Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-08-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

W. l'tA
The Francis Scott Key mansion, in
Georgetown, ID. C.. is soon to be turned
into n hotel.
MRS. PARNELI, mother of the Irish
agitator. has sold her property in
America for S32 600 and will live
abroad
SOME of the tops with which the Chi
nese amuse themselves are rs large as
barrels 1t takes three men To spin
one, and ii gives out IA sound that
can be heard several hundred wards
AWAY.
MORE than 100. 900 pairs of shoes will
DE saved by the changes in the British
army regulations, by which the sol
diers may wear their shoes until used
up, instead of having new pair issued
at stated intervals
IHE Princess of Wales is an even
tempered woman, who always looks
the same. She has no gray hairs. and
her complexion is still good: but there
Is certain sadness in her expression
that is ineXplainable.
The investigation OF the disaster
which recently cost so many lives in n
coyl mine at Pittston. Pa. reveals the
TACT that the mine was unsafe and
known TO be unsafe at the time it was
reported safe by the inspector.
LADIES in London and the south are
now decorating their bicycles with
flowers The idea really comes from
Italy, where the front part of the little
victorias on the Pincian or in the Sas-
cine are crammed with gay blooms
VENERABLE Wilson county. Kan
sas, veteran, who not only served all
Through the war, but still staggers
along under burden of the name of
Legrand Ferdinand Hortus Scortus
Marin, is restricted to a pension of 81 a
month.
ANYONE can discover the difference
between butter and oleomarparine.
said an expert. If the article is put
in frying pan and it is not butter it
will not become brown, neither will it
make the article that is fried in il as
brown as butter will do
The new watch is to have n phono-
graph cylinder hidden away. and at
the hour and ut each quarter of an
hour tiny voice will be heard giving
you the exact time. You will Simply
touch spring, hold the watch to your
ear, and the little fairy on the inside
will whisper the hour
The emblems of royalty of the queen
of Madagascar are slightly different
from those ofthe English queen. They
consist of three scarlet umbrellas.
which are held over her majesty when
she sits in her palanquin of state.
This palanquin was a gift from the
late emperor of the French.
\ BATH (Me.D young woman church
member who played cards from :
o'cloc+~1Ayft!l 10 one evening and died
the next morning. gave Rev f. w.
OBrien the occasion TO denounce card
playing and also to express the conclu-
sion that the young woman. though in
the church. was not saved.
HAS ScHLIEssMANN, the well known
Vienna Saricaturist, has sent half
dozen fetters to artists and authors of
his acquaintance. writing on the en-.
yelope only Mr.. and then adding a
tiny sketch OF the person in question
and the destination OF the quarter of
the town in which he lives.
SIGSoR MANUEL GARCIA the teacher
of Jenny Lind. Catharine Hayes and
Nine. Marchesi, began his ninety
second year recently. Sicnor Garcia
Is still hale and hearty and instructs
private pupils in London. His debut
IN New York took place 20 years ago.
He retired from the stage i'm 1872
LOCK Of Napoleon Bouaparte's hair.
cut when on the Bellcrophon and sent
20 Mr.. Capel Loft by the count de
Millerayc. with a note. in 1916. brought
$50 at a sale Of rare books and histor-
ical relics. that included also a fine
illuminated book bv q Flemish artist.
for which the new possessor paid
$500.
PLUcKY Mrs Louise Cation. Of Lam
sing. Mich is an accomplished and in
dependent traveller. She has inst
started Tor Moscow. taking with her a
lot 81 nine valuable trottirg horses
Belonging 20 her husband. q ,yelI-suogyu
driver who IL now i'm Russia During
The trip across the United states she
had sleeping apartment in the stock
car.
WiTUy The past few days permits
have been issued for the erection in
: Atlanta. Ga. Of two immense Office
buiN ngs. each ~ Doc eleven stories in
heigh. and ~ cost not less than half a
million dollars each. Contracts fo-fbe
erection OF the buiding, hsi,. baar f.t
and work ou them will Dpvin at once
Nh. AM Mis- FLEIorgE Wru.er
JEWEL. who are among the ba..
known Americans living iu J9hau,es.
barg. have returned to that cit.. after
visit 60 this country As fo woman.
life in the rand. Mrs. Jewell saws
''Take dress. for example. and a-.1r,
you nobody in JOhannesbury need he
whit behind Paris or London"
PEE-APs the most expensive rerfun
is altar Of roses, which costs 200 DO
pound The oil OF jasmine is wort
500 per po1nd; that Of amocrgris So,
and musk si3O per pound.
WOMAN who died recently used {
boast that she had not spoken 90 a ma
Tor over thirty years. and another wa
equally jubilant over the fact that sh
had lived - years in one house withor
ever man crossing the threshold. Br
pfobabiy the bitterest man-hater Z
opecrn times was an Austrian woman
Fho ~ the time Of her death, was eI
pbgod iu deselopinR plan for the nit
mate exlinction ~ the whole male ses