Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-08-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

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ONE-HALF of the wealth of Britain is
IN the possession Of 1000 individuals.
The inhabitants of the United King.
dom post 100000 letters, etc, each
week.
OVER 100000 species of animals have
been described by naturalists up to the
present date.
should weigh IS pounds to every foot
of his height.
BARONESS DE HRsCu has donated
$4,000 to the Rous memorial fund in
memory of her late husband, Baron de
Hirsch.
NINE. MoDJEsKA has 600 hives of Ital.
ian beens on her beautiful California
ranch, and lives in clover. so to speak
all the time.
ANDREW ". CALVERT, of Indiana,
has been given regular appointment
as first-claSs clerk in the post office
department
JUSTICE got n cross-eved view of the
situation, when New York man with
Ii wives was sent to the penitentiarv
for one year.
THERE are 100000 bicycles in use n
France, each of which pays tax of
Sl.93. a great many American ma
chimes are imported.
The eminent physician. Sir William
Daily, has recorded that sudden
fright will frequently cause permanent
and complete deafness, especially in
children.
Mrs. ARTHUR JACKSON. of Sheffield.
Eng. has just presented So. 600 to the
Sheffield school of medicine To cndow Il
chair of anatomy to be named after her
late husband.
a SMALL. piece of candle may be made
to burn all night by putting finely
powdered salt on it until it reaches the
black part of the wick. A small. even
light may bc kept in this way.
n YOUNG woman who descended from
balloon with parachute at Cardiff
recently was carried out into the Brit
1sh channel and smothcrcd in the soft
mud In which she came down.
THE queen of Portugal, the most
beautiful crowned head in Europc. has
taken Roentgen photographs of the
waists of her court ladies to demon
stratc the evils of tight lacing
The contract for carrying the United
Tenn, and from jamestown to Rrrby.
Tenn, has been awarded to j. u.
Franklin 1T his bid of SIP. 20 and s3lo
per annum.
WHEN Goethe was first in love ne
carved upon tree in q nciChborinr
forest couple of hearts united bv a
scroll, and little later received =
sound thrashing from the forester for.
damaging the tree
QUEEN VICTORIA is interested in many
reforms. She IS at present trying to
convert the Prince OF Wales TO the be-
lief that the docking of his horses tails
Is a barbarous custom. and will soon be
entirely ont of style.
HARDNESS HIRsCH is ccntinuinp tho
philanthropic enterprises of her late
husband. She has just given 500. coo. -
600 to his scheme providing for the i'm
migration of INDECENT Jews from Rus
sia to the Argentine Republic.
EDWIN LORD WEEKS. the American
artist who was appointed a chevalier
OF the Legion or Honor of France re.
Gently, is Bostonian. but his home
has been in Paris for the past 20 wears
lie Is as great traveller as a painter.
WOMEN and innocent children are
suffering untold aponics at the hands
OF the Japanese in the Alohammedan
rebellion, which is raging in Kansu.
Three thousand women and their
daughters have been sold into slavery.
IHE president of the New York
Hereln asks the city TO permit the
hneiPp cure people TO have the use of
one OF the public parks. the Kncipu,
treatment, consisting in walL<ine,
about barefooted in wet grass and
water
1HE recent torrid weather is renort-
ed TO have killed the army worms
VAlch were devastating crops in some
70 sections OF the country. The loss 10
FARMERS IN New York from this pest +,
put at $4,000, and in Massachusetts
ut $500. 900.
or oil the athletic exercises. the ver-z
best Is digging. There is no aid 70
dlgestion no cure for the blues. no
recipe for a good nights -'ccp nj,
quietus for worried brain or nerves ia
match an hour at honest digging ono,
or twice day.
BAEoNL GAurIrILE Poss,r.vtf. b,s
passed an examination as J,..f,.- -
medicine IN Vienna. She ha, received
great praise from the professor. f,.-
excellence of her work The Harorc..
passed "a similar examination some ttr-.
a1O in Switzerland
IHE lord chancellor is the opI, NOM.
Der Of the British cabinet who is mot
allowed 20 go outside OF Great Britain.
lnis is because no must have tb. great
seal IN h.- personal custody. and ~,
take the great seal outside Of Great
Britain would be- an act OF hign f-ca.
son.
lT is rumOred among the swell set s,t
Newport that the next interoatiora1
marriage 800 tho 500 will bc thatof Mic
May Van Allen, daughter Of i. j. Van
Allen, % the duke Of Manchestc-. now
approaching his twentieth bi-tbday
who rs coming here 20 wed an beiress
inc oukcdom being "dreadfuIlv poor
WALKING backward is the latest nc
destriaB feat for a wager vogpg
Belgian recently walked from Ant
werp 70 Brussels in two DAYS. goin,
backward the whole time Prao. ice
made him progress as rapidly as boz
the ordinary mode o. walking bpt NJ,
was Obliged 20 wear special shoes. with
q kind Of heel underneath the toe
A GIANT on exhibition ira Lond,,
stands eight feet two inches In hciyb+
and weighs Ss6 pounds. lie is y veare