Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-03-11
CURRENT TOPICS.


form.
YvETTE GUILBERr has given up cy-
cling because it causes her to forget
things.
TIE population of Newfoundland has
Increased from 10, 200 in l7s6 TO zoe 900
n 1891.
MISS BRApDoN was at one time an
actress. playing small parts in the
provinces
ALL the Western Union messenger
boys in Lexington are TO be equipped
with bicycles.
THERE is to be a trans Mississippi
and international exposition" held at
Omaha in 1S9s.
The Chicago university is making an
effort to secure Padcrcwslii for its con-
servatory of Music.
ALEXANDER FERGUSON and his sister,
of Frankfort, Ind, are aged respective
ly 103 and 107 years.
Mr.. Uni, the new ambassador to
Germany, pronounces his name as If il
were spelled "Yule."
THE Lake Superior ice crop is now
excellent. Up to February l2 there had
not been an inch cut
SWAPPING horses on the streets in
Kentucky is prohibited in bill now
before the state Legislature.
A COPY of Audybon's Birds of Amer
ica," with hand-painted plates, has
been sold in New York for 81, 500.
transforming was gracefully recog-
nized in Holton, Kan, the other day,
when the opera house" was sold for a
livery stable barn.
Dr. CARL PETERS, the African ex-
plorer, will undertake new explora-
ton of Samolilan d in the interests of
wealthy Americans.
MAYOR SWIFT, of Chicago, H., is mr.
ranging for 500, 200 subscription to
defray the cost of the Southern States
exposition in that city.
A KANSAS editor calls every man who
pays a year in advance colonel" six
months, major" three months, cap
tain" the others "Mr"
THEY have had church squabble in
East Winthrop, Me, and out of it there
has actually grown glorious revival,
with 40 hopeful conversions.
MAINE paid last year 81, CO., in boun-
ties for seals caught in the waters off
the coast of the state. The bounty is
for the benefit of the fishermen.
THE house in which Andrew Jack
son had his headquarters during the
period including the battle of New Or
leans was burned to the ground the
other day.
VERONA is pretty old Maine town,
but it never had a clergyman, a lawyer.
or doctor living in its limits. and it is
the only town in Maine that has no
post Office.
JUST now there is no name more un-
popular in the Isle of Wight than that
of the German emperor The only
name that they give him there is 'Blus-
tering Bill"
A POLISH woman, 104 years old. who
saw the march of Napoleon and his
army into Russia in 1912 and the terri
bic retreat of the survivors, is living at
Shamokin, Pa.
GEORGE MEREDITH delights in the &C.
centricities of costume permitted to
genius, and on all possible occasions
revels in the luxury of flannel shirt
and corduroys.
A TELEPHONE has been placed in the
Norfolk (Ct) Congregational church.
and those who are unable to attend
church will be able to listen TO the scry-
ices at their homes.
SIR JOHN MILLAIs' first picture was
purchased by Charles Reade. the Eng
lish novelist. Rustin said that IL was
not a failure. but n fiasco, and kicked
hole in the picture.
THE Chicago common council coIp nit
tee on schools has frowned on so-called
''fads" and proposes to make clean
81 900, 900 cut in the running expenses
of she school system.
The Authors club of New York has
lost several prominent members by
death recently-namely Prof Boycscn,
Col. Thomas +. Knox, Eugene Field
and Edgar Willis Nye.
a GROVE Of antique oak has been die
covered in New Madrid county. Mis-
souri,. Heretofore this valuable ma
terial has been produced almost exclu.
hivcly in northern Minnesota.
At Grenoble. the seat Of the glove
trade in France. statue has been
erected 20 the memory Of Xavier Jou-
win, who established the trade there
and thereby enriched the town.
WHtLE swinging in his father barn.
AZ TURNER Mills near Bcllcfoufc.
Pa Cicvan Eossman. ~ years old. slip
PEG and. his neck getting caught in the
trap loop, he was strangled ~ death.
PAX YONG XIII Corcan charge DAT
flares AZ Washington. will sail from
san Francisco for Seoul ON March .
He will return 10 this country with the
king Of Corea's second son. who is TO be
educated here.
THE Russian railroads are all maxine,
considerable progress toward the suI,-
stitution OF petroleum for coal and
wood for locomotive fuel. Many loco
motives have already been altered at a
cost Of $3.50 per engine.
LARGE deposits OF platinum have
been discovered at Fitted in New
South Wales. One bed NJ platiniforous
lead ore Is n mile long and from 90
10 $50 feet wide. The crude metal con-
toins about seventy-fvc per cent. Of
platinum and sells on the field Tor six
dollars an ounce.
STEPHEN SAuIIsBrRY. Of iyorcc ter
Mas. las given 100000 with which u
build a museum Of fine arts in that
city Ills desire 10 save the handsome
Worcester common has induced him 20
make offers ~ several other sites for