Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-04-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

The new liquor law of New York
rules out the free lunch.
CoLoRED races never have blue eyes
Their eyes are always dark brown,
brownish yellow or black.
DURING recent week the patent of
fce broke the record" by receiving l.
140 applications for patents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER when he first
began his ministerial career MIXED the
COW and did the stable work.
SrAMEsE worshipers hold the sacred
monkey tooth in even higher regard
than the royal white elephants.
IN last parliamentary returns the
population of Ireland is stated as A.
Tc4, $50, and the electorate as 729,4 73.
SILK is the strongest of all vegetable
or animal threads. 1t is three times as
strong as ilaxen thread of the same
size.
The Egyptians used pencils of COL
ored chalk, and several of these ancient
crayons have been found in their
tombs.
ST. PETER was the name of an intox-
icated individual who was fined 81 So in
the Concord IN. HI police court re-
Gently.
PETER CoNKLISG, of Mount Hope. n.
v. who is lO6 years old. has been sent
to the almshouse to spend his remain
ing days.
1T is said that Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
professor of Greek at Cornell. is to sue
coed DR. Hill as president of Rochester
university.
MINISTER of Ceresco, Mich, has
bought stereopticon, with which he
will in future illustrate his Sunday
night sermons
THERE are more than 200 lakes with
In the boundaries of Venezuela. one of
the largest being l,GOO feet above the
level of the sea.
Iron has for ages been favorite
medicine. Over 100 different prepare
lions of iron are now known to the
medical chemists
GUYS hospital in London is in finan-
cial straits. The prince of Wales has
undertaken to raise by subscription the
S2,50G,O 900 it needs.
ALE Canadian colony of Hebrews
founded by Baron Hirsch has collapsed.
OF the original 500 only IA dozen or two
are still on the ground.
AT the instance of Mr. Cecil Rhodes
$4,000 was distributed among Jane
sons troopers on their way home in the
steamer Harlech Castle.
THE state of Mississippi owns 3. DOC
bales of cotton and has sustained loss
OF s25O'OOO by not selling during the adj.
vance IA short time ago.
A DAUGHTER of George A. Ward. of
Omaha, swallowed carbolic acid by mis-.
take. Her father ran for a doctor. and
OH his return dropped dead.
LITIGATION between John ID. Rookie.
Teller and Rev. d. c. Potter at New
York, led to sheriifs sale of Taber-
nacle Baptist church effects.
Mrs. POTTER PALMER reports that
the tenth annual charity ball in Chi
cago yielded SIG, $50 for the cause The
expenses were 50, $50 and the receipts
S2O.249.
SIR JULIAN GOLDsMIDT, who left about
S1,OO0,OO0 to his daughters. has done so
on the footing that if any of them mar
ries gentle her share is to bc reduced
TO half.
A WOMAN has just been appointed as
sistant professor Of English in the Uni.
yersity of Michigan. She is Mis-, Ger
tpude Buck, daughter of Judge Buck.
OF Michigan.
REV Dr. BENJAMIN w. BACON. pastor
of the Congregational church Of Oswe.
go, NY. has been appointed instructor
In the New Testament in the Yale di-
vinity school.
VIM ORDwAY PARTRDGE's equestrian
statue Of Gen. Grant, which is 70 stand
in Bedford avenue, opposite the Union
League club. Brooklyn, will be un-
yelled April IS.
DIR. EDsON's aseptolin treatment is
being administered 20 two consump-
tive convicts at the Connecticut state
prison, under the supervision OF the
prison physician.
Gov. MoRroS, OF New York. has APP
proved a law requiring medical stu.
dents 10 attend an Incorporated college
for three years before applying for per
mission 20 practice.
a CAB shaped like bath tub. in
which the passengers either sit or re-
cline as II IN bed. is in use in Berlin.
~ has three wheels, and is propelled
by naphtha motor.
EDisoNs patience IS Illustrated by
the Tact that he tried 500 chemicals
before he found the right one 90 aid
MN ln ms finally successful attempt 20
see through an eight-inch block Of
wood
JOsEy HoFFuAS. the boy pianist. still
keeps mp his reputation as "A musical
prodigy. and AZ a concert i'm 81. Peters
bnrR recently sl.jDO were taken in
which Hoffman turned over to the I'm.
binstein fund.
ALONG our northern frontier and
across the line iu Canada. honeymoon
trips on skates. snow shoes and ON
sleighs. ice boats and topoggan. have
become Of common occurrence.
HENRY a. FREEMAN. foreman i'm Ash
by e. Vincent printing house az Erie
got out OF bed ~ 90 90 ths bath COON
and fell down stairs. breaking his neck
He served on Farraguts flagship.
ALExANDER MACMILLAN. the famous
publisher. left an estate Of $3.50. 900. A
certain portion Of this money he lef in
trust for his son. Malcolm Macmillan.
who disappeared some years ago ana OF
whom nothing has been heard since.
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