Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-12-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

FEDERATION of Labor has gained 6s,.
BOO members in a year.
ONE colored man was elected TO the
next congress, and his name is White.
OVER one hundred gold mines have
been started in California within u
year.
FIVE hundred and seventy four thou
sand children daily attend school in
London.
"A CONSTITUTIONAL amendment has
been carried in Idaho allowing woman
suffrage.
HAMILTON (Ont) street-car employees
now get from 1875 cents to 1877 cents
per hour.
The widowed queen of Naples has
been presented with the Russian Oder
of st. George.
The anti-convict contract labor law
goes into force in New York at the end
of next month.
In is estimated that $40. OOO. 600 worth
of gold will be dug in Cripple Creek
the coming year.
WRESTLING is very injurious in the
cold weather, as 1t dries the lips and
finally cracks them.
A GREAT strike of miners both in
Germany and England is apprehended
by the mine owners.
For odors ON the hands, dash little
sugar on the hot stove lid and hold the
hands over the smoke.
lN ore respect Arch bishop Temple
differs from all his predecessors. He
is the first teetotaler to sit on the
throne OF Canterbury.
AFTER passing the house of repre-
sentatives. an eight-hour bill has been
rejected by the New Zealand house of
lords. by vote of 10 to 10.
PorAsTUMoRTHoDINI is
the latest acquisition TO the voca bulary
of science. 1t is the name applied to
an antisept:c lately discovered.
ILLINOIS factory inspector suggests
compulsory education law. Women
are displacing men, and children wo-
men; new machines displacing all
three.
81. MoRITz, Switzerland. has the
champion toboggan slide of the world.
IL ~ three-quarters of mile long. and
has been descended in whiz OF Il
seconds.
Mss MARION DAWSON has taken the
degree of Bachelor of Science at the
niversity of. Wales, and is the first
Ha'iF who has attained the decree by
examina.ion.
The statistics of life insurance peo-
pie show that in the last - years the
average of mans life has increased ;
per cent, or two whole years-from
4l.9 to 43.9 years
IT is related of Durham cattle man
that he went to Kansas City. Kan and
while drunk bought block of town
lots which a few days afterward ne
sold at Sc, 600 profit
The copper mines of the whole world
are being taxed TO their utmost to sup
ply the demand for copper wire and
the other apparatus used in the aDpli-
cation of electricity.
A NOVEL fair given in New York
showed the unique idea of each booth
representing book, and the maidens
were gowned after the manner OF the
characters IN the books
PRINCE HHKoFF, the Russian minis
ter of ways and commerce, has recent
~ placed an order for 5000 American
railroad watches TO be used by en-
ployes on Russian railroads.
FOR a cold in the head, snuffinp dry
borax as one would snuff will often
give instant relief. A Tablespoonful of
borax in a pint of hot water, snuffed
when at blood heat, is also good
Miss LILLIAN BELL, whose Love
Affairs of an Old Maid and The
Under Side of Things" have been de-
eided SUCCESSES. has now adopted the
platform and reads from her own
.yyFTs@
= OEE of the very latest cures for in
somnia is three teaspoonfuls of sugar
in a eup OF boiling water. Some peo-
pie cant take hot water straight"
bat can take IL with a teaspoonful of
milk or the sugar
PARIS policemen have been supplied
with electric dark lanterns. by means
az which they can sre $50 feet away
They were employed successfully in a
recent rain in the Bots de Boulogne on
the homeless persons who sleep there
1T night
a GERMAN physician says that stan
ley owes the fact that be has survived
The most dangerous OF his African trip.
70 his having submitted five times 90 "A
trans usion Of African blood into his
veins, which IS believed In Africa 20 be
a great aid 90 acclimatization
TIKI strike Of London cabmcn is
spreading rapidly There are now
1900 cabdrivers out. and the number il
fast increasing. The drivers struck
against the operation OF system py
which only privileged cabs are allowed
% solicit passenger at the railroad sta
lions
Albeit EDwAnp Of wales is the
greatest spendtnrift in the world ac
cording TO the London Figaro which
ssserts that be has spent $50 600. 600 i'm
- years. Be has received sg5 900 600
from the English nation 81 OOO OJJ
more FOR travelling expense. and sge-
ciai allowance. and has private debts
amounting 90 g. 100000
LoHEsA. the threc.ycar-oId DAUGHTER
Of Mr.. and Mrs Gcorgc Rogers. OK
Quincy Ill, while playing with her
dve-year-old cousin. Nellie Reddicb
was struck by a knitting needle in the
hands Of the latter infictiug wound
sghich caused death The needle penc.
trated the base 81 the brain.
AEoIHEB case OF a wealthy American
girl marrying 20 count was exempiihed
By q popular Philadelphia belle sorne
time ago. As the Countess Pappen.