Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-04-15
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very small this year.
A GALLON was originally pitcher or
jar regardless of the size.
WHEN terrified the ostrich travels az
the rate of % miles IN hour.
CmcAGo's registered voters are A. ,OOO
in excess of the voting population.
ESTIMATES indicate an increase of
100000 bushels in this years corn
crop.
OVER 100000 cattle are slaughtered
yearly for the manufacture of beef ex-
tracts
MARY BLACK, g. years old has been
arrested in Detroit 40 times for drunk
enness.
ELECTRICITY may be substituted for
steam in the Carnegie steel works. at
Braddock, Pa.
NUMBER of Chicago carpenters are
striking for an eight -hour day Mt 81
cents an hour.
The wars of the last 20 years have
cost Russia 81, as, 200, 900 and the lives
of 664 900 men
HANDSOME monument will soon be
erected to Gen. Sherman in Lancaster,
o., his native city.
In Liverpool there is a movement
afoot FOR monument to Ms. Hemans,
native of the town
JACKSON, Tenn. syndicate is con-
sidering the question of building a fine
theater in that city.
SIGRID ARNoLpsoN is to sing at the
festival performances at Moscow when
the car is crowned
FOURTEEN sea ducks were brought
down n Sinula hAt h..
bar Harbor recently.
NINE. MoJEsKA's grandson was bap-
tised in Chicago Sunday. Calve and Jean
de Reszke being sponsors
MINERS from Spokane, Wash. have
made rich strike in the new gold fields
on the Colvillc reservation.
TURKISH turban of the largest sizo
contains from ten to twenty yards of
the finest and softest muslin
'lT is stated that nearly one million
pounds of fur for matters purposes are
produced in the United States
IN bethany, Mo-, a city ordinance is
called for to prevent girls from chew
ing gum during divine service"
Boston wants n statue of Paul, Re-
we're, but says nothing about a statue
of Longfellow, who made Revere inn
mortal.
THos. t. REED was graduated from
Bowdoin college. The subject of his
commencement Grafton was The Fear
of Death"
A CURIOUS fact has been noted bv
Arctic travellers. Snow when at a very
low temperature, absorbs moisture and
dries garments.
WM. DEAN HowELLs thinks that il
would be more to the interest of society
to lower theater prices than to cut
down thcater hats.
THE French government has decided
to continue to NJ. Pasteur's widow the
annual pension of p, 900 francs granted
To her husband in 1855.
PROF. DEAN and other scientists of
Columbia college, New York. will. dur
ing the summer. make study of ma.
rine life in Puget sound
RUDYAED KIPLING has written tn
friends in England that he is growing
tired of Vermont and contcmpla.cs a
return to his native land
The Chicago City Railway CO.. is pre-
pairing to spend 81. 900, 600 in building 40
miles of track in the south and south
western parts of Chicago.
For several years the number of lost
children reported TO and by the New
York police has remained about .. 500
per annum. Two-thirds of them are
bows.
HE Danes of the country have pre-
sented 10 Chicago a bronze statue of
Hans Andersen, which will probably
be unveiled at Lincoln park in June
next.
PAUL NJ CHAHLU. the Africen ex-
plorer, spends most of his time i'm New
York at present. He is no longer a
young man, but retains the vivacity of
youth.
TUE wages of working women in Col
orado are said TO have increased since
suffrage was granted them. But they
10 not yet receive equal salaries with
the men.
The Florida season is nearing It's end
aud the north bound trains are crowd
eel with tourists homcvard bound. The
big hotels will close about the middle
of the month
THE British royal family is in no dan
gerof becoming extinct just yet There
are living 81 descendants Of George
III. and Of these 81 are descendants Of
Queen Victoria.
DORA PATTERSON and Mida Mexican.
two l2-year-old girls Of Alameda. Cal.
saved John Baker from losing his life
in quicksand the other day by throwing
rails ont 20 him
TBE owner Of an ostrich farm AZ An
aheim. Cal, is trying 10 break ostrichcs
TO drive in single double and tandem
harness. His efforts are meeting with
great measure Of success
RECENT sales Of autographs in Lon
don show that Mark Twain's signature
IS worth twelve shiliugs and six pence
Bret Harte's eight. Andrew Langs SIX.
and Rider Ilsggard's three
a GEORGE ELfOr memorial library f.
u hc erected in the nOvclist's native
town Of NUneaton Warwick shire. and
Americans are 20 be- asked to contrib
ute 70 the funds for its erection
MIR W. d. PYLEs. a prosperous Young
farmer living near Mountvillc. Ga.
WINE moving some brick from his ward
nnearthed tin box said 90 contain
1000 m gold and silver. with some old
cOins dated 1912
a SNOWMAN in south Africa" .ays
that not only are the dew. i'm ,b, ma
jority IN the society circles bu, tb,,
they arc 80 numerous iu every 6.ld,t,.,