Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-03-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

pOlecat farm.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN receives s.. 500
Tor single song.
ENGLAND pays $4,000, 900 yearly for
foreign dairy produce.
In the British museum there arc Mt
present 80 miles of books
MANY honors are being showered up-
on Prof Roentgen in Germany.
WATERrents are higher in Pittsburgh
than in any other city in America
The zinc mines at Messy creek.
Tenn, are to be operated on an extern
sive scale.
NINE. ETELKA GxRsrER, the opera
sanger, is about to start n vocal academy
at Berlin.
MONTANA has an unusual number Of
inventors for a new state. There is one
70 every 1,73S of its population.
The gavel to be used in the st. Louis
convention has a gold plate on one side
and silver plate on the other.
AUNT JANE" MCFARLANE. the old
est school teacher in Philadelphia, has
just celebrated her 92d birthday.
MARK TWAIN has become so used to
eastern customs that he saws he can
not avoid salaaming n door at present.
The cause of the death of Missouri
newspaper is stated to be that lit failed
to bore straight hole in journalism s,
SHoEMAKERs in New South Wales
earn $3.50 n week; in New Zealand,
I16s; in Germany, SO. 90; in Spain, So. 80.
A FRENCH naturalist has invented an
instrument which he terms n "glosso-
meter" for measuring the tongues of
bees.
NELLY BLY,, recently reconverted to
independent maidenhood, announces
that she wants to go to Cuba and
fight
AS evidence of the advance of civil
zation in Abyssinia it is said that King
MeneliiS is Unfortunately fond of cham
payne.
ABRAM DIE, of Center township,
Perry county, Pa, recently caught a
curiosity in the shape of white flying
squirrel.
f. c. BENEDICT will give $1,000 and
Henry o. Havemeyer SO, 900 for n gym
nasium for the public schools at Green
witch, CT.
CECIL RHODES private fortune is now
estimated at 81, 900, 900. He is certainly
one of the richest of the South African
magnates.
The most valuable Bible in the world
belongs to n Chicago man. He bought
IT at the Brayton Ives sale of rare books
for S14, 500.
Mrs. STowE's early writing were pub
lished under the name of Christine
Crowfeld,' which is said to have been
IN invention.
THE empress of Austria walks IL miles
N "a ~, A
ant accompanies her, reading Homer
aloud in Greek.
ADVERTISING devices have received
much attention at the hands of the in
ventors, there being 1922 patents taken
out in this line.
THE baby boy of Amos and Abigail
Snodgrass, of Hurleyville, Mo. has
been christened Dunraven, because he
is such kicker.
BROOKLYN is about to change the
names of a number of its streets. pre-
paratory to being Incorporated into
Greater New York.
SOME cleaners of human family sta
tistics say that man or woman of cor
rect proportions is six times as high as
the right foot is long.
CHICAGO Italians are not going to At
RIGA after all, and there will be no di-
minution in the number of banana
stands in consequence
AFTER making complete circuit of
the globe, 'Owney," the world re-
nowned post Office dog. has returned to
Albany, his native city.
SEPTIMUs ANDREWS, of Arkansas CITY.
who has been taken to the insane asy-
lum, imagined he had "A tapeworm in
his throat and tried to cut it out with a
razor.
GRAY, of Delaware, and Wolcott. of
Colorado, are said TO be the finest whist
players in the senate. They were fire.
quently on opposing sides in the same
game
GEORGE EBERs, the German novelist.
IS one of the most notable of recent
converts to buddhism. Prof. Ebers is
one of the profoundest Orientalists in
the world.
The Sicily. of the Hamburg-American
line, has sailed direct from Hamburg to
Galveston, Tex, and If successful. a
regular line will be operated between
those points.
THE number of confederate widows
in Georgia is on the decrease In 1891
there were 1900 of them. Now there
are only $500, decrease Of IA per cent.
in four years.
GEN. BoOTB's tour of northern India
is said 20 have been one of his greatest
successes. At Gujarat he addressed the
largest meeting of Salvationists ever
held in India.
The bicycle craze has begun 20 at
.ect the dusky redskins. II is reported
that little Black Bear, Nez Perces
Indian, traded 30 horses for bicycle
one day recently.
TRAVELLING churches are 20 be estab-
hshed on the Trans-Siberian railway.
which passes through many desert
tracts, where neither village nor church
can be met with for miles.
FRENCH paste" from which artif-
cial diamonds are made. is composed of
mixture Of glass and oxide Of lead.
kuoies. pearls and sapphires are also
successfully initiated by the Parisians.
a CRAZY man in Philadelphia wants
the doctors 20 cure him Of the X rays in
ms eyes He says he secs the skeletons
OF all who come within the line Of his
visor. and the sight gives him great
annoyance.
THE ostrich farm at Courtenav. Fla
promises 90 be- money maker THO
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