Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

BLAcKNoRE offered Lorna Doone''
TO 10 publishers before he disposed of
Miss ROSE ELIzABETH CLEVELAND has
been for some time living in Summers
Vile, n. C.
THERE are two violet farms i'm the
United States both managed entirely
by women.
Two men in Galesville, Wis, were ar
rested recently for selling salt to farm
ers for sugar.
1T is considered a heinous offense To
ride cycle anv,y here near the CITY Of
ION gntinople.
WnhGAM NJ. SINGERLY has Just given
$4,000 TO the Jefferson Medical hospital.
Of Philadelphia.
THERE is growing demand in Ger
many for American Dutch snitz.- or
sun-cured sliced apples.
lowA's population includes 1872. 347
GERMAN and $4,000 Irish immigrants.
l1s,sss Negroes and 394 Indians.
The cycloue which went through
Usage county, Mo, left one apple tree
out of John Towards 1875 standing.
The czarina of Russia has recently
ordered a typewriter with gold type.
bars and the frame inlaid with pearl.
The largest paper mill in the world
Is at Otis Falls, Me, where thousands
OF miles of paper is weekly turned out
WHEN celery is not as crisp rs il
should be put it in very cold water. add
slice or two of lemon and let it stand
m hour.
HENRY WATTERsoN, of Louisville.
writes from Paris that the more he sees
OF Europe the prouder he is of being an
American
PORTLAND authorities have been
shipping back to Boston organ-grinders
who have left the Hub for that city to
do business.
LIFE-sAvERs are now experimenting
with sheet-iron kite, designed to en-.
able distressed ships to communicate
with the shore.
FOR using profane and abusive Ian
guage on the street, Charles Ballenrer.
OF Bridgeport, y. j., was committed to
jail for 80 days.
IHE rare china owned by Queen Vic
toria is said to be worth 81, 900. 600. and
forms one of the most complete collec-
tons in the world.
FIVE HUNDRED tons of light steel
rails were recently sent from Mil
waukee steel works To Japan by way of
Buffalo and New York.
EMPERoR WILLIAM is short of funds
again and it is said that he has con-
tracted a fresh loan of :, ZOO. 600 marks
from Baron Won Stumm.
The childrens' subscription for n
monument to the late Eugene Field
now amounts to $3.50, and 1919 sub.
scribers are represented
HUGE American eagle attacked Os-
car Iolcott, an insurance agent. in Al
lis township, Michigan, and badly lac.
Grated his face and neck
A NoTARY's business kept up since
1898 from father to son without inter.
ruption is still to be found in Saint
Sauvy, near the Pyrenees.
In the last nine months II 600 DOC
bushels of corn were shipped from New
York, while 10, 600, 600 bushels were ex.
ported through New Orleans.
RECENT Austrian observations in the
mediterranean sea prove that the deem
est spot in that body of water is .. 100
fathoms, or nearly three miles.
The first steel freight cars ever built
have been made for the Carnegie Steel
GO. and they will carry so per cent
more weight than wooden cars.
DETRoIT's celebrated park. Belle Isle
was purchased by the city in 1879 for
100000. Since then over 81 .OOO. 600 has
been spent in identifying the spot.
VINEGAR and yeast should never be
kept In stone jars for there is an acid
IN them which attacks the glazing and
mixing with it has poisoning prop
erty.
REV c. c. McCABE, the new Metbo-
dist bishop, and Gen. Neal Dow. of
Portland, were messmates together
while confined in Libby prison during
khe war
THERE is no part of the world which
has such black record for wrecks as
he narrow Baltic seas. The number
some years has averaged more than
one a day.
IHE longest underground thorough.
rare in England is in Central Derby
SHIRE, where you can walk seven miles
upon a road connecting with several
coal mines
a PARsEE sacred fire, which is burn
. " PAt az tlRules Persia. Is
known 20 have not been extinguisbed
since the days of Rapiboreth. who lived
IL centuries ago.
The first halibut schooner arrived in
San Francisco May Is loaded with 25
300 pounds of fish. She made the catch
on the Cape Scott banks off Vancouver
island in ten days.
PILEs from 100 TO 1Oj feet long are
used by the Tacoma Land Co. Thev
are cut from Washington fir. which has
furnished piles rs feet long and two
feet square at the butt.
THE California delegates 20 the re.
publican convention at It. Louis will
al dress alike. The suit selected is
dark sack coat and pants, white vest.
straw hat and tan shoes
a CURIOUS old law still prevails with
regard 20 the pictures in the Louvre.
Paris. No painting IS permitted e.
adorn its walls until the artist shall
have been dead ten years.
bX-Gov. BorEs, Of Iowa. who seeks
the democratic nomination for presi.
dent, cuitivates q farm az 500 acre
and Is one Of the most prosperous agri.
culturists in the state. lie is yyo,.l.
upward Of $500 600.
A MEDICAL journal sax. that ,r,I.
ably the oldest physician iu sc,iy,
practice in America i- DR.. G. p n