Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
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ing In droves-
NEW YORK has an orchestra of left
hand fiddlers-
MONTGOMERY, ALA, is to have n bi-
cycle factory.
Mrs. ANNIE BEsANr is on her way
home from India
PENSACOLA, Fla, is to have an cleo
trio railway system.
A great aub's egg was sold in London
April 2l for 100 guineas.
OWEN WIsTER, the popular story
writer, is grandson of Fanny Kemble.
THE Minnesota farmers have over 30
different ways of spelling ''chinch
bug"
NEARLY 10000 families in Paris have
their house rent paid by the munich
pality.
Nh GLADSTONE is under pledge to
his physicians never to make another
speech.
SIR ELLIS AsHMEAD-BARTLE an ex-
American, is watchdog of the British
treasury.
A GRAND HAVEN grocer gives away n
bushel of potatoes with each 81 order
of groceries.
TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT of the inhabi-
tants of Cartersville Ga, are members
of the church.
BLACK servants are becoming quite
fashionable as body servants in London
society upper circles.
lT is reporsed that gold ore yielding
$500 to the ton is being produced in
Nacoochee county. Ga.
SINCE 1890 the late Baron Hirsch's ex-
penditures for charity amounted to
about So 600, 900 year.
BERLIN newspaper has published
long article warning Germans from
emigrating to the United States.
THE suicide of Henry f. Champlin in
Colchester, Ct, is the third suicide in
single family in that town within n
year.
THE manufacture of India ink is a
1ealously and successfully guarded Sc
cret of the Chinese, who make il from
burned camphor.
WEB LLOYD, of Richmond, Mo. has
been sent to the penitentiary for one
year and one day for passing one coun-
terfeit silver dollar.
IN San Francisco a syndicate, capital
lied at $1,000, 900, has been formed TO
deal in torpedoes, ships, explosives and
other concerns of war
IN Northampton, Mass, the percent
age of female to male population is
BIOL An old bachelor can go down
there and find an elysium.
THERE is said to be n ''hell's half
acre" in Southern California 40 miles
square, in which every rod has boiling
spring or "A spouting geyser.
The first wool sold at Sturgis, Mich,
this season was n lot of 90, 900 pounds
held over from last year. 1t was
sold at $1,000 per 100 pounds.
DURING last month 3,3l5 immigrants
arrived at the river Platte and 5000
more are expected to arrive. The total
arrivals this year have been Is, 500.
BisMARCK's judgment of Dom Paul"
seems to- be justified. Years ago he
said that President Kruger was the
greatest statesman he had ever met.
AN annual pass is the prize offered
by the Pennsylvania railroad to the
farmer on its route who is most success
full in identifying his grounds adioin-
ing the line.
KENTUCKY has a colored new woman
who is bricklayer and stone mason.
There is also n white woman in that
state who, though ~ years old. shears
her own sheep.
WILLIAM LEE, who applied for ad.
mission to the Soldiers home Mt Lin
coin, Neb., has confessed to having
drawn pension for years by imper-
>ouating his brother
COUNT ToLsToI, who went among the
bicyclists last year, aged 81 recently
applied at Moscow for the permit which
wheeimen need who wish TO reside
within the city lines.
LONDON is indulging in craze for
bicycle shares. The Dunlop Pneumatic
Tire company has been organized with
capital of $4,000. 600, and several
dukes among it's directors.
SKATES of glass have been invented
and are expected to replace the old
steel skates entirely. They are said to
be better speed makers and 20 run al.
most a. easily over rough as over
smooth ice.
THOSE conversant with the seed ovs-
ter business in Connecticut say that the
season which is now at its height is the
bcst Tor the last five years. 1t is esti-
mated that 1000, 900 of Connecticut seed
oysters will be sold.
lr is said that Prince Kickoff. who
as minister of ways and has charge of
all the Russian imperial railroads.
and who served an apprenticeship in
machine shop. at one time worked at
boiler-making in Philadelphia.
Two moonshiners who are in iail al
Macon, Ga, are anxious 20 plant their
crops They promise to return and
serve out their sentences as soon as
their work is finished. The federal
judge Is considering the matter.
III Is said that one-tenth of the popu-
lation of England suffers from
govt. DR. Fehlauer. n Berlin ply
sicign, attributes this 20 the excessive
coPS"mptiOn Of meat, and recommends
more restricted or vegetarian diet.
IHT Texas cotton acreage this year
Is '2O.s per cent. greater than IL was
last season. OF this il is possible that
new land will reach three per cent. as
much colonization has been going on
in Tcxas since the last cotton crop was
planted
InE widow Of Admiral Ting has com.
mitted suicide on the anniversary Of
her hus' and's death II may be re-.
membered that he killed himself after
The surrender Of his flagship at Wei.
tai- WEI m February % last wear and
MS widows suicide will be regarded in
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