Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-09-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

ONO miners want the lease system
abolished.
STRAWBERRIES are sold by the pound
in Scotland.
AT Buenos Ayres 1000 men have
struck for eight hours.
SHEPHERD, Tex, has highly sue
cessful Bellamy colony.
IHE uneNplored area of Canada is es-
timated at 1000, 900 square miles.
ONLY 116 divorces have been granted
In Canada during the last 20 years
FIFTY-Two per cent. of the United
States population is engaged in farm
ing.
No one can breathe at greater
height than seven miles from the
earth.
ABOUT twice as much power is re-
quired to stop an express train as to
start one
A cUT-RATE war has enabled Des
Moines people to get 10 loaves of bread
for a quarter.
HE past year has been the most
profitable one for English railroads for
many years past.
CELERY coffee is new drink. 1t is
said TO add renewed strength to the
brain and nerve.
A New YORK walters union re snsed
to admit to membership a waiter who
was not "A citizen.
A MAN in Pittsburgh put all his saw
tngs into currency, hid the money in
IN old sock and goat ate it up.
PRINCE BISMARCK is reported in bad
health, having become much more
feeble within the past six months.
Cor. CUAs q b,. L.o,, -.
pointed quartermaster general of the
army, vice Gen. Batchelder, retired.
THE main topic of discussion in Lon
don is the Cretan insurrection in the
east and the silver question in the
west.
ACCORDING to our consul general in
Samoa. the king depends for his living
upon the ladies of the court" who
take in washing.
IT is now the fashion among the
stock brokers in London to go about
without any hats, carrying however,
an umbrella over the head.
Mrs. KATE Roach, the president of
the South Carolina w. c. T. u, is the
youngest state president in the organ
liza ton, being only ~ years old.
A BHL-PosTING machine, which sticks
Di4iS Oh walls even SO nlgn as % feet,
without the use of ladder or paste pot,
rs doing successful work in Europe
A BIG colonial scandal involving the
reputation of Won Puttkamer, the gov
ernor of the Cameroons is now in full
blast. and Won Puttkamer has been or
dered to Berlin to stand trial
LEVI RRANsHAw, of Killinglv. is a
French Canadian, who was 90 years
old for t,-
of Al children by three wives. and all
the children but one are alive
TIRE London Chronicle asserts that
1T learns that England and Russia are
on the point of an agreement to save
both Armenia and Crete from Turkish
oppression without disturbing the
peace of Europe.
IT is reported that the shah of Persia
has selected as his family physician DR.
VIM ;. Nadneman, n graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1ssS, and
formerly resident physician in the
Philadelphia hospital
THE pope favors the telephone. and
has it installed in the vatican 1t is
stated that he has gone so far as TO
permit confessions by telephone. but
priests are forbidden to grant absolu-
tion by the same means.
THE congregation of the Bay Ridge
BrOolIlyn) Reformed church is having
erected a handsome edifice at Seconc
and Eighticth street. The material
being used is old granite paving stones.
which makes a substantial structure
and presents an unique appearance.
In is said that the one woman of
whom Queen Victoria stands in respect
ful awe IL the housekeeper Of Balmoral
castle. She has held her position Oh
power for many years and rules every.
body who comes within her domain
win rod OF iron, even TIE queen her.
self
IHE German emperor has $50 car
riages ia his stables in Berlin. OF
these 100 are for the use Of his suite
The brOughams. NictOrias and laudaus
used by the emperor and by the mem.
beers Of the royal family are all paint.
ed alike and are never used by any one
else
ANDEEw CAMERON, diver. at work on
Loch Ireig- dived 60 a depth OF 200 feet
recently. This IL is said. is the great
est depth ever reached by submarine
owing Up till this date the record
dive was at Brussels. where a diver
Pa ~
100 feet
a NV FISH hook has been invented.
The bait holding device is supplied
with self-openinR hooks. which are
closed and concealed at their points
and which spring IN opposite directions
when the slightest tension is put upon
the line. One 81 the chief advantages
claimed Is that when the fish are land.
I'D they can be readily released.
Cart. WILLIAM WnLIsERop. Of the
NORTH German Lloyd line. has crossed
the Atlantic 900 times. 100. 900 miles
in all. or 60 times round the earth. He
has safely carried 80. 900 persons. and
rescued bnndreds of persons at sea.
This IL q secord Of which any man NAV
~ proud.
A REGULATION Of Importance 10 wool.
en- manufacturers In the United King.
dom Il about - be introduced in con.
nsetion with the Royal Irish eonstabu
lazy. The material for the making o.
Rrsat-coats supplied 30 the men Of that
eorcs viii, In future. b. Of Irish manu-.
factrre, II possible