Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

LIE Isle OF Man Is to spend Hl 600 n
yecar in advertising itself
THE field of Waterloo is to be deco.
rated with tramway line.
OKLAHOMA expects to raise &c. 900 600
bushels of wheat this year.
WIVES are bought and sold in China
and the average price is $3.50.
AS rule mans hair turns gray
i've years sooner than a woman's.
KID gloves with hand painted flow
ers on the back are the latest fad in
Paris.
VERMONT now Furnishes bicvclc
thieves by two-year sentence in state
prison.
A NEW race track is TO be built at
Natchez, Miss, and meeting will be
held this fall
THE duke of Argyll has been in pos
session of the family titles and estates
for fifty years.
MORE English women are married TO
Germans than TO members of any other
foreign nation.
IN Bellows Falls, Vt, the name Of
every person who buys a bicycle is
published in the local paper.
FIFTY two years ago there were in
India only 81 native ordained pastors.
There are now about one thousand.
NASHUA, y. H., IS to have a public
building, congress having made an APP
preparation OF 500 900 for that pur-
pose.
An absolutely iireproof chimney. 80
feet high, has been built of paper in
Breslau. 1t IS the only one of the
kind.
TnE porch OF a temple in the interior
OF Japan has this inscription: Neither
horses, cattle nor women adm tied
mere q"
The population Of Hartford. Ct, has
nearly doubled in the past ten years.
and has increased 50 to 90 per cent.
since 1890.
The physician of Salvador Cisneros.
the president of the Cuban republic.
denies the Spanish reports of the pres
ident's death.
If the Connecticut peach growers
can succeed in fighting off the vel
lows, 1T Is said they Will have a mil
lion-dollar peach crop
COLORADO reports an encouraging
outlook, especially for potatoes. al
though in some parts the rain has in.
terfered with the work.
AN S0-year-old man of Somerville.
Me, who, for half his life. has been
partly deaf, has recovered his sense,
in full, without treatment.
a KANSAS CITY woman who tried in
vain TO make an honest living gave it
up recently and turned fortune teller
Now she has money to burn
NEW ZEALAND'S representative Ma
oris for the queens celebration have
been selected for their size Two of
the natives weigh respectively 400 anv
800 pounds.
WITH piece of string and little
sand and grease some lIiudoo convict,
recently sawed through an iron bar
two inches in diameter in five hours
and escaped from Jail.
An umbrella covered with trans
parent material has found its way into
the patent Office. The holder is ena-
bled TO see where he is going when hc
holds IT before his face.
Two parallel needles are used in
recently patented sewing machine. to
run in connection with double shut
tie, thus making it possible to sew two
seams in drawing the cloth once across
the machine.
BICYCLE and golf girls are becoming
so numerous and they show SO de-
cidedly the effects OF the atmosphere
that the timc-hon ored phrase. the
fair sex if it were not so ancient and
honorable. might fall into disuse.
THAT deadly enemy OF the oyster.
the tve-huger. or starasn. has arrived
IN goodly numbers along the C0nuec-
tcut coast. and mas commenced 10
feast on the young oysters which have
been planted in the haroor waters