Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

oVV IRISH In Australia.
DOMESTIC servants in India are paid
81 week, with board.
Col JOHN A. CoCKERIIL carried $50.
600 insurance on his life
MARNLASDERs are "Craw- thumpers. ~
slang name for the lobster.
NORTH CARoLINIANs are called Tar
heels" from a leading industry.
CABLE line railroad has been plan
ned to the crater of Popocatepetl.
CONNECTICUT has n village with the
queer name of Upper Isinglass"
NEVADA has two nicknames: the
Silver State" and the Sage Brush
State"
THE Stansill mine in North Georgia
bids fair to prove a bonanza. At "a
feet the ore assays sos gold and 81. SO of
silver.
The big rattlesnulxe at Greenwood
garden, Peaks island, Me, has lust
completed an unbroken fast that lasted
a year.
THOMAS HAGGERrY, IS wears old. of
feekskill, N v, swallowed n lump of
chewing gum and now he is diving of
appendicitis
PRESIDENT KRUGER, of the Transvaal
republic, has been offered large sum
To come To America to lecture on South
African affairs
COMPANY with n capital of s., 900.
600 has been formed for the purpose of
building railroad to the glaciers of
Mount Tacoma.
COUPLE of Middletown ct. } hunters
recently had great luck While out
they found litter of eight foxes, which
are worth s24 in bounties.
THIEVES entered the stable of the ex-
ecutive mansion at jackson, Miss, the
other night and stole two horses be-
longing To Gov. McLaurin
DEPARTMENT of comparative ma
thology will be added to the Harvard
medical school, Boston merchant hav-
ing endowed it with 500, 600.
THOMAS MORAN, a New York police
man, died and left an estate of SIS. 600
winch is now being contested for by an
army OF relatives and strangers.
len thousand people visited the
south kensington and Bethnal Green
museums in London on the first Sunday
on which they were thrown open.
TIKI most ancient lock of whose form
and construction there is any certain
~
been in use upward of 1000 years.
GERMAN journalist has invented An
electric whip for the purpose of train
ing wild animals. The sting of the
new whip is said to be very effective.
THREE new industrial plants are be-
ing put up in Birmingham. Ala. They
are bolt and nut works, a snuff and to-
bacco factory and cotton seed oil mill.
r. Il. HovEY, the tennis champion OF
the United States, was married TO Miss
Sara Sanborn at Newton Center. Mass.
by RSv. DIR. Alvah Hovey, on April 90
DURING the last year ~. 245. 295 coins
were struck at the Australian mint
the gold ones being valued at e. 500 .
625. the silver G1, 1876, 16S and the bronze
94O,995.
OXFoBD and Cambridge have now
rowed together a little more than 233
miles in races, Oxford being about a
third OF mile TO the good in the total
distance
IHE discovery Of human skull in a
good state Of preservation by well dig
gers at depth Of 40 feet beneath a
solid, four-foot vein of coal is attract.
ing good deal of attention at Dickin-
son, n. D.
THE quantity Of bananas Skinned
from West Indian and ad accent ports
into the United States now amounts
to 1900. 900 or l.. 900. 900 punches an
nually, valued at considerably over
S2O, 900. 900.
OSE Of the Candidates for Office in
sumter county. 5. C., has painted his
buggy silver hue 20 show his views
on the financial question. One does
not have % ask where he stands after
seeing that team.
joins W MACKAY has awarded a con-
tract for mausOleum 90 cost s2s5 OOg
20 he erected over the remains Of his
son. who was killed in France by fall
from a horse. a Louisville firm So.
cured the contract
A INV HAVEN young lady has a 70.
markable throat She has n vbistlir,
iarynV and can whistle without the ne.
OF heT lips. Few cases OF this kind are
ever known.
j. DEBAETH SHORE whose death is
announced iu or Angeles. was one ~
The best known yiticuIfurisfs 81, Tho
world. lie leaves among other rr,,,,.
erty vineyard Of 900 acres included
an his big ranch Of 10000 acres
a boCroEs ulster has been DESIGNED
the lining Of which is fitted With /,
maze Of pockets adapted for tine r.c.r,
.'on of the hundred and one surgical
inStruments and drugs with which a
physician is obliged g., be provided.
a THoRNDIEE Mass young man has
a young kitten which is quite a curl
osity. 70 has two distinct bodies. eight
legs, no tail. and a head which looks
strangely human.
NINE new companies are seeking adj
mission 60 the Mississippi state guard .
but II is doubtful whether or not they
viii be taken in, owing 70 the small.
ness II the military appropriation.
a rcREioSER has invented tele-
phunic gear that can be carried with
ease on soldiers back IN lieu OF q
knapsaciS u combines the indispens,s-
bic qualities 81 simplicity. lightness
~ 1itF ~ rapiditg Of Installation.