Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

EIGHrY-FIvE per cent. of the people
who are lame are affected on the left
side.
ONE hundred and five miles of rail-
road have been built in Georgia this
year.
MANY of the jewelry stores in Wash
inston have added bicycles to their
stock.
WHILE fishing in Codorus creek, r. j,
Ford, of York, Pa, landed l2-pounG
German carp.
DIR KIrAsATo, of Japan, is reported
TO nave discovered Il remedy for leprosy
by incubation.
Mrs CLEvELAND's favorite pets are
pair of mocking birds, of which she is
particularly proud.
''SNICKERDooDLEs'' is n new confec-
ton which has been sprung ut Okla
homa church socials
III is said that the prince of Wales
succeeded in borrowing $1,000, 900 from
the late Baron Hirsch.
THE Turkish government has strictly
forbidden the cutting of timber in the
forests near Jerusalem.
VICE PRESIDENT STEVENSON will de-
liver the commencement address at the
University of Alabama.
Gov. OATES refused to allow the Ala
bama populists to hold their conven-
ton in the state capital
IT is stated that /, $50 trains arrive at
and leave Chicago daily, about one
fourth being freight trains
PHILADELPHIA's city hall cost SIG,
100000, and stands second in expensive
ness to the capitol at Albany.
CHARLESTON, S. c., has voted unani-
mously to exempt from taxation for
i've years any factories established
there.
SENATOR CUTLER, of South Carolina,
is the chief promoter of new organic
alton TO collect Southern historical ma
terial.
PADEREwsKI never signs an agree
ment, and he has never failed to keep
an engagement except through serious
illness.
FIVE HUNDRED bushels of potatoes
were sold at sheriff's sale in Kent
county, Mich, recently for one cent a
bushel.
The English comic paper, Judy. is
now to be edited by woman, Miss
Lillian Debenham, who is also the pro-
prietor.
School directors in the district of Luz
verne, Ia, have ordered n cyclone cave
dug at each of the school houses in the
district.
NAPOLEON III once said to Octave
Fueillet: ITO one returned from
America everybody in Europe seems to
be asleep"
y GERMAN statistician makes the as
sertion that there are in Bulgaria Z. ss3
centenarians, or one to every thousand
inhabitants.
The Schenectady IN. " locomotive
works proposes to shut down for want
of orders There are ] 500 men en-
ployed there.
DIR. JAMES MARTINEAU, who has lust
entered on his 92d year, is reported TO
he well in body and keen and Ebert as
ever in mind.
BERTHA Rust, aged nine. OF New Vir-
ginia, Pa. frightened horse attached
To buggy, was caught in the wheels
and fatally injured.
THERE are indications of a strike Of
printers, pressmen, boolbinders and
nearly all the large job and book of
fees in New York city
The Soar family Of Ambaston. Derbv-
shire. Eng, have a curious heirloom in
the shape Of a loaf OF bread which is
now over 600 years old.
ALI Of the corned been and picLled
pork for European armies and navies
govs by way Of Canada, and crosses the
border at Nanceboro, Ne.
KING ALFONSO. Of Spain will be ten
years old this month, and will then be
handed over 20 his military tutors and
begin 90 study in earnest.
PORTRAITS 81 Washington were dis
tributed by the Society OF Colonial
Dame- to 81 public elementary schools
in Philadelphia the other day.
IL is reported from France that the
fresh juice 81 the poppy plant applied
60 recent bee stings gives immediate re-.
lief and prevents inflammation.
WILLARD Iyf-. who died in Water.
t"~ u. y. s.. recently organized SYRIA
cuee University and the Thousand
Island Camp Meeting association.
IHT istn annual reunion ~ the sur
Wvors ~ fHe ~uIfaua explosion al
Ficsshurg was held near Knoxville the
"iHFr iaF Thirty three were present.
HrrE tank. hIed with water. fell
IRON tar tnp 20 The TamaracS Mich
shaii fD 'lr bottom. Joseph ~ibley.
miner Hat caught under 10 aud crushed
g. death.
AiffiH -fiN. ra.f- laureate 81 Eng. I
lan1 Doe been .a1'.auIug thc authori. .
hfs n .HarF. ~ free Libraries. against
ihf aanFrr 90 prose Seton Artemus
Narl rplIt have been tickled Win
Austin VIZ"
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