Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-09-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

ALEXANDER Mss Is IN JAN IN btddc-
ford for lodging y board bill.
GEoRGE CRoppER colorcd. OF Jefrer.
Son City, Mo, wears No. "a boots.
THE sale OF the Bible amounts &c
about 4, 900, 600 copies per annum.
BosroN fishermen have captured n sea
serpent but IL is only five feet long.
IRELAND has the least proportion of
criminals To the million OF population,
300
OVER GS per cen. OF the whole mum
her OF English criminals are unable To
read
PALMER Mass. has ghost that
wears whiskers and shows itself in day.
time.
ITALY has the greatest proportion Of
criminals, 5,ii0, 10 thc million OF topu-
lRtion.
TnE Empress Frederick owns a chain
Of thirty-two pearls that is valued at
el75, O00
CmuDLEss and unmarried men form
Is per cent OF all the criminals OF
france
* 1881 the British parliament passed
an act furnishing prisoners by boiling
~ death.
Two Texas boys, fourteen years old
zach, are walking for wager 20 tho
Worlds fair.
GORILLA escaped from show" at
Polo, Mo, and at last accounts was
still travelling.
NYLoi1rH or wood stone, Is extern
Sively used in Germany for flooring and
ether purposes
VENICE is built on eighty small Is.
lands, which are connected together by
nearly 400 bridges
Tux tax collectors list at Chicopc.
Mass, contains the name OF John Quad
acknowledgements
CEETUL VALLEY and Pleasant
Ridge are two adjacent communities
Ia Saline county Mo,
INSANITY in every country is more
prevalent among unmarried than
among married persons.
oN Lower Broadway in New York in
corner plats, land is worth from ti5, 900
70 SO, 600 per front foot.
FRUIT growing ON the southern coast
Of California has been seriously him
derod 10y the heavy fogs
IHEit are 1900 Americans residing
"a France according 20 the census of
ApfNAk htNh recently taken.
TIM longest telephone in the world
Is the one between New York and Chi
eago. IL is $50 miles long.
A CALF that, il is said, runs down
chickens and eats them is owned by
VIM Raglan, OF Hutto. Tex.
a FAMILY in Utica, y. y. Possesses
n Bible which was printed in London
M 1850, and which is consequently 2GS
gears old.
An observatory is approaching com
pletion ON Mont Blanc at an altitude OF
S,70i feet atovc the level Of the Med.
itcrrancan.
FoR 800 years the paper from which
Bank OF England notes are made has
been manufactured at Lavcrstolsc in
Hampshire.
FoW want of other employment. "A
Colorado paper suggests that the miners
go 20 work and cultivate tho voices OF
their burros
Woops'n.N at the remote lumber
camps in Potter county Pennsylvania.
frequently walk twelve miles for u
drink Of whisky.
TnE New Zealand house OF repre-
sentativcs has passed the electoral bill
conicrring the franchise upon women.
including MHoris.
ANoNo the old patents ~ recent in
vention Is ono for harncss covered
with phosphorcsccnt paint which mnl,cs
u luminous at night
TW navigablc river mileage Of En-.
rope, Asia and America is ttt. .8a miles
The United States has the prcatcst
river mileage t7.Sa5
AMoNo the most beautiful flowers
Drought here from japan is the fra
grant Auratum lily. It's easy of culture
and free from enemies
fMGurENEp 10y dog. large stccr
purchased 10y Frank Lawrence az Glen
hal, Chester county. Pa. ran for hnlf
an hour and dropped dead.
AccoBptNe 90 Richard barker. the
gilbert and sullivan stage manager.
when The Lord gives "a man "A tenor
voice hc takes away his brains"
THr cornerstone 81 O. monument IN
the memory ~ Maisonncuvc. Rr>t GOV.
ernor ~ Montreal. was laid bv resi-
dents Of that city on Labor dav.
THIS cairngorm, or smoky quartz.
takes its uamc from town In Scotland
near whore 10 was first found Tti4
found in great abundance iu the United
States
IT was one % the great Napolcon's
supcrstuous ianeics that the names oi
persons and places beginning with the
letter NJ possessed au influence over bal.
career
QpiNiNF. The active principle 81 Peru.
vian bark was discovered .n t~s1 In
ISIS there were produced $4,000. oca
pounds az bark and 600. g1o pounds of
Quiuinc
Tvs founder oi a new hotuc Tor ,-ea
and inhrm colorcd men Boz New urlran.
~ an old Negro uamcd rhoriuc ATOM
whn BIAS also founded an ASYLUM f-,
destitute cnlored hoy.
lhf steam yacht Fcisrrn ram -t.
milcs against che eide. in New Y.ri
hRrnor. in @ minute. Th.s moan.
nearly @ miles au Haur ~bs s tb.
fastest vessel in thc world
JANIS Fox end William Hrrl,th,rr
az ou CITY, ia. while berr.iur f.sr,
large deposit of wild homo, and
vein of lead which b. supposed h, Ia.
pc iouc lost lead minc of the ~rner.
Indians
Nor since tsts has thsre le.D .v.i
hcat n the Mcdoc and U.rH.I.t. f..
Hieis ~ France ae There ha. trrr Ir-