vyri-
ter for a cod liver oil company. earned
so, coo the same year that W d. How
ellis received SIS, 600 from a great maya
zine
THE khedive Of Egypt uses a type
writer. and is so pleased with the i'm
strument that 10 is said he has CON
ferred ,he honor OF the Mcjidic on the
inventor
The federal and cantonal authorities
o. Switzerland will shortly begin prep
arations for the art and industrial cxpo-
Eition % Zoe held in the autumn OF 1896
az Geuevn
IT is said fee win be higher next sum-
mer because 30 was more expensive TO
cut during the very cold weather.
Nothing seems 90 work iu the consun-
crs' interest
MAXINE -isHoyNE, Frenchman.
drives through the streets Of Paris i'm
conveyance propelled by electricity SELL
ing revolutionary fried potatoes" 20
she Parisians
A BEAR recently chased n West vir-
Rinia boy and the lad only made his
escape, it SIS reported. by crossing the
river on the ice. jumping from block 90
block
THE Bcllefoute Pa.) furnace. which
has been idle two years. win resume
about March j. The Bellefoute glass
works viii also be blown in. Employ.
ment viii be opened for nearly j. 900
men
WM HEADtEr, Of Union City. Erie
county. Pa, bias taught school in that
vicinity for forty-cight consecutive
terms and IS still teaching lie is per
sonaly known % nearly every man iu
the county
iF the sun were 90 be- represented bv
globe two feet in diameter. the earth
would Dc represented overwhelmingly